2017 Best of Design Awards by The Architect's Newspaper

2017 BEST OF D E S I G N AWARDS

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The 2017 AN Best of Design Awards was our most successful yet. After expanding the categories to a whopping 42, we got over 800 submissions that made the judging more difficult than ever. Projects in all shapes and sizes came from firms big and small from every corner of the country. While we were surprised by the quantity of submissions, we were not surprised by the quality of the work put forth by our trusty base of architects and designers. There were some telling trends, however. First, the Adaptive Reuse category could have been three times as big as it was, because almost every category received some kind of reuse project. From lofts to retail spaces in disused buildings, the amount of old structures made new is astounding and speaks to larger movements in U.S. architecture. Reclaimed spaces are currently stylish and it is generally better for the environment and local culture when we reintegrate existing structures into their cities. One surprise was that our Northeast Building of the Year, the MASS MOCA renovation by Bruner/Cott Architects, took home the prize. The massive reuse project skillfully renegotiates an old factory, which the jury found to be more successful and important than some other new buildings that might have won in the past. Similarly, for Midwest Building of the Year, we saw a tie between two powerhouse campus projects. Studio Gang’s University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons and WEISS/MANFREDI’s Kent State Center for Architecture and Environmental Design ignited a strong debate among the jury, and in the end they both proved worthy of the award. It is refreshing to see such good architecture being realized in the Midwest, and it says something about the state of architecture nationwide. Our jury this year was a blast as always, with a very talented group (opposite page) that sparked vigorous discussions and refined the way we look at architecture. It is always good to get more people involved in the conversation, and we are constantly shifting our views on what is relevant and interesting. We hope you enjoy this selection of winners and honorable mentions, and we look forward to hearing from you next year as we keep searching out the best architecture and design to award! William Menking and Matt Shaw

MORRIS ADJMI

Principal Morris Adjmi Architects

EMILY BAUER

Landscape Architect Bjarke Ingels Group

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MATT SHAW

Senior Editor The Architectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Newspaper

NATHANIEL STANTON

Principal Craft Engineer Studio

IRENE SUNWOO

Director of Exhibitions GSAPP

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70 THEVERYMANY

40 Bruce Damonte

Editor’s Note

26 Lighting – Outdoor

Jury Page

28 Lighting – Indoor

The Award

30 Civic – Administrative

Building of the Year – Midwest

32 Civic – Cultural

12 Building of the Year – West

34 Civic – Educational

14 Building of the Year – Northeast

36 Hospitality

16 Building of the Year – Mid-Atlantic

38 Office & Retail

18 Building of the Year – Southwest

40 Facade

20 Building of the Year – Southeast

42 Green – Residential

22 Restoration

44 Green – Civic

23 Adaptive Reuse

46 Infrastructure

24 Building Renovation

48 Residential – Interior

I N 32 Iwan Baan

50 Retail – Interior

67 Unbuilt – Residential

52 Workplace – Interior

68 Young Architects

54 Landscape – Private

70 Temporary Installation

55 Landscape – Public

72 Representation – Analog

56 Mixed Use

73 Representation – Digital

58 Residential – Multi-Unit

74 Digital Fabrication

60 Residential – Single-Unit

75 New Materials

62 Urban Design

76 Research

63 Small Spaces

78 Student Work

64 Unbuilt – Commercial

80 Best of Products Awards

65 Unbuilt – Infrastructure

86 Resources & Credits

66 Unbuilt – Landscape

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T H E A W A R D

The 43 winners of this year’s Best of Design Awards will each receive a limited edition signed print depicting work by the influential avant-garde architectural group Archigram. Originally designed by Diana Jowsey, a member of Archigram’s London office, for use as the cover to the group’s eponymous first book, Studio Vista (1972), the collage includes elements from some of Archigram’s most recognizable work, including Instant City, Walking City, Living Pod, and Bottery. Formed in 1961 by Peter Cook, David Greene, and Michael Webb, who were soon joined by Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron, and Warren Chalk, Archigram was a reaction against, in the words of Cook, “a continuing European tradition of well-mannered but gutless architecture that had absorbed the label ‘modern,’ but had betrayed most of the philosophies of the earliest ‘modern.’” The group’s medium was a series of loosely collected papers, posters, and booklets sent out like urgent pronouncements; not so much magazines as they were abstract communiqués,

like telegrams. Hence, “archi-gram.” The group never built any of its projects, but the work lived in stapled-together pages and the imaginations of those lucky enough to read them. The Best of Design Awards competition was judged by criteria including presentation, innovation, technology, and sustainability, and it’s hard to imagine a more appropriate award than a depiction of work that embodies the boldest expressions of those criteria. Presentation? Archigram invented a medium to convey their ideas. Innovation and technology? Nomadic cities, robot lawn mowers, and simulated shrubbery fit the bill. Sustainability? What could be more sustainable than an architecture-free landscape that can support all our modern amenities? That said, Crompton advises we “don’t take the drawing too literally,” but “take the ideas from it.” The work depicted in the print still feels radical, but some of those ideas have already moved beyond the mainstream into the mundane. We pass fake trees transmitting communi-

T H E A W A R D cation signals on our commutes and hardly notice. Popup shops, shipping container cafes, and temporary parks prove that the Instant City is real, it just hasn’t congealed yet. And the Walking City…well, although a nomadic urban lifestyle is a reality for an increasing number of freelancers renting desks and ride sharing, we’re still waiting on actual walking cities. It’s likely only a matter of time at this point. As Crompton notes, “There’s still a lot in architecture that still hasn’t caught up with what we were talking about.” Maybe that’s why Archigram’s investigations into new ways of living are as resonant today as they were fifty years ago. We’re still trying to catch up. Thankfully, their work is more accessible than ever. Although relatively few architects have actually held an issue of Archigram in their hands, the group’s work is distributed faster, further, and more frequently now that everything is a click away and architects and students alike regularly send their own archi-grams through Instagram.

In one of the three introductions to the book that used this print on the cover, architect and critic Peter Blake wrote “When I think about what Archigram did for me and for some of my contemporaries, I am suddenly reminded of Le Corbusier’s Vers Une Architecture—a pamphlet that, in the early 1920s, spelled out visions of a new world …. [But] it needed updating. My friends at Archigram have done that job—and a great deal more. And, because of what they have done, the world of architecture in this century and the next will never again be quite as projected.” From our perspective from the “next” century, Mr. Blake proves to be as astute as ever. The world of architecture has been changed by Archigram, and they’re still challenging us to question our preconceptions and aspire to greater things. This print celebrates contemporary architects who are doing the same. —Jimmy Stamp

Kent State Center For Architecture and Environmental Design DESIGNER WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/ Landscape/Urbanism

LOCATION Kent, Ohio

M I D W E S T

Albert Vecerka/Esto

The Kent State Center for Architecture and Environmental Design is a beacon for the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creative research-based programs. A continuous gallery anchors the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main public level and opens to a new pathway between the university and recently revitalized downtown Kent. The ascending sequence of groundfloor spaces includes a cafe, a gallery, a 200-seat multipurpose lecture room, a library, classrooms, and reading areas. An expansive 650-seat design studio forms the

heart of the program. The tiered arrangement of studios informs the massing of the building, which bridges the institutional and residential scales of its neighbors. Stairways activate the north and south facades, and glazing along the north facade brings light into the studios and provides panoramic views. The color and texture of the iron-spot brick facade and custom brick fins, fired locally in a beehive kiln, adopt the vernacular of the surrounding campus and city.

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University of Chicago, Campus North Residential Commons ARCHITECT Studio Gang

LOCATION Chicago

M I D W E S T

Steve Hall

Featuring a mix of student residences, dining amenities, classrooms, retail, and green spaces, the Campus North Residential Commons is designed as a welcoming new portal to the University of Chicago. The design situates three bar buildings in an urban fabric of inviting outdoor spaces, defining a new quadrangle in a previously ill-defined area of campus. The buildings are scaled to their context: The tallest structure fronts a busy thoroughfare; the shortest structure is attuned to the neighborhood. The precast concrete facades reinterpret the campus’s traditional neo-Gothic limestone buildings.

