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2009 AIA Institute Honor Award Winners Announced

Full-service design and architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) earned four Honor Awards.

Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 1/13/2009 12:00:00 AM

The Salt Point House in Salt Point, New York by Thomas Phifer and Partners.
Photo courtesy of the AIA

In the design industry, January is an action-packed month, at least when it comes to awards programs. Case in point, the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture recently announced the winners of the Good Design Awards, and now we have the AIA Institute Honor Awards, presented by the American Institute of Architects.

This year, 25 international recipients (