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American Architecture Awards 2020
Nov 7, 2020
2020 American Architecture Awards Shortlist
American Architecture Awards 2020 News
Greek Architects Select Over 130 Designs For New Buildings And Urban Planning Projects In The United States And Abroad For The 2020 American Architecture Awards
The Nation’s Highest Public Award for New Architecture and Urban Planning by the Most Prominent Architecture Firms in the United States Are Honored by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
November 1st 2020 – A new skyscraper and transportation center in San Francisco by Cesar Pelli; a stunning restoration of an historic Washington D.C. library by Norman Foster; a Cadillac Showroom in Shanghai by Gensler; a visionary ‘cloudscape’ San Francisco tower by orm4Architecture; the rehabilitation of an old Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn by Practice for Architecture and Urbanism; a minimalist house in Connecticut by Roger Ferris + Partners; a sleek Conrad Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. by Herzog & de Meuron/ Rottet Studio; a new Chicago zoo building by Ross Barney Architects; two new vineyards in California and Umbria, Italy by Piechota Architecture and Hughes Umbanhowar Architects; new affordable housing in Los Angeles by Eric Owen Moss; and two New York skyscrapers by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. head an impressive list of awarded buildings and urban planning projects in the United States and abroad for 2020.
Over 130 buildings and urban plans from a shortlist of over 400 projects have won the prestigious 2020 American Architecture Awards® for the best new architecture designed and constructed by American architects and by international architects with offices in the United States.
Now in its 26th year, The American Architecture Awards are organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—jointly presenting this annual, prestigious program for Design Excellence and for the best and next contributions to innovative contemporary American architecture.
The American Architecture Awards are the nation’s highest public awards given by a non-commercial, non-trade affiliated, public arts, culture, and educational institution.
This year’s American Architecture Awards went to exceptional buildings designed for every stage of our lives: skyscrapers, corporate headquarters, governmental buildings, science and technology centers, transportation centers, airports, hotels, parks, pavilions, restorations and renovations, retail facilities, housing projects, private homes, schools, universities, art, cultural and health buildings, urban planning and landscape architecture, interiors, and other humanitarian and educational initiatives.
“For 26 years, The American Architecture Awards have recognized the best new American architecture by the nation’s leading architects for their approach, research, innovation, and vision by design practitioners, developers, and their clients,” states Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Architecture Critic and Museum President, The Chicago Athenaeum.
“In a matter of 26 years, this program has become the single, most important recognition for Design Excellence in the United States, honoring known and celebrated firms, as well as young upstart offices for their smaller scaled, more challenging projects.”
“This year, the selected firms for these awards again celebrate the value of architecture to communities across the country and reaffirm American architects’ commitment to the highest standards of design.”
“Land developers, builders, architects, and engineers have dissected the most brilliant deliveries of single buildings and master planned communities, evaluating the challenges ahead and discussing solutions that will shape tomorrow’s communities well into the future,” continues Narkiewicz-Laine.
“For 2020, The American Architecture Awards recognize the visionary work of several hundred architecture offices, associate architects, landscape architects, and urban planners for projects in every region of the United States, as well as aboard in Italy, China, Lithuania, Switzerland, South Korea, Latvia, New Zealand, Uganda, Mexico, and Brazil.”
“Also, it is interesting to note that this year, there were a record number of awards given for restoration, renovation, and historic preservation of old buildings, thereby reaffirming the importance to conserve American history and heritage, a well as heralding the prominent conservation position that handsomely recycled buildings are the best sustainable Green examples of what can be made revitalized and renewed again for contemporary use.”
“The Chicago Athenaeum champions better buildings, communities, and the environment through which architecture can flourish. The Museum’s awards provide one of the most powerful ways of promoting architecture and the work of architects to the public. I am delighted with this year’s selection, which shows a great variety of imagination and ingenuity,” Narkiewicz-Laine concludes.