Supporting the University’s House system, which forms communities of students from different years to bolster social and academic success, the buildings are organized around three-story “House hubs,” cozy, home-like spaces where undergraduates can gather. Altogether, the project enriches the academic experience by encouraging exchange among students and strengthening their ties to the surrounding community.

B U I L D I N G Tom Harris

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Point Loma Nazarene University Science Complex ARCHITECTS Carrier Johnson + CULTURE

LOCATION San Diego, California

This 3,500-student university in California—a coastal campus with 1800s landmarks in the theosophist vernacular—is known for rigorous science programs and successful medical school placements. Recently, this evangelical Christian institution dedicated a large science and academic center almost twenty years in the making. The work makes the school’s vibrant dialogue between scientific progress and biblical teachings physical. The 13 new labs and classrooms are wrapped in insulating glass and

smooth concrete, equipped inside for biology and chemistry classes. A feathered curve of perforated-metal panels extends on its south exposure, embracing a grassy slope where students gather. Conceived for shade, the environmental-screen is laser-cut with Greek letters, alpha and omega, symbols with religious and scientific allusion, while filtered light streams through to suggest a cathedral wall.

“The campus building embraces the slope while maintaining a sense of levity. The perforated aluminum louvers play with light and juxtapose the floating geometric roof slab. It is interesting how the walls weave around the roof column.” —EMILY BAUER

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MASS MoCA The Robert W. Wilson Building ARCHITECT Bruner/Cott Architects

LOCATION North Adams, Massachusetts

N O R T H E A S T

Michael Moran

MASS MoCA breathes new life into a 17-acre industrial complex built in the late 1800s. The pioneering adaptive reuse project was completed in three phases, initially opening to international acclaim in 1999. The third and final phase, Building Six (the Robert W. Wilson Building), is the realization of Bruner/Cott Architects’ 25-year master plan, which continues MASS MoCA’s “museums within the museum” concept. The two buildings, a combined 130,000 square feet of undeveloped space, provide

areas for video, film, and multimedia exhibits, as well as events, workshops, and storage. The buildings’ massive size, along with the complex’s interlocking courtyards, bridges, and walkways, offer the opportunity to experiment with open spaces, structural elements, and connections. Within inserted galleries, existing elements are woven into the new, resulting in a transparency that encourages collaboration.

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Lewis Center for the Arts Princeton University ARCHITECT Steven Holl Architects

LOCATION Princeton, New Jersey

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Paul Warcho

The Lewis Arts Complex, a new multibuilding arts center on the south edge of Princeton’s campus, elevates the university’s artistic life by significantly expanding its performance, rehearsal, and teaching spaces. The complex creates a new campus gateway, shaping campus space while maximizing porosity and movement. The Lewis Arts Complex houses three buildings: the Wallace Dance Building and Theater; the Arts Tower, which includes the Hurley Gallery, administrative offices, and additional studios; and

the New Music Building. These buildings are integrated below ground in the Forum, an 8,000-square-foot open indoor gathering space. Above the Forum is an outdoor plaza and reflecting pool. Encouraging curiosity and interaction, a space dubbed the Quadrangle overlooks the dance and theater practice spaces and the orchestral rehearsal space. As an open public invitation, this gateway aims to connect the local community to Princeton.

B U I L D I N G “It’s a masterful, layered ensemble that balances abstraction with a strong sense of place across many scales.” —ERIC BUNGE

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Arizona State University Beus Center for Law and Society ARCHITECT Ennead Architects

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LOCATION Phoenix

Bill Timmerman

The Beus Center for Law and Society (BCLS), the new home to the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, reimagines the traditional law school as a public building. Located at the heart of ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus, the design embodies the law school’s transformative pedagogical approach to legal education, which stems from a deeply rooted commitment to educating students and citizens on the importance of the law in shaping society. The building’s permeable courtyard

massing, with a north-south pedestrian slice through its social core, invites all into the heart of the institution, exposing the public to its three grand double-height communal spaces: the Great Hall, the Law Library, and the Law Courtyard. The purposefully blurred line between public and private creates a unique urban environment aimed at encouraging vibrant connections between the College of Law, the network of downtown legal professionals, and the larger Phoenix community.

“The Beus Center appears solid and grounded while expressing a lightness and translucency through its innovative facade treatment and bold structural moves. Simultaneously, it acts as an icon for the city and a beacon that welcomes the community inside.” —NATHANIEL STANTON

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Grove at Grand Bay ARCHITECT Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

LOCATION Coconut Grove, Florida

S O U T H E A S T

Robin Hill

Grove at Grand Bay, a pair of 20-story twisting glass towers located in Miami’s historic Coconut Grove neighborhood, marks BIG’s first condominium design completed in the United States. The 98-unit, sold-out development, which was also the first new residential project completed in Coconut Grove in over ten years, has helped lead the rejuvenation of the neighborhood—an area long known for its bohemian attitude and laid-back waterfront

lifestyle. On first impression, the design appears to be a purely aesthetic move, conceived from the outside in; but in fact, the shapes of the Grove at Grand Bay towers were generated by inward necessities following an exhaustive study by the firm. The team searched for the ideal form that would allow maximum views for every unit in both buildings, gradually settling on two tornado-like towers to achieve the most effective orientation.

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The Benacerraf House ARCHITECT Michael Graves Architecture & Design

R E S T O R A T I O N

LOCATION Princeton, New Jersey

Alan Chimacoff

The Benacerraf House—designed in 1967 by Michael Graves, built in 1969, and published widely in the following years—was instantly an influential touch point in discussions about American modernism. The project embodies Graves’s neo-Corbusian aspirations and presaged an interest in figural forms and colors that informed his later work. On its 50th anniversary, after years of deterioration and even partial demolition, the house has been preserved, restored, and modernized.

The exterior has been returned to its original design (with improved construction details and materials), and the first- and second-floor interiors have been updated. The results of this 6,160-square-foot restoration and modernization are more contemporary spaces that greatly improve functionality without compromising the geometry of the addition. Repainted with the original color palette, the house today is as visually interesting as it was when completed half a century ago.

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Aurora St. Charles Senior Housing

Jim Simmons

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Rios Clementi Hale Studios

Los Angeles

Weese Langley Weese Architects

Aurora, Illinois

The Contemporary Austin Jones Center ARCHITECT Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects

LOCATION Austin, Texas

Leonid Furmansky

Formed from the merging of Arthouse and the Austin Museum of Art, the Contemporary Austin is a 23,800-square-foot museum in the heart of Austin. The building presents a fresh identity for the new organization, while preserving and adding to the century-old buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history of transformations from a theater, a department store, and a local art center to a highly refined exhibition space. The most public aspect of the renovation comprises a perforated aluminum canopy that floats 23 feet

above the roof deck, providing shelter from the elements and framing site-specific art installations on the parapet. The canopy supports a retractable weather curtain, monumentally scaled at over 5,600 square feet. Key to the renovations, though less visible by design, are alterations that provide increased capacity for large-scale artworks and exhibitions, including enlarged access panels, a high-capacity scissor lift, environmental control upgrades, and improvements to the building envelope.

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MASS MoCA, The Robert W. Wilson Building

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Michael Moran

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Marvel Architects

Brooklyn, New York

Bruner/Cott Architects

North Adams, Massachusetts

Black House ARCHITECT Oza / Sabbeth Architecture

LOCATION Sagaponack, New York

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This project is an adaptive reuse of a quintessentially â&#x20AC;&#x153;humbleâ&#x20AC;? ranch home dating back to the post-war era. The design forms privacy zones that allow for multiple uses within the confines of a small footprint. The house was expanded by a private courtyard, an indoor-outdoor dining space, and an art studio. All these spaces are simultaneously linked and hemmed in by a glazed vestibule that also serves as the entrance.

