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Here are the AIA New York's 2015 Design Award Winners in architecture

Here are the AIA New York's 2015 Design Award Winners in architecture

A jury of architects, landscape architects, critics, educators, and planners has named the 35 winning projects of this year’s AIA New York Chapter Design Awards. “Each winning project, granted either an ‘Honor’ or ‘Merit’ award, was chosen for its design quality, response to its context and community, program resolution, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique,” AIANY said in a statement. “Submitted projects had to be completed by members of the AIA New York Chapter, architects/designers practicing in New York, or be New York projects designed by architects/designers based elsewhere.” Take a look at the winning teams in the architecture category below.

But before we get to that, let’s start with the Best in Competition distinction which goes to SsD and its Songpa Micro Housing in Seoul, Korea (above). “Like the ambiguous gel around a tapioca pearl, this ‘Tapioca Space’ becomes a soft intersection between public/private and interior/exterior building social fabrics between immediate neighbors,” the firm said in a statement. “Finally, as this is housing for emerging artists, exhibition spaces on the ground floor and basement are spatially linked to the units as a shared living room. Although the zoning regulation requires the building to be lifted for parking, this open ground plan is also used to pull the pedestrians in from the street and down a set of auditorium-like steps, connecting city and building residents to the exhibition spaces below.”

Okay, now onto the Honor Awards in the architecture category.

Davis Brody Bond
National September 11 Memorial Museum
New York, NY

From the architects: “Remembering the fallen Twin Towers through their surviving physical structural footprints, the 9/11 Memorial Museum stands witness to the tragedy and its impact.”

John Wardle Architects and NADAAA
Melbourne School of Design
Melbourne, Australia

From the architects: “The new building for the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning responds to the urban design values identi- fi ed in the Campus Master Plan and enhances the existing open spaces within the historic core of the Centre Precinct of the Parkville Campus. It engages with the existing landscape elements, continues the sequence of outdoor rooms arrayed across the campus, and links strongly to the intricate network of circulation routes that surround the site. The new building compliments and enhances the sense of place that the Eastern Precinct of the Parkville Campus already commands.”

REX
Vakko Fashion Center
Istanbul, Turkey

From the architects: “Turkey’s pre-eminent fashion house, Vakko, and Turkey’s equivalent of MTV, Power Media, planned to design and construct a new headquarters in an extremely tight schedule using an unfinished, abandoned hotel. Fortuitously, the unfinished building had the same plan dimension, floor-to-floor height, and servicing concept as another one of our projects, the Annenberg Center’s ‘Ring’, which had been cancelled. By adapting the construction documents produced for that project to the abandoned concrete hotel skeleton, construction on the perimeter office block commenced only four days after Vakko/Power first approached our team. This adaptive re-use opened a six-week window during which the more unique portions of the program could be designed simultaneous to construction.”

ROGERS PARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers
Henderson-Hopkins School
Baltimore, MD

From the architects: “The new Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School and The Harry And Jeanette Weinberg Early Childhood Center, together called Henderson Hopkins, is the fi rst new Baltimore public school built in 30 years. A cornerstone for the largest redevelopment project in Baltimore, it is envisioned as a catalyst in the revitalization of East Baltimore. The seven-acre campus will house 540 K-8 students and 175 pre-school children.”

 

WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center
Brooklyn, NY

From the architects: “A botanic garden is an unusual kind of museum: a fragile collection constantly in flux. As a constructed natural environment, it is dependent on man-made infrastructures to thrive. New York City’s Brooklyn Botanic Garden contains a wide variety of landscapes organized into discrete settings such as the Japanese Garden, the Cherry Esplanade, the Osborne Garden, the Overlook, and the Cranford Rose Garden. The Botanic Garden exists as an oasis in the city, visually separated from the neighborhood by elevated berms and trees.”

WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology
Philadelphia, PA

From the architects: “The newly-opened Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology demonstrates the University of Pennsylvania’s leadership in the emerging field of nanotechnology. Nanoscale research is at the core of cutting-edge breakthroughs that transcend disciplinary boundaries of engineering, medicine, and the sciences. The new Center for Nanotechnology contains a rigorous collection of advanced labs, woven together by collaborative public spaces that enable interaction between different fields. The University’s first cross disciplinary building, the Singh Center encourages the exchange and integration of knowledge that characterizes the study of this emerging field and combines the resources of both engineering and the sciences.”

Merit Awards 

Garrison Architects
NYC Emergency Housing Prototype
Brooklyn, NY

H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture
Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Brooklyn, NY

Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects
Toroishiku (Marc Jacobs Building)
Tokyo, Japan

Louise Braverman, Architect
Village Health Works Staff Housing
Kigutu, Burundi

Maryann Thompson Architects
Pier Two at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn, NY

OPEN Architecture
Garden School
Beijing, China

PARA-Project
Haffenden House
Syracuse, NY

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
University Center – The New School
New York, NY

Thomas Phifer and Partners
Project: United States Courthouse, Salt Lake City
Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Project: Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Location: Chicago, IL

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