This year, the 400 shortlisted entries were selected by a smaller, restricted jury because of the Corona Virus Pandemic and composed of the following Thessaloniki-based Greek architects and educators:
• Eleanna Makridou, Architect, P. Makridis + Associates S.A.
• Ifigeneia Konstantinidou, Communications Expert, Responsive
• Maria Tsaftari, Architect, Urban Soul Project
• Simos Antoniadis, Architect, Urban Soul Project
Photos courtesy of architects / The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
American Architecture Awards 2020 Shortlisted Buildings
“The over 130 Awarded American Architecture projects for 2020 are:
BRIDGES
inFORM studio + Buro Happold – Providence Pedestrian Bridge, Providence, Rhode Island
LMN Architects – University District Gateway Bridge, Spokane, Washington
Cordogan, Clark & Associates, Inc. – 41st Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois
CIVIC AND COMMUNITY
Overland Partners – ChildSafe Harvey E. Najim Children and Family Center, San Antonio, Texas
COMMERCIAL
Belzberg Architects – Aurora, México City, México
Piechota Architecture – Silver Oak Winery, Healdsburg, California
Hughes Umbanhowar Architects – Tasting Room, Umbria, Italy
HOK – Consumers Credit Union Headquarters, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Adjaye Associates – The Webster, Los Angeles, California
Skylab – Sideyard, Portland, Oregon
CORPORATE
LEVER Architecture – Redfox Commons, Portland, Oregon
SmithGroup – Guangshun University Labs, Guiyang, China
CULTURE AND MUSEUMS
Johnsen Schmaling Architects – OS Gallery and Studio, Racine, Wisconsin
Belzberg Architects – USC Shoah Foundation-Institute for Visual History and Education, Los Angeles, California
HGA – Boise State University Center for the Visual Arts, Boise, Idaho
OSA Open Source Architecture – Tautos Namai, Lithuanian National Concert Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
archimania – Ballet Memphis, Memphis, Tennesse
Michielli + Wyetzner Architects – The Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, Bronx, New York
Form4 Architecture – The Museum of No Spectators, Black Rock City, Nevada
Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc. – MuseumLab, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP. – LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, New York, New York
Deborah Berke Partners – 122 Community Arts Center, New York, New York
Adjaye Associates – Ruby City Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas
DISPLAY/INSTALLATIONS
Studio Joseph – New Glass Now, Corning, New York
ENTERTAINMENT
Marvel Architects – TheatreSquared, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Ross Barney Architects – Searle Visitor Center Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois
EXPOSITION
Lake|Flato Architects – Marine Education Center at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Mississippi
HOK – Kentucky International Convention Center, Louisville, Kentucky
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill/ Mark Cavagnero Associates – Moscone Center Expansion and Improvement, San Francisco, California
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
Roth Sheppard Architects – Montezuma County Combined Courts
HEALTH CARE/HOSPITALS
Trahan Architects – The Ochsner Center for Innovation, New Orleans, Louisiana
ikon.5 architects – Health and Wellness Center, Suffolk County Community College, Riverhead, New York
Paul Lukez Architecture – Uganda Dental and Vision Clinic, Bwindi, Uganda
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP. – David H. Koch Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
HIGH RISES/SKYSCRAPERS
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.– 55 Hudson Yards, New York, New York
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.– 390 Madison, New York, New York
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects – Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, California
FitzGerald Associates Architects – 727 West Madison, Chicago, Illinois
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP. – One Dalton: Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences, Boston, Massachusetts
Solomon Cordwell Buenz – Park Tower at Transbay, San Francisco, California
Pininfarina – Yachthouse by Pininfarina, Balneário Camboriú, Brazil
HOTELS/HOSPITALITY
Kobi Karp Architecture and Interior Design – Kimpton Hotel Palomar South Beach, Miami, Florida
Montalba Architects, Inc. – Whitepod, Les Cerniers, Switzerland
UNITEDLAB Associates LLC. – Round Retreat, Kurzeme, Latvia
Herzog & de Meuron/ Rottet Studio – Conrad Washington, DC., Washington, D.C.