Inspired by a piece of furniture designed by Ineke Hans for the Danish design group Moooi, the architects developed an exterior skin of black rubber and recycled plastic (80 percent post-consumer). The rubber serves to seal the existing structure from the elements and the recycled plastic screen forms a protective barrier for the rubber skin while also doubling as a sunshade to mitigate heat gain on the black surface.

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The Beckoning Path

Emilio Collavino

Peter Aaron

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Longwood Gardens Renovation LIGHTING DESIGNER L’Observatoire International

L I G H T I N G — O U T D O O R

LOCATION Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Daniel Traub

Longwood Gardens is one of the premier horticultural display gardens in the United States, comprising 1,077 acres of gardens, woodlands, and meadows. The firm’s goal was to subtly enhance and shape the visitor’s experience by concealing light fixtures and using small LED light sources when possible. The lighting reveals the garden architecture and fountains at night, leading the eye toward the spectacle of the grand fountains and strategically spotlit garden features without drawing attention to itself.

The firm created a varied lighting scheme that gives an overview of the fountain garden as a tableau, while simultaneously creating an intimate space within the garden to reveal pathways, lawns, and fountain areas up close. The system ties the garden to natural cycles, lunar and seasonal, so that the lighting schemes evolve in parallel with the seasons—offering a rich experience for visitors.

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City Point Mall

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Ryan Fischer

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Focus Lighting

Brooklyn, New York

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Second Avenue Subway LIGHTING DESIGNER Domingo Gonzalez Associates

L I G H T I N G — I N D O O R

LOCATION New York

John Bartelstone

The opening of this subway line, promised since 1928, was critically important. The debut of four new stations involved an effort filled with numerous compliance challenges. To create a successful lighting strategy, the designers developed custom luminaires—from bare lamp uplights to structure-engaged lensed downlights and wallwashers—to work within an unyielding architec-

tural module. Lighting in high spaces and over escalator wellways is maintainable by a specialized scaffold system proposed and tested by the lighting designers. The installation reminds passengers of the vision that realized this dynamic new line after so many years.

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Boston Emergency Medical Services ARCHITECT The Galante Architecture Studio

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LOCATION Boston

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This new Emergency Medical Services facility replaced a dilapidated garage located on the historic grounds of the old Boston Sanatorium. Working in concert with the City of Boston Public Facilities department, the firm built a modest yet elegant building that provides security and stature through its solid shell and minimalist form. The approximately 10,500-square-foot structure comprises eleven bays, each capable of double loading and outfitted with a vehicle exhaust system, to house emergency vehicles already in Boston EMS’s fleet, plus additional equipment provided by Homeland Security in the wake of the 2013 Boston Marathon attack. A robust thermal envelope, efficient LED lights and day lighting units, and low-flow plumbing fixtures help make the building energy efficient. Its inherent flexibility supports Boston’s first responders in their efforts to protect the public and manage emergencies both in the short term and foreseeable future. HONORABLE MENTIONS

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United States Courthouse, Los Angeles

San Diego Central Courthouse

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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

LOCATION Los Angeles

BruceDamonte

LOCATION San Diego

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Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art ARCHITECT SO-IL with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

C I V I C — C U L T U R A L

LOCATION Davis, California

Iwan Baan

Defining the museum as a landscape of cultivation, the design of the recently established Manetti Shrem Museum at the University of California, Davis, captures the Central Valley’s spirit of optimism, imagination, and invention. “Cultivation” has a divergent etymology, on one hand rural, on the other urban-bourgeois. The overarch-

ing “Grand Canopy” seeks to embrace both contexts, extending a rolling form patchworked with aluminum beams over both site and building. An environmental silhouette, the design provides identity and awareness to multiple constituencies.

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Jeffrey Totaro

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Columbia, Maryland

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Elmhurst Community Library ARCHITECT Marpillero Pollak Architects

C I V I C — E D U C A T I O N A L

LOCATION Queens, New York

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With over 80,000 users speaking more than 57 languages, Elmhurst is the second-busiest circulating library of the 64 in Queens Library’s network. The building’s massing maximizes the impact of an existing community park and highlights the civic role of two reading rooms that emit a welcoming glow after sunset. The main circulation spine extends the streetscape toward a group of trees in the block interior. A system of brightly colored “portals” supports orientation and interaction among programmat-

ic spaces catering to diverse age groups, reinforcing the library’s neighborhood significance. The main architectural elements are two structural glass cubes that position patrons within the community park and on the urban thoroughfare of Broadway. The park cube makes the operations of the library’s two main floors legibile with a monumental stair grounded by a bookshelf, while the Broadway cube floats above the main entry displaying the work 955 Shapes by artist Allan McCollum.

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University of California, San Diego Jacobs Medical Center

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Tim Griffith

LOCATION La Jolla, California

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Broken Rice ARCHITECT Undisclosable

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LOCATION Denver

Paul Vu

Broken Rice is a fast-casual restaurant serving traditional Asian street food with a modern feel. It was designed as a roll-out with recognizable brand identity and efficiency in construction that would also produce experiential quality. Inspired by Asian landscapes, colors, and textures, Broken Rice adopts the hexagonal geometry of Vietnamese tiles, recognizable silhouettes from the region, and repet-

itive objects seen in Asian street marketsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;visible through screens lining both sides of the space. The effect is that of looking out onto an abstract vista of cultural references. The use of color, inspired by the sunset, is deployed throughout to create false perspectives, produce depth in the space, and facilitate intimate dining conditions within the banquette cubbies.

HONORABLE MENTION Wilshire Grand Tower Complex

James Ewing

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AC Martin

Los Angeles

Albina Yard ARCHITECT LEVER Architecture

O F F I C E & R E T A I L

LOCATION Portland, Oregon

Jeremy Bittermann

Albina Yard is the first building in the United States made from domestically fabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT). This new 16,000-square-foot speculative office building utilizes mass timber construction, with a glue-laminated timber frame and CLT panels manufactured and prefabricated in Riddle, Oregon. The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary goal was to utilize domestic CLT in a market-rate office building that would pave the way for broader adopHONORABLE MENTION Cummins Indy Distribution Headquarters

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tion of renewable mass timber construction technologies in Oregon and the United States. The design approach reflects a commitment to this sustainable technology by developing an architecture focused on economy and simplicity, material expression, and the careful resolution and integration of all building systems to foreground the beauty of the exposed Douglas fir structural frame.

Zurich North America Headquarters

James Steinkamp Photography

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Deborah Berke Partners

Indianapolis

Goettsch Partners

Schaumburg, Illinois

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United States Courthouse - Los Angeles ARCHITECT Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

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LOCATION Los Angeles

Bruce Damonte

The new United States Courthouse, a LEED Platinum structure, meets its energy target of 35kBTU/GSF annual consumption through a variety of sustainable design features. The most visible is the facadeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a solution that gracefully responds to the solar orientation of the site. A key challenge was to manage intense sun exposure from the east and west while maintaining the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

alignment with the street grid. The pleated facade design incorporates shaded panels in east- and west-facing pleats to minimize solar thermal gain, and transparent glass panels in north- and south-facing pleats to maximize natural daylight inside the courthouse. This reduces annual solar radiation load and central plant load while lending visual dimension to the facade.

HONORABLE MENTION University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Kate Tiedemann College of Business

Brad Feinknopf

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St. Petersburg, Florida

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Casa Querétaro DESIGNER Design Bridge

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LOCATION Chicago

Tom Harris

Casa Querétaro is a multiple-unit affordable housing project located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. The building consists of 45 apartments and was certified LEED Platinum in 2017. Casa Querétaro resembles a structured ribbon organized to embrace a common courtyard, and each street frontage is uniquely addressed. Particular attention was paid to the building’s massing

and materials; planar material changes and building volumes vary in scale from two to four stories to relate to the neighborhood’s preexisting housing structures. A single loaded corridor provides an acoustical buffer to the vast railroad right-of-way, defining the northwest boundary of the site while framing views out to the courtyard and connecting residents to the exterior property.

