2021 SARA NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS WINNERS
EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Aidlin Darling Design | CA
Art House, San Francisco, CA
“Conceived as a modern interpretation of the traditional Victorian townhouse, this contemporary home fits seamlessly into the context of the community while honoring the Bay Area’s legacy of craftsmanship”
Aidlin Darling Design | CA
Three Gables, Napa, CA
“Inspired by the local agrarian farm compounds in the area, a series of gable-roofed modern buildings create a nexus for family living that focuses on the art and craft of growing, harvesting, and creating gourmet food”
Andrea Steele Architecture | NY
Chelsea Townhouse: ‘A House for Mother’, New York
“The design successfully challenges the townhouse typology and creates a surprising solution to a zoning restriction with a “carriage house” suspended within this new interior landscape, acting as an internal lantern for the family’s surrounding activities”
Deborah Berke Partners | PA
University of Pennsylvania Meeting & Guesthouse, Philadelphia, PA
“The New Meeting and Guesthouse at the University of Pennsylvania transforms a pair of Victorian townhouses into 21st century destination that completes a new precinct for visitors to campus”
Barker Associates Architecture Office | NY
City Kids Preschool and After School, Brooklyn, NY
“City Kids is a new preschool and after school program in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with classrooms organized around a central double height courtyard gathering space lit by a large storefront window”
Gensler | FL
545wyn, Miami, FL
“As the first-Class A office building in Miami’s burgeoning Wynwood neighborhood, the client’s new space engages and extends the energy of the community while attracting tenants that fit best with the district and the property”
Studio Joseph | DC
Welcome Galleries, National Building Museum, Washington, DC
“The welcome galleries foster our understanding of the built environment, demonstrating that ever-growing human need has impacted our planet and global climate, which now threatens the survival of all living things”
Bernheimer Architecture | NY
1490 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY
“1490 Southern Boulevard provides dignified, affordable homes to sustain the elderly population of New York City and the south Bronx specifically. The project is the result of a successful HPD RFP by the development team as part of Mayor DeBlasio’s plan for 300,000 units of new housing in New York City”
Honor Awards
Aidlin Darling Design | CA
Lattice House, Belvedere, Tiburon, CA
“This contemporary, coastal home uses floor-to-ceiling windows, strategic massing, terraces, and protected gardens to embody the pinnacle of indoor-outdoor living”
Andrea Steele Architecture | NY
Make the Road New York Community Center, Queens, NY
“The design seeks to provide MRNY the visibility, accessibility, and permanence to ensure they remain a vital resource to all that need them by conceptually extending the public streetscapes into the building, providing the community with a truly civic landscape where people can be connected to resources”
Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, PC | NY
Flatiron Institute: A Garden to Foster Interdisciplinary Discussion, New York
“Named after the architectural focal point of the historic neighborhood, the Flatiron Institute is dedicated to being thought leaders in the fields of mathematics, astrophysics and biochemistry; the landscape expands the Center’s world-class programs into a vibrant rooftop, positioning, nature as an essential partner in interdisciplinary discussions”
Dworsky Architecture | CA
Los Feliz Duplex, Los Angeles, CA
“This project is a modern interpretation and re-imaging of the classic Los Angeles “duplex” residential building as an infill project in an existing neighborhood of historically styled buildings, and an exploration of one strategy to increase housing supply and density amidst a local housing supply crisis while maintaining the scale of an existing residential neighborhood”
DE Architects | CA
Greenway Meadows, Santa Monica, CA
“Greenway Meadows is a LEED Platinum 39 unit (114 dwelling units per acre) 100% affordable senior housing project located on an urban infill site in Santa Monica, California”
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners | NY
1271 Avenue of the Americas Recladding and Repositioning, New York
“This sensitive repositioning of the former Time & Life Building in Midtown Manhattan – an exemplar of mid-century modernism – preserves its iconic identity while giving it new relevance, with full façade replacement, restoration of its landmarked lobby, systems modernization, and a revitalized plaza”
Susan T. Rodriguez Architecture * Design | IN
Indiana University Metz Bicentennial Carillon, Bloomington, IN
“The design for the new Metz Carillon creates a monumental instrument at the heart of Indiana University’s campus in celebration of their bicentennial”
DXA Studio | NY
Re-Imagining the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
“The Great Bridge envisions a future that elevates people over automobiles, reclaims land entangled by roads and ramps for civic use in the form of parks, museums, local commerce, recreation, and housing, and makes the bridge more accessible to adjacent communities”
DXA Studio | NY
Chelsea Maverick, Manhattan, NY
“Rising 20 stories tall in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, these side by side towers features 87 condo and 112 rental units, ample indoor and outdoor amenities that focus on well-being, as well as modular 25 foot-wide concrete triangulated facades that play with sunlight, distinguish themselves on a typical NYC block, and break down the 200’ long measure”
DXA Studio | NY
47-49 Greene Street, SoHo, Manhattan, NY
“Much like the artists who were attracted to the empty Soho lofts in the 1960’s, we too were drawn to the buildings’ high ceilings, abundant light, and expensive floor plates: the units of 49 Greene are designed to celebrate these traits and to fully embrace the concept of loft living, while also celebrating the artists that once occupied these spaces by bringing a high level of craftsmanship and industrial materials in every detail”
Seibert Architects P.A. | FL
Hudson House, Treasure Island, FL
“With a minimum of structural modifications, this derelict waterfront home was transformed from a confusing teardown to a modern home that creates and captures views of the exterior introduces natural light through a variety of devices, and enriches indoor/outdoor relationships”
Magnusson Architecture and Planning PC | NY
Webster Green, Bronx, NY