INDUSTRIAL
Arch11 – DynaEnergetics, Blum, Texas
Tryba Architects – The Glass Lab, Portland, Oregon
LIBRARIES
JRA Architects – Louisville Free Public Library Northeast Regional Branch, Louisville, Kentucky
MONUMENTS
Handel Architects – Emanuel Nine Memorial, Charleston, South Carolina
MIXED-USE
Jonathan Segal FAIA – The Continental, San Diego, California
Form4 Architecture – Cloudscape, San Francisco, California
Ennead Architects – Taopu HERO Innovation Hub, Shanghai, China
HOK – 4th and Harrison Mixed-use Development, San Francisco, California
Belzberg Architects – West Olympic Science Hub, Los Angeles, California
Eric Owen Moss Architects – Reese Davidson Community, Los Angeles, California
MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING
University of Arkansas Community Design Center – 7Hills Day Center Complex, Fayetteville, Arkansas
University of Arkansas Community Design Center – New Beginnings Homeless Transition Village Prototype, Fayetteville, Arkansas
SHoP Architects – PIER 4 Project, Boston, Massachusetts
DLR Group – The Triumph – Community-Based Short Term Family Housing, Washington, District of Columbia
PRIVATE HOUSES
Messana O’Rorke Architects – The Jewel Box, New York, New York
Engelking Architect – Wuehrer House, East Hampton, New York
Belzberg Architects – Camelback Residence, Paradise Valley, Arizona
CCY Architects – Meadow House, Aspen, Colorado
MINARC – Mildred Residence, Venice, California
Aidlin Darling Design – High Desert Retreat, Palm Desert, California
David Jameson Architect – Manifold House, Arlington, Virginia
Alterstudio – Highland Park Residence, Austin, Texas
ISA – Interface Studio Architects – XS House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
David Jameson Architect – Wildcat Mountain Residence, The Plains, Virginia
Snow Kreilich Architects – X House, Minneapolis Minnesota
XTEN Architecture – Skyhouse, Los Angeles, California
Abramson Architects – The Palisades House, Pacific Palisades, California
Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects – Ridge Mountain, Palm Springs, California
Roger Ferris + Partners – Pool House, Westport, Connecticut
Swatt | Miers Architects – Cheng-Brier House, Tiburon, California
Lake|Flato Architects – Aegean Pool House, Mineola, Texas
Lake|Flato Architects – Ishawooa Mesa Ranch, Cody, Wyoming
Charles Rose Architects – Bluff House, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, New York
SsD – Simgok Place, Seoul, South Korea
PUBLIC SPACE
designLAB architects – Worcester Blackstone Visitors Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects – The Culver Steps, Culver City, California
photos by Eric Staudenmaier Photography and Paul Vu Photography
The Culver Steps
Metcalfe Architecture & Design, LLC. – Whiting Forest of Dow Gardens, Midland, Michigan
photo : Nic Lehoux
Confluence Park San Antonio
Lake|Flato Architects + Matsys – Confluence Park, San Antonio, Texas
photo : Casey Dunn
Confluence Park San Antonio
Stack + Co. – Warp House, Boston, Massachusetts
photo : Nat Rea
Warp House
UNITEDLAB Associates – Cloud Forests Pavilion for Children’s Play, Hwaseong, South Korea
photo : Pace Studio, UNITEDLAB Associates
Cloud Forests Pavilion for Children’s Play
RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS
Archimania – Garden Chapel Pavilion, Memphis, Tennesse
Mark Cavagnero Associates – Saint Mary’s College High School Student Chapel, Albany, California
BNIM – Lutheran Church of Hope-Grimes, Grimes, Iowa
RETAIL/SHOWROOMS
Dake Wells Architecture – Sunshine and National Retail Center, Springfield, Missouri
David Jameson Architect – Sherber + Rad, Washington, DC
atelierRISTING llc. – Glass Cabin, Fairbank, Iowa
Gensler – Cadillac House in Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Montalba Architects, Inc. – BLDWN, Los Angeles, California
Desai Chia Architecture – AFNY Project 6 Showroom, New York, New York
RESTORATION/RENOVATION
Woofter Architecture – PSU Stott Center Renovation + Viking Pavilion, Portland, Oregon
Aidlin Darling Design – Terrace House, San Francisco, California
Spectorgroup/ Perkins Eastman Architects – Audible Innovation Cathedral, Newark, New Jersey
Foster + Partners – Apple Carnegie Library, Washington D.C.