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Princeton University Embodied Computation Lab ARCHITECT The Living

G R E E N — C I V I C

LOCATION Princeton, New Jersey

Courtesy The Living

This simple but forward-thinking lab will host research on the future of buildings. Designed to evolve over time, the project features components and systems that can be swapped and upgraded—students and faculty will continually rewrite and adapt the structure. The Princeton University Embodied Computation Lab is a model for new sustainability and low-carbon features, including extremely low embodied energy through a glulam structure and envelope made of local timber. It is the first engi-

neered wood building in North America with a five-ton gantry crane. The radiant floor uses waste condensate from the building next door, with no additional energy required. The building envelope is made of reclaimed New York City scaffolding boards that otherwise would have ended up in a landfill. The facade involves the use of custom algorithms trained to detect knots in wood— bringing the power of machine-learning technology to the physical world.

HONORABLE MENTION United States Courthouse, Los Angeles

Bruce Damonte

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Los Angeles

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10th and Wyandotte Parking Garage ARCHITECT BNIM

I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

LOCATION Kansas City, Missouri

Michael Robinson

A collaboration between an architecture firm and a ceramics artist provides much-needed parking in the urban core of Kansas City, integrating green space and artful possibilities. The artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s process for crafting the ceramic inserts was a thoughtful effort to make the garage beautiful from a distance and to the touch. A palette of eight colors makes the tiles visible from far away and contrasts

with the precast concrete. Up close, there is a subtle pattern on the tile surfaces. The team made the conscious decision for the ceramics to be the only rounded shape in the design, softening the hard, orthogonal lines of the structure. Working within code and building requirements, and collaborating with the engineers, the artist created more than 2,000 dimorphic, stretched-out oval tiles.

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Chilmark House ARCHITECTS Gray Organschi Architecure and Aaron Schiller of Schiller Projects

I N T E R I O R — R E S I D E N T I A L

LOCATION Chilmark, Massachusetts

Matthew Carbone

These simple, dark buildings are approached via a farm road that winds through the town’s dense thicket of scrub oak. A broad stair links a large south-facing porch back to the farm road and provides pedestrian access through the field to the beaches beyond. Drawing on a shared love of the dense aggregation of New England’s farm complexes, the firm sited the studio and the house

barns tightly together, creating a charged outdoor space between them and providing the approach to the house’s entrance. Colors were carefully chosen to balance with the changing seasons while materials were selected for longevity and their connection to the area’s natural textures.

HONORABLE MENTION Capsule Loft

Peter Aaron/OTTO

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

Joel Sanders Architect

New York

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Health Yoga Life ARCHITECT BOS|UA

I N T E R I O R — R E T A I L

LOCATION Cambridge, Massachusetts

Bruce Damonte

The yoga studio is located in the ground floor of the Novartis Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The new 1,500-square-foot commercial space has great street presence, providing the opportunity to showcase the values of the studio and the brand to a larger audience— namely, that yoga is the practice of connecting to oneself and others. The key elements that make Health Yoga Life

stand out are the mentoring and learning functions of the business. The architecture firm decided to translate these three main aspects—community, coaching, and practice—into defined spatial experiences: shop, forum, and studio. Public programs, such as the forum and the shop, act as magnets to the street, while the studio focuses on the interiority of yoga.

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Memphis Teacher Residency ARCHITECT archimania

I N T E R I O R — W O R K P L A C E

LOCATION Memphis, Tennessee

Hank Mardukas

A faith-based nonprofit organization required a space for recruitment, training, and supporting teachers through an urban teacher residency graduate program. The new space is positioned between a large public central atrium and a more intimate atrium—a recently renovated distribution center. The space is made up of three functions: offices, larger training rooms, and community areas. Wooden space-defining elements were used within the

community spaces to encourage gathering. These components act as connective tissue between programmatic zones. At the entry, a sign and a seating detail offer areas for conversation and define the entrance. The client’s distinct use of book icons to express a source of knowledge was also translated into an architectural language and spatial detailing that color and meter the space.

HONORABLE MENTION RDC-S111 Urban Office

DESIGNER Retail Design Collaborative

Benny Chan

LOCATION Long Beach, California

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La Grange Pavilion ARCHITECT Murray Legge Architecture

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LOCATION La Grange, Texas

Leonid Furmansky

La Grange Pavilion is a landscape intervention for a house perched on a bluff overlooking the Colorado River basin near Austin, Texas. The homeowners envisioned an outdoor patio area that would enable them to enjoy the landscape throughout the year. Situated on the bluffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge, a series of outdoor rooms weaves among the trunks of a live oak grove adjacent to a new swimming pool. A continuous expanse of limestone pavers delin-

eates the habitable areas from the surrounding natural landscape while creating retaining walls, planters, steps, benches, and flooring surfaces. The various individual rooms are unified into a single fluid space as these elements move with the slope of the topography. Three large limestone columns support the roof along with a series of thinner black steel columns around the perimeter.

HONORABLE MENTION De Maria Garden

ARCHITECT Gluckman Tang Architects

Nikolas Koenig

LOCATION Bridgehampton, New York

Confetti Urbanism ARCHITECT Endemic (Clark Thenhaus)

LOCATION San Francisco

Mike Campos

Confetti Urbanism reimagines the California College of the Arts Back Lot as a display venue, work yard, and social space. The 73,470-square-foot Back Lot presents prototypes of the Designing Material Innovation exhibition while supporting student design activities and equipment—from a welding station to hammocks. Confetti Urbanism celebrates the diversity of the Back Lot’s many components by organizing them as though they

were tossed confetti, creating a loose yet carefully studied frame for the prototypes on display and animating the site through function and festivity.

HONORABLE MENTIONS Farnham-Connolly State Park Pavilion

The Meriden Green

L A N D S C A P E — P U B L I C

Anton Grassl Photography

ARCHITECTS

LOCATION

Touloukian Touloukian (Pavilion Architect) with Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge (Landscape Architect)

Canton, Massachusetts

Clem Kasinkas DESIGNER

LOCATION

Milone & MacBroom

Meriden, Connecticut

North Main ARCHITECT Bates Masi + Architects

LOCATION East Hampton, New York

M I X E D U S E

Michael Moran

This owner-occupied project is built for longevity, enhancing the propertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s value with durable materials, flexible infrastructure, and adaptable spatial organization. Simple forms and naturally weather-resistant materials are employed In accordance with vernacular building traditions. Copper shingles will last through the next century, showing the effects of weathering without succumbing to them. Similarly, the cedar-plank siding

will endure despite patination, bolstered by an innovative fastening method of custom stainless-steel clips. These clips grip the edges of each board instead of penetrating it with fasteners, the typical first point of failure. The interior walls follow the same system, and the boards can be easily removed and replaced, providing access to the skeleton of the house.

HONORABLE MENTION Brickell City Centre

Mike Kelley

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

Arquitectonica

Miami

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True North DESIGNER EC3

R E S I D E N T I A L — M U L T I U N I T

LOCATION Detroit, Michigan

Chris Miele

True North is a development comprised of nine rental units and shared community gardens located two-anda-half miles from Downtown Detroit in a quiet, spacious neighborhood. It has received widespread recognition for pioneering creative, affordable design attuned to its community. For aesthetic and economic reasons, the client challenged the architect to utilize Quonset Huts, a prefabricated lightweight structure consisting of corrugated galvanized steel and having a semicircular

cross-section. The huts’ placement balances openness and security, views and privacy, socializing and solitude. Each structure is assembled on top of a four-inch concrete slab with in-floor radiant heat, which is also the unit’s finished floor. The end walls feature custom steel framing around polycarbonate panels that provide a higher level of security, natural light and high thermal value. Each interior is unique and designed to inspire different creative lifestyles in Detroit.