“With 82 units of affordable/supportive housing, and community space for the nonprofit owner, this sustainable grayfield redevelopment connects residents to the nearby park, fills in a corner log along a main Bronx thoroughfare and offers a design vision for the neighborhood’s future”
MERIT AWARDS
Brandon Architects | CA
Montecito, Newport Beach, CA
“This private resident raises the standard for Orange County living with its transitional contemporary and traditional features and its seamless connection between indoor and outdoor spaces”
DE Architects | CA
L + O, North Hollywood, CA
“L+O is a 7 story, urban infill, mixed use development with 297 apartments (including 25 very low income) over a 27,000 sf grocery market, located on a highly irregular site in the North Hollywood Arts District in Los Angeles, California”
Messana O’Rorke | CA
California Senior Housing, Novato, CA
“Our concept was to create a high density modular living environment evocative of medieval European Villages providing an architectural framework where traditional community living is enhanced and passive human interaction can thrive, while individual privacy and independence are maintained”
Voith & Mactavish Architects | PA
Villanova University The John and Joan Mullen Center for the Performing Arts, Villanova, PA
“The John and Joan Mullen Center for the Performing Arts at Villanova University is a beautiful and functional new campus icon that provides students with multiple professional-grade performance venues, but its most important role is a highly supportive learning environment”
Messana O’Rorke | NJ
Jackson Avenue House, Rutherford, NJ
“The concept was to maintain the character and scale of the existing house while juxtaposing a separate yet contemporary and complimentary addition separately by a light filled courtyard”
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners | CA
Marion Anderson Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, CA
“This addition to the original UCLA Anderson School complex provides sophisticated teaching, administrative and event space in a sustainable form that visually and functionally with the existing school while revitalizing the campus with a bold new presence”
Dattner Architects | NY
Spring Creek Landing, New York
“As part of New York State’s Vital Brooklyn initiative, Spring Creek Landing is a new wellness-oriented resilient development designed to address the chronic social economic, and health disparities in a historically underserved area”
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners | TX
SXSW Center: South by Southwest Headquarters, Austin, TX
“This iconic headquarters building expresses the unique identity of SXSW both inside and out, providing a flexible workplace that serves the company’s collaborative culture while connecting to the surrounding community with a welcoming plaza that preserves a grove of heritage live oaks”
Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects | NY
Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, NY
“Park Avenue Synagogue—a 6-story, 65,500-square foot building complex dating from 1927 that subsequently expanded twice—underwent a sweeping renovation that revitalized its ability in support the needs of its growing congregation”
Seibert Architects P.A. | FL
Denton Residence, Sarasota, FL
“This existing house from the 60’s lacked a clear concept but possessed a unique exposed beam, purlin and structural panel roof structure that were saved to create a garden pavilion that visually bridges the front and back landscaping through the house”
Arshia Architects | CA
BE29, Beverly Hills, CA
“Gallery 19C is a portfolio of rate impressionist artwork from the turn of the 19th Century. True to radical departure in impressionist art and borrowed from the bedroom in “2001: A Space Odyssey”, the design provides a stark aesthetic by delivering an environment that is materially incorporeal with the advent of diffused fabric lighting and hidden technologies in order to highlight the historic artwork, et weaving the past and the future with nuances like digital floor and wainscoting patterns.
Magnusson Architecture and Planning | NY
East Clarke Place Senior Residence, Bronx, NY
“At East Clarke Place, a LEED Platinum targeted, affordable senior housing development in the Bronx, social equity dovetails with design excellence to create a vertical village with indoor and outdoor social spaces and healthy sustainable homes where residents can thrive”
Magnusson Architecture and Planning PC | NY
Villas at the Ridgeway, Yonkers, NY
“With a focus on quality, comfort and sustainability, Villas at the Ridgeway offers 70 new, mixed-income, LEED-certified homes across four properties, all parts of public housing redevelopment in Yonkers, New York”
HMC Architects | CA
Honeybee Discovery Center, Orland, CA
“A net-zero nature education center that could reinvent a small farming community”
HMC Architects | CA
San Clemente Public Plaza, San Clemente, CA
“A new vision for a historic waterfront”
Studio Joseph | NY
“Sensory Journey” Art Omi Sculpture Park, Ghent, NY
“Sensory Journey embodies truly equitable placemaking inviting all people, irrespective of ability, to come together for shared learning, enjoyment, and social bonding with enhanced awareness and respect for the beauty of nature”
Mitchell Giurgola Architects, LLP | NY
Higgins Engineering & Science Center, Manhattan College, Bronx, NY
“The Higgins Engineering & Science Center establishes a new identity and threshold for Manhattan College acting as a window into the vibrant STEM community, celebrating the sciences and energizing the campus”
Studio Joseph | MN
“Campfire” Light Installation, Northfield, MN
“Campfire is both a beacon and a place of gathering, fostering community, educational discourse, and social bonding between students, faculty, and staff”
Handel Architects | NY
Inspir Carnegie Hill, New York
“Inspir is a new 215-unit high-rise assisted living building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side designed as a flagship property for our client’s senior living brand and providing residents with meaningful connections to nature, the city, and to their purpose in the building’s community – essential values as we age and meant to infuse positivity and invigorate the spirit”
Robert A.M. Stern Architects | NJ
American Water Headquarters, Camden, NJ
“The new American Water headquarters is the first building in Camden’s plan to reconnect the city’s downtown area with its historic waterfront, setting a design precedent that references Camden’s historic industrial architecture”
Gensler| DC
EIG, Washington, DC
“As a means of grounding EIG’s workplace in the original spirit of the Watergate, the team took cues from Luigi Moretti, the complex’s architect, and let context and organic solutions inform the design”