Alexander Gorlin Architects – Bell Works, Holmdel, New Jersey
Hughes Umbanhowar – Mashta, Key Biscayne, Florida
Roth Sheppard Architects – Rabbit House, Denver, Colorado
Practice for Architecture and Urbanism – Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, New York
Bone / Levine Architects – Anthology Film Archives Completion Project, New York, New York
Touloukian Touloukian Inc. – Terminal B, Boston, Massachusetts
SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES
Centerbrook Architects and Planners – Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Mitchell Giurgola – 370 Jay Street, New York University, Brooklyn, New York
Gensler – Columbia College Student Center, Chicago, Illinois
Payette – Amherst College New Science Center, Amherst, Massachusetts
KieranTimberland – Brown University, Engineering Research Center, Providence, Rhode Island\
Ennead Architects – Stanford University, Denning House, Stanford, California
William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. with Arrowstreet Architecture & Design – King Open Elementary / Cambridge Street Upper Schools and Community Complex, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Weiss/Manfredi Architects – Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
CO Architects – University of Arizona Health Sciences Innovation Building, Tucson, Arizona
BVH Architecture – Nebraska Center for Advanced Professional Studies, Fairfield, Nebraska
Montalba Architects, Inc. – Headspace SM Campus, Santa Monica, California
The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP. in collaboration with Lord Aeck Sargent, a Ketterra Company – Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, Georgia Institute of Technology
SPORTS AND LEISURE
FGP Atelier/ Taller ADG – Centro Deportivo Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium, México City, México
Elkus Manfredi Architects – The Auerbach Center, Boston, Massachusetts
BVH Architecture – Niobrara River Valley Preserve Center, Johnstown, Nebraska
BLUR Workshop – Colorado Active Sports Entertainment Facility, Centennial, Colorado
TRANSPORTATION
Dake Wells Architecture – Springfield Underground Command Station, Springfield, Missouri
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects – Salesforce Transit Center, San Francisco, California
URBAN PLANNING/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. – NYCHA Red Hook Houses Sandy Resiliency and Renewal Program, Brooklyn, New York
W Architecture and Landscape Architecture LLC. – The Edge Park, Brooklyn, New York
SurfaceDesign, Inc. – The Auckland International Airport Landscape, Auckland, New Zealand
PWP Landscape Architecture – Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland
All Awarded buildings can be viewed at The Museum’s website in an on-line exhbition at chi-athenaeum.org.
The American Architecture Awards, founded 26 years ago, is a centerpiece of The Chicago Athenaeum and the European Centre’s efforts to identify and promote best practices in all types of architectural development and to bring a global focus to light of the best new designs from the United States. It is the only national and global program of its kind.
The 2020 Awards Presentation/Gala Dinner was to be held in Los Angeles, but has been postponed until next year due to the Corona Virus/COVID-19 Pandemic. A notice will be sent when the event is rescheduled.
All awarded buildings and urban planning projects are presented in (Global Design + Urbanism XX) New American Architecture 2020 published by Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.
Books can be purchased by contacting The Chicago Athenaeum or on-line at metropolitanartspress.com.
The deadline for the 2021 American Architecture Awards is February 1, 2021.
Applications for 2021 are available on line at chi-athenaeum.org.
About The Chicago Athenaeum (www.chi-athenaeum.org) is a global nonprofit education and research institute supported by its members. Its mission is to provide public education about the significance of architecture and design and how those disciplines can have a positive effect on the human environment.
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