HONORABLE MENTIONS American Copper Buildings

2510 Temple

ARCHITECT SHoP Architects

Courtesy JDS

Art Gray Photography

LOCATION

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LOCATION

New York

Tighe Architecture

Los Angeles

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Michigan Lake House R E S I D E N T I A L — S I N G L E U N I T

ARCHITECTS Desai Chia Architecture with Environment Architects

Paul Warchol

Perched on a woodland bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, this home is an assemblage of three offset structures— the “gathering” place with a 20-foot cantilever-covered “vista” seating terrace, two “sleeping” areas, and a dining area breezeway that connects all three volumes. The roofscape has gentle undulations that follow the movement of the natural terrain and make a playful reference to the vernacular architecture of nearby fishing villag-

es. The exterior is finished in shou sugi ban, Japanese charred wood. The charred texture and the modulation of deep facade members enhance the shadows across the surface as the sun rises and sets. The firm also reclaimed dying ash trees from the site and milled them down to be used as interior finishes and custom furniture throughout the house—a nod to the indigenous landscape.

HONORABLE MENTIONS Constant Springs Residence

Upstate Teahouse

Casey Dunn

LOCATION Leelanau County, Michigan

Simon Upton

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

Alterstudio Architecture

Austin, Texas

Tsao & McKown

Pound Ridge, New York

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India Basin ARCHITECT Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

LOCATION San Francisco

U R B A N D E S I G N

SOM | Steelblue

Embodying a commitment to sustainable placemaking, the India Basin project proposes the transformation of acres of overgrown former industrial land on the San Francisco Bay into an active waterfront destination and a vibrant, diverse village. The comprehensive design reconnects surrounding communities with the shoreline, cultivates economic opportunities, and provides mixed-income housing. The mixed-use project creates a complete community at a human scale, with all basic services and amenities located within short walking dis-

tance. It interweaves parks, plazas, and open space with new pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly connections, as well as buildings for residential, commercial, and community-serving purposes. The design also embraces the existing ecology of the land. A robust stormwater management strategy links streetscape streams and bioswales (landscape elements that remove silt from runoff water) with a landscape of canals, reservoirs, and wetlands.

HONORABLE MENTIONS Atlantaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Park Over GA400

The Reconstruction of Astor Place and Cooper Square

Courtesy Rogers Partners, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Barkow Photo

ARCHITECTS

LOCATION

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

Rogers Partners and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Atlanta

WXY

New York

Five Fields Play Structure DESIGNERS Matter Design + FR|SCH Projects

LOCATION Lexington, Massachusetts Courtesy Matter Design

S M A L L

Five Fields Play Structure is designed for playful ambiguity and experimentation. Twenty-foot-tall vertical elements are functional pieces of the structure as well as whimsical shapes. The colorful graphics suggest entries and key moments, without overtly labeling them. Preconceived architectural elements like doors and stairs

do exist, but lead nowhere. Thresholds are tucked under levitating volumes balanced on a single wall. This design strategy provides multiple means of access to any location, allowing children to make decisions based on their comfort and imagination.

S P A C E S

HONORABLE MENTION Attic Transformer

Alan Tansey

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

Michael K Chen Architecture

New York

The Ronald O. Perelman Center at the World Trade Center ARCHITECT REX

U N B U I L T — C O M M E R C I A L

LOCATION New York

Courtesy Luxigon

On one of the most significant sites in New York City, the Ronald O. Perelman Center at the World Trade Center will feature works of theater, dance, music, film, and opera. It is a pure form, wrapped in translucent, veined marble, laminated within insulated glass. The performing arts center includes three auditoria, which combine to form seven

additional configurations and a rehearsal room—all offering manifold stage-audience configurations with flexible patron flow—as well as offices and recreational spaces. The keystone and final piece of the World Trade Center master plan, the Perelman Center embraces creation and memory with respectful individuality.

HONORABLE MENTION Lima Art Museum (MALI)

Courtesy Young Projects

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

Young Projects

Lima, Peru

The Regional Unified Network DESIGNER ReThink Studio

LOCATION New York

Courtesy ReThink Studio

The Regional Unified Network (RUN) is a multistage proposal to unlock the full potential of the Tri-State area’s mass transit system by making a few crucial investments at key choke points. With the creation of new transit hubs and more useful service patterns, RUN will allow the region to develop as a connected whole rather than a series of parts. RUN repurposes existing infrastructure,

reallocates or redirects proposed spending, and fits within the overall funding commitments already made. When fully built, RUN will enable travelers to get to any point in the region via mass transit, either directly or with seamless and easy connections—just like London’s Crossrail or the Paris RER.

HONORABLE MENTION Houston-Galveston Area Protection System

Courtesy Rogers Partners

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

Rogers Partners

Galveston Bay, Texas

U N B U I L T — I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

Maker Park ARCHITECT STUDIO V Architecture

U N B U I L T — L A N D S C A P E

LOCATION Brooklyn, New York

Courtesy STUDIO V Architecture

Maker Park proposes a vision to address Brooklyn’s disappearing industrial waterfront—reimagining what a public park for the 21st century should be. The design pays homage to Williamsburg’s legacy of manufacturing and culture of collaboration. Ten oil tanks are redesigned as community gardens, performance venues, and art installations with tree groves, reflecting pools, vines, a theater, and an adventure playground. The restored inlet supports wildlife and boating, and a sloped lawn promotes performances while protecting from floods. HONORABLE MENTIONS The Statue of Liberty Museum

Courtesy FXFOWLE

Pier 55

Courtesy Heatherwick Studio/MNLA

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

FXFOWLE

Liberty Island, New York

Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects

New York

14 White Street ARCHITECT DXA studio with NAVA

LOCATION New York

Courtesy DXA studio

Located in the Tribeca East Historic District, 14 White Street is a 30,000-square-foot mixed-use building clad in a distinctive patinated copper alloy panel. This contemporary metal envelope establishes a dialogue with the neighboring cast-iron manufacturing buildings through subtle references to proportions, cadence, and texture. Each panel is acid-etched with the very line work used during fabrication. The panelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s angles and resultant

etching vary from window to window, capitalizing on the ease of customization in automated digital fabrication and allowing for smaller apertures for private spaces like bedrooms and bathrooms, and larger for public areas like living and dining rooms. It will be an ultra-efficient building with high-performance windows and a hyper-insulated rainscreen envelope beneath its metal-clad exterior.

HONORABLE MENTIONS Long Island City Oyster

Necklace Residence

Courtesy Arslonga

U N B U I L T â&#x20AC;&#x201D; R E S I D E N T I A L

Courtesy REX

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

Carlos Arnaiz Architects (CAZA)

New York

REX

Long Island, New York

mcdowellespinosa architects LOCATION Charlottesville, Virginia and Brooklyn, New York

Y O U N G A R C H I T E C T S

Artist Studio in the Trees

Chicago Center for Architecture

TKTKTK Design and Education Farmhouse Renovation Seth McDowell

mcdowellespinosa architects focuses on transforming waste, excess, and ordinary materials into new spatial and material realities. The firm functions more like an artist atelier than a professional office, interfacing with everything it designs. From self-built shacks made from reclaimed agrarian structures to objects made with

chewing gum or human hairâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the methodology is very tactile, very hands-on, and very DIY. At the core of the firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s philosophy is a celebration of authenticity through object transformation.

HONORABLE MENTIONS Spiegel Aihara Workshop

Y O U N G True & Co Courtesy Spiegel Aihara Workshop LOCATION San Francisco

Hana Ishikawa Downtown Montessori Little Giant Photography

A R C H I T E C T S

Ping Tom Memorial Park Boathouse Rose Yuen Photography LOCATION Chicago

Living Picture ARCHITECT T+E+A+M

LOCATION Lake Forest, Illinois

T E M P O R A R Y I N S T A L L A T I O N

Courtesy T+E+A+M

Living Picture wraps a playful array of lightweight aluminum frames with digital imagery on vinyl to produce an immersive outdoor theater on the grounds of the Ragdale Foundation. The project digitally recreates elements from Howard Van Doren Shawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1912 design for the original Ragdale estate: low limestone walls, columns topped with fruit baskets, and a lush landscape of trees and hedges

that once formed the proscenium, wings, and backdrop. By reinserting images of these historic elements among the trees and buildings of the current Ragdale estate, the project blurs the boundaries between past and present, stage and proscenium, reality and artifice.

HONORABLE MENTIONS Big Will and Friends

Parallax Gap

T E M P O R A R Y I N S T A L L A T I O N

Kevin Kunstadt

Ioana Turcan DESIGNER

LOCATION

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

Architecture Office

Syracuse, New York and Eindhoven, the Netherlands

FreelandBuck

Washington, D.C.

Cosmic Metropolis DESIGNER Van Dusen Architects

R E P R E S E N T A T I O N â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A N A L O G

LOCATION Conceptual Dodge Color and Chrome Imaging

Cosmic Metropolis began as a single 18-by-24-inch improvised cityscape riff, rendered freehand in ink and marker. The composition grew organically in axonometric format from the first panel and expanded to many others. When complete, 18 panels arranged six wide by three tall make up the nine-by-six-foot mural, which repeats horizontally. The black, white, and gray tones create an illusion of depth in the total absence of shadows. HONORABLE MENTION Trash Peaks

DESIGNER DESIGN EARTH

Kyungsub Shin

LOCATION 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Three Projects DESIGNER SPORTS

LOCATION New York

“Three Projects” is a series of 3-D–printed model-drawings that represent three built projects by SPORTS. As hybrid representations, they are a collection of artifacts that unpack the layered and latent nature of the work. Each project—“Runaway,” “Rounds,” and “Stay Down, Champion, Stay Down”—is represented in multiple, highlighting the various layers of visual effects, formal details, and hidden programmatic potentials. The three projects represent a larger design campaign that embraces novelty and discovery in architecture, balancing precision and provocation.

R E P R E S E N T A T I O N — D I G I T A L

Courtesy SPORTS

HONORABLE MENTIONS MIDDLE EARTH: DIORAMAS FOR THE PLANET

New Cadavre Exquis

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LOCATION

NEMESTUDIO

Conceptual

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LOCATION

NEMESTUDIO

Conceptual

Under Magnitude DESIGNER MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY

LOCATION Orlando, Florida

D I G I T A L F A B R I C A T I O N

THEVERYMANY

Depending on the perspective of its visitors, the whimsical Under Magnitude calls upon different references from the known world; but any of its likenesses is pushed beyond its familiar scale. The two-story installation suspended in the atrium of Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center borrows and mismatches elements from biology, achieving a familiar yet mysterious quality— at once friendly and alien. The piece is in fact the sum of HONORABLE MENTIONS Flotsam & Jetsam

As We Are

Robin Hill

many constituent parts: A network of bulbous and bonelike branches comes together in a Y-shaped plan and reaches upward to form a shape reminiscent of a vault or a suction cup. The intricate, continuous surfaces of the 1-millimeter aluminum stripes are also structural. Knit into a unified system of columns and beams, a three-dimensional subspace comes together as a “shell from shells.”

Matthew Mohr Studios

ARCHITECT

LOCATION

DESIGNER

LOCATION

SHoP Architects

Miami

Matthew Mohr Studios

Columbus, Ohio

Indiana Hardwood Cross-Laminated Timber DESIGNER IKD

LOCATION Columbus, Indiana

N E W

Courtesy IKD

The Indiana hardwood cross-laminated timber (HCLT) project is the first commercial pressing of HCLT and the first use of HCLT in a built project in the United States. IKD aspires to create a new timber product by upcycling low-value hardwood sawn logs that are extracted from Indiana forests. Indianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest cash crop is hardwood, but over 55 percent of each log processed is of low value. The firm set out to demonstrate how low-value hardwood can be used to create high-value HCLT, which can then be used as the primary structure for buildings. This process has the potential to initiate a cascade of effects: positive job growth in rural forestry and manufacturing, hardwood lumber market expansion, forest land value increase, and improved forest management practices. HCLT offers numerous benefits over softwood, including superior mechanical properties, material volume savings, and increased fire resistance.

M A T E R I A L S

Snapping Facade DESIGNER Jin Young Song (University at Buffalo, Dioinno Architecture)

R E S E A R C H

LOCATION Conceptual

Jin Young Song

Snapping Facade explores a sustainable design strategy that utilizes elastic instability to create dynamic motion at the building envelope. The current dynamic shading systems adopt either glass enhancement or motorized mechanical movement. This study introduces snapping-induced motion as an alternative actuation mechanism to control apertures, and proposes Snapping Facade as a

new dynamic shading system. Based on analytical and numerical study, the researchers fabricated the assembly of a prototype snapping facade and validated the hand-operated snapping motion. The proposed snapping facade suggests a novel way to recycle the strain energy stored in structures via elastic instability.

HONORABLE MENTION The Framework Project

ARCHITECT LEVER Architecture

Jin Young Song

LOCATION Portland, Oregon

Preston Outdoor Education Station DESIGNER el dorado inc

SCHOOL Kansas State University, College of Architecture, Planning, and Design

LOCATION Elmdale, Kansas

S T U D E N T W O R K

Mike Sinclair

YMCA’s Camp Wood called on Kansas State University’s fifth-year architecture studio to design and build an outdoor education station on its property within the Tallgrass Prairie, North America’s most endangered landscape. Two requirements were given: The project must survive annual prairie burns, and the work must dissolve elegantly into the landscape. What began as a simple shade structure evolved into a flexible, programmable, and

experiential backdrop for intimately connecting campers to the immediate landscape. Each station, designed and built by students, engages the environment and locally sourced materials to focus on essential elements of the prairie: insects, wind, stone, grass, and sky. The stations are connected by a pathway that extends from a 300-linear-foot dry-stacked limestone wall.

HONORABLE MENTIONS Waldo Duplex

Big Vic and the Blue Furret

DESIGNER Rajah Bose SCHOOL Mike Sinclair

DESIGNER el dorado inc

California College of the Arts SCHOOL Kansas State University, College of Architecture, Planning, and Design

LOCATION Kansas City, Missouri

Rajah Bose

LOCATION San Francisco, California

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2017 BEST OF P R O D U C T S

By the time we judge our Best of Products Awards in July, the year has already been awash in great design, from Milan and New York Design Weeks to NeoCon, KBIS, the AIA conference, and IBS, as well as many others. Among this inspirational onslaught, a handful of products emerge as truly innovative, and we are thrilled to celebrate 15 of them here. While the increased use of technology is to be expected, the ways in which designers have deployed it here is not. Some products are boldly robotic, such as the superconvenient “desktop factory,” Makerarm (facing page), which CNC-mills, laser-cuts, fabricates, 3-D prints, and more (!) with the simple switch of a toolhead. Others are less flashy, but equally impressive, like the Mangrove Reef Wall, a digitally developed seawall panel that can integrate with existing infrastructure to lure native sea life back into its natural habitat. That is not to overlook the simple pleasures of using the extremely well-executed recycling compactor by Krushr, or perfectly matching any color to Wolf Gordon’s Infinite Neutral textile line. After all, to quote industrial designer and technologist John Vassos: “Design should not be simply an embellishment of our lives, something we enjoy on special occasions. It should be an integral part of everything we do.” So whether a product is a visual stunner, like the airy BuzziFloat office chair, or decidedly behind-the-scenes, like Icynene’s ingenious spray-foam insulation that can be applied at below-freezing temperatures, each uses the technological tools at hand to make our lives just that much better. We salute the winners on the following pages for pushing the boundaries on what good product design means in an increasingly transitory world. We are already excited to see what next year’s competition will bring!—Olivia Martin

JAMES BIBER Partner Biber Architects

OLIVIA MARTIN Managing Editor The Architect’s Newspaper

TUCKER VIEMEISTER Founder Viemeister Industries

PILAR VILADAS Design writer and editor

WILLIAM MENKING Editor in Chief The Architect’s Newspaper

T H E J U R Y

PATRICK PARRISH Owner Patrick Parrish Gallery

B E S T O F P R O D U C T S

Openings

Technology & Innovation

PORTAPIVOT 6530 XL Portapivot

MAKERARM Makerarm

portapivot.com

makerarm.com

With their discreet joinery, these unique room dividers are designed to be mounted on an already finished floor and under a solid or reinforced ceiling surface, without any preinstalled mounting systems. The minimal aluminum frame is designed to be fitted with 6- or 8-millimeter-thick safety glass and is available in three anodized colors: silver, black, and bronze. The axis can be positioned at one-third or in the center, with a configurable swing capacity of 90, 180, or 360 degrees.

Bath

Facades

FONTANE BIANCHE Salvatori + Fantini

CORSO Innova Tile

fantini.it

innovatile.com

A dialogue between circle and square runs through this entire collection from Fantini, created in collaboration with Italian stone company Salvatori. The washbasin is carved from a square marble block, from which a circular hemisphere is extracted. The Fontane Bianche line also includes faucets, showers, and handles.

A beautifully designed robotic arm thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infinitely customizable, Makerarm is a factory on a desktop. It offers interchangeable tool heads that easily snap on and off, allowing instant conversion from a 3-D printer to a CNC mill to a laser engraver to a pick-and-place machine, among countless other functions, in a matter of seconds. Makerarm rotates 360 degrees and, at over 700 square inches, its work area is one of the largest of any 3-D printer or fabricator on the consumer market.

This long-format brick presents a new emphasis on the horizontal lines of fine brick installations with its 19.70-inch unit length. The extended shape, the colors, the variations of textures, and the size and position of mortar joints work together to express the modernity of terra-cotta. The architectural ceramic method of production broadens the range of available colors.

Residential Interior Furnishings

MUSHROOM TABLE Yabu Pushelberg for Henge

Designed as complementary pairs, the Mushroom Tables have an unexpected lightness given their all-metal construction with softened, refined edges and rounded corners. The tables’ differences in height and scale are precisely considered, while the process of sand-casting is reflected in both form and finish; exhibiting a handwrought fluidity. The base of each table is more substantial than its top but is mirrored in its form; slender posts change in profile, from circular to square. henge07.com

Textiles

INFINITE NEUTRAL Wolf Gordon

A new textile by Wolf-Gordon, Infinite Neutral is a series of four seemingly gray and beige colorways that are actually each comprised of 30 different thread colors. The resulting blend creates subtle striations to catch the eye up close, while their individual shades produce layers of depth perceptible at any distance. The designer, Wolf-Gordon’s own Morgan Bajardi, was inspired by her education in oil painting and color theory when creating the construction. wolfgordon.com

Commercial Interior Furnishings

Smart Home Systems

BUZZIFLOAT Alain Gilles for BuzziSpace

AIO WALL MIRROR Robern

BuzziFloat by Alain Gilles was designed according to the ethos that a lot should be done with the least amount of material. The result is a minimal task chair that can exist as a standalone piece while seamlessly blending into its surroundings. To meet all functional needs, BuzziFloat is available with three base options. The straight wood leg version is simple and straightforward, lending to the chair’s strong character, while the other bases—a wooden or metal cross—are available with or without wheels. buzzi.space

B E S T O F P R O D U C T S

Combining precise task lighting with a minimalist aesthetic, the AiO Wall Mirror incorporates a mirror, task lighting, integrated USB ports, and a fine-tuned audio capability for a connected experience. Its thin profile conceals a wealth of technology, including a capacitive-touch dimming switch and Bluetooth connectivity. The mirror also features LUM Lighting, which provides high-efficiency illumination at a bright and beautiful 4000K color temperature. The AiO Wall Mirror is available with optional OM Micro Vibration Speaker Technology. robern.com

B E S T O F P R O D U C T S

Lighting

Structural

INFRA-STRUCTURE FLOS

PROSEAL LE Icynene

usa.flos.com

icynene.com

This lighting collection is a reinterpretation of a typical Bauhaus design language, a tubular structure and an industrial aesthetic that create a network of light. The directional LED luminaries and pendants offer multiple solutions for ambient lighting. The collection is composed of a 48V track using the manufacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exclusive magnetic technology for power distribution and flexible luminaire installation. Designed to be surface-mounted as a grid, modular lines make endless combinations possible.

Outdoor Public

Outdoor Residential

MANGROVE REEF WALLS KVdR Design with Jessene Aquino-Thomas

SKYE Renson

Approximately half the world population lives in urban areas near coastlines, with coastal armoring reducing native habitats and enabling invasive species to thrive. Mangrove Reef Walls are integrally cast within seawalls to recreate tidal habitats along urbanized waterfronts. The digitally developed mangrove and oyster geometry maximizes surface area and texture promoting adherence, growth, and hiding areas for numerous species. Ultimately, these eco-friendly seawall panels may be tuned for a variety of local species.

ProSeal LE is a high-performance, low-VOC medium-density spray foam insulation that meets todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stringent building-code requirements. This new closed-cell foam product allows for application in temperatures as low as 23 degrees Fahrenheit. Plus, the low-VOC formula allows for reentry after just one hour and re-occupancy after two hours of active ventilation. ProSeal LE meets FEMA criteria for resisting water absorption in flood zones.

kvdrdesign.com

The Skye terrace covering features rotatable and retractable aluminum blades that allow warm air to escape and shield rainy conditions, smoothly opening and shutting. The louvered roof can be outfitted with LED lighting, integrated speakers, and heat elements. Wind-tight screens, glass sliding doors, or sliding panels can be integrated to close off the sides of the covering. renson-outdoor.com

HVAC

WHISPERRECESSED LED Panasonic

The WhisperRecessed LED is an 80 CFM exhaust fan that hides abaft an LED Recessed Light and disappears behind the ceiling. It is an attractive way to remove moist, polluted air from the home, and it helps to prevent mold and mildew. The architectural-grade recessed light fixture provides powerful yet quiet ventilation. shop.panasonic.com

Kitchen

HOUSEHOLD RECYCLING COMPACTOR Krushr

The Household Recycling Compactor has been designed to facilitate recycling while retaining the convenience of a traditional trash compactor. The compactor utilizes a can crusher compartment that can crush up to 60 cans and a separate bin for recycling plastics and paper. Unlike traditional trash compactors that cannot recycle everything, the Household Recycling Compactor accomodates all waste, making sorting and storing simple. krushr.com

O F P R O D U C T S

Finishes & Surfaces

Before

B E S T

After

SCUFF-X Benjamin Moore

Ultra Spec SCUFF-X is a high-performance, one-component interior latex paint engineered specifically to resist scuff marks in high-traffic, commercial environments. It provides superior scuff-resistance to two-component coatings. It also delivers smooth application, great coverage, and quick dry-time. The innovative formulation is low-VOC, eligible for LEEDÂŽ v4 credit, and CHPS certified. benjaminmoore.com

R E S O U R C E S & C R E D I T S

10th and Wyandotte Parking Garage

ARTIST DEVELOPER STRUCTURAL ENGINEER MEP ENGINEER CIVIL ENGINEER

Andy Brayman / The Matter Factory MC Realty Group Bob D. Campbell Custom Engineering Taliaferro & Browne

14 White Street

ACOUSTICS STRUCTURAL ENGINEER GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER

Cerami & Associates Robert Silman Associates RA Consultants

Albina Yard

GENERAL CONTRACTOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER CLT SUPPLIER CNC ROUTING

Reworks KPFF Consulting Engineers DR Johnson Lumber Cut My Timber

Arizona State University Beus Center for Law and Society

ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT STRUCTURAL, MEP/FP, LIGHTING, SUSTAINABLE DESIGN LANDSCAPE ACOUSTICS, AUDIOVISUAL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, DATA CONSTRUCTION MANAGER

Jones Studio BuroHappold Engineering

Black House

LANDSCAPE BUILDER ENGINEER

Geoffrey Nimmer Landscapes Saldana Builders Struktur Studio

Boston Emergency Medical Services

CONTRACTOR PROJECT DIRECTOR METAL WALL PANELS DAYLIGHTING UNITS SITE LIGHTING

Gianluca Morle, WCI Corporation Scott Dupre with Boston Public Facilities Department Morin Firestone Building Products RAB Lighting

Broken Rice

CLIENT ARCHITECT OF RECORD STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

Startup Restaurant Nama Partners Performance Engineering

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT MEP/FP CIVIL ENGINEERING LEED CONSULTANT STRUCTURAL ENGINEER

Site Design Group Maestros Ventures 2IM Group dbHMS GFGR

Chilmark House

FACADE GLASS LANDSCAPING BUILDER

Delta Millworks and Schiller Projects Bayerwald Contemporary Landscapes Rosbeck Builders

Confetti Urbanism

COLLABORATORS

APTUM Architecture T+E+A+M CCA Digital Craft Lab Matter Design Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab

Cosmic Metropolis

ARTIST DIGITAL FABRICATOR

Ben Van Dusen Ellen Van Dusen

Colwell Shelor Landscape Architecture JBA Consulting Engineers DPR Construction

Elmhurst Community Library

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER GENERAL CONTRACTOR ARTIST STRUCTURAL GLASS MATERIAL SUPPLIER FOR TERRA-COTTA RAINSCREEN

Severud Associates Stalco Construction Allan McCollum W & W Glass Boston Valley Terra Cotta

Five Fields Play Structure

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Johanna Lobdell

Grove at Grand Bay

DEVELOPER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS LEED BUILDING CONSULTANT

Terra Raymond Jungles Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates DeSimone Consulting Engineers The Spinnaker Group

India Basin

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT CIVIL ENGINEER URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING

Bionic Sherwood Design Engineers Gehl Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

CONTRACTOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEER MECHANICAL ENGINEER LIGHTING CANOPY ENGINEER

Whiting-Turner Rutherford & Chekene WSP Fisher Marantz Stone Front

Health Yoga Life

PRINCIPALS CONTRACTOR MILLWORK

Paxton Sheldahl, Silvia Illia-Sheldahl Atlantic Management Group Bill Bancroft Furniture, BOS|UA

Indiana Hardwood Cross-Laminated Timber

CLT FABRICATOR TIMBER ENGINEERS GENERAL CONTRACTOR HARDWOOD MATERIAL SUPPLIER GRANT FUNDING

SmartLam Bensonwood Taylor Brothers Construction Koetter Woodworking United State Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant

La Grange Pavilion

BUILDER BUILDER PLANTING DESIGN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING STEEL FABRICATION

Shroyco Sandy Vollentine SOMOS Design and Landscaping TK Consulting Engineers Steel House MFG

Lewis Arts Complex

ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, MEP ENGINEER, LIGHTING DESIGN, AND ACOUSTICS CONSULTANT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS THEATRICAL SYSTEMS CONSULTANT FACADE CONSULTANT

BNIM Architects Arup

STRUCTURAL CONSULTATION ACOUSTICAL CONSULTATION

Brian McElhatten and Jorge Cobo, Arup Ryan Biziorek, David Etlinger, and Rosa Lin of Arup Shane Darwent Reid Mauti Tim McDonough

Living Picture

FABRICATION CONSULTATION PROJECT MANAGER PROJECT MANAGER

Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates Auerbach Pollock Friedlander Front

R E S O U R C E S & C R E D I T S

Longwood Gardens Renovation

R E S O U R C E S & C R E D I T S

ARCHITECT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT WATER FEATURE DESIGNER WATER FEATURE DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACTOR LIGHT FIXTURES

Beyer Blinder Belle West 8 Fluidity Design Consultants Crystal Fountains

Maker Park

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT COFOUNDERS OF MAKER PARK

Ken Smith Workshop Stacey Anderson Zac Waldman Karen Zabarsky

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The Robert W. Wilson Building

CONSTRUCTION MANAGER STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS ACOUSTICS MECHANICAL ENGINEER CODE CONSULTANT

Gilbane Building Company ARUP Acentech Petersen Engineering Cosentini Associates

mcdowellespinosa architects

PROJECT DIRECTOR CONSTRUCTION

Seth McDowell Seth McDowell and Sam Brannon Construction

Memphis Teacher Residency

GENERAL CONTRACTOR ENGINEERING

Grinder, Taber & Grinder OGCB

Michigan Lake House

STRUCTURAL MECHANICAL LIGHTING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT CONTRACTOR

Apex Engineering & Management Bayshore Engineering Christine Sciulli Light + Design Surface Design Easling Construction Company

North Main

STRUCTURAL, CIVIL ENGINEER METALWORK WOODWORK WINDOWS AND DOORS ROOF PLANTERS

S. L. Maresca & Associates Consulting Engineers Cedar Design Peragine Millwork Arcadia Green Roof Outfitters

Point Loma Nazarene University, Science Center (Sator Hall and Latter Hall)

GENERAL CONTRACTOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT STRUCTURAL ENGINEER MECHANICAL PLUMBING ENGINEER ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Rudolph and Sletten Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects Hope Amudson MA Engineers Michael Wall Engineering

Preston Outdoor Education Station

CAMP WOOD DIRECTOR AND CLIENT STONE MASON CONCRETE CONTRACTOR MACHINE SHOP

Ken Wold Luke Koch, Koch Construction Specialties Rick Mitchell, Mitchell-Markowitz Construction Jay Scott, Scott Construction R-TECH Tool and Machine

ARCHITECT OF RECORD STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS GENERAL CONTRACTOR GLULAM MANUFACTURER CEILING FANS

NK Architects BuroHappold Engineering Epic Construction Structural Wood Systems Big Ass Fans

Princeton University Embodied Computation Lab

Winona Lighting

Second Avenue Subway

LIGHTING DESIGN CONTRIBUTORS

Domingo Gonzalez Nancy Lok Patrick Merosier Rosemarie Seeland Nelson Downend

Snapping Facade

PROJECT ENGINEER RESEARCH TEAM

Jongmin Shim William Baptiste, Jing Jiang, Hakcheol Seo, Andrew Koudlai

The Benacerraf House

PRINCIPAL-IN-CHARGE

CONTRACTOR PROJECT MANAGER CONTRACTOR SITE SUPERINTENDENT

Patrick Burke, Michael Graves Architecture & Design Peter Neilson Hague, Michael Graves Architecture & Design Xandra Kohler, Michael Graves Architecture & Design Eric Pianka, Pianka Construction John Knapp, Pianka Construction

The Contemporary Austin, Jones Center

CONSTRUCTION MANAGER MEP ENGINEER STRUCTURAL ENGINEER LIGHTING DESIGNER CURTAIN FABRICATOR

Zapalac/Reed Construction Company Kent Consulting Engineers MJ Structures Lumen Architecture Contract Workroom

The Ronald O. Perelman Center at the World Trade Center

ARCHITECT OF RECORD THEATER CONSULTANT FACADE CONSULTANT STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS: MAGNUSSON KLEMENCIC ASSOCIATES WITH SILMAN ACOUSTICS + VIBRATION

Davis Brody Bond Charcoalblue Front Magnusson Klemencic Associates with Silman Threshold Acoustics with Wilson Ihrig

Three Projects

DESIGN AND FABRICATION

Greg Corso and Molly Hunker

Under Magnitude

COMMISSIONED BY

Orange County Convention Center

United States Courthouse - Los Angeles

OWNER GENERAL CONTRACTOR FACADE CONTRACTOR BLAST ENGINEERING MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

General Services Administration Clark Construction Group Benson Industries Applied Research Associates Syska Hennessy Group

University of Chicago, Campus North Residential Commons

DESIGN-BUILDER ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING DBHMS, MEP/FP LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

Mortenson Construction Hanbury Magnusson Klemencic Associates

PROJECT MANAGER PROJECT ARCHITECT

Terry Guen Design Associates

R E S O U R C E S & C R E D I T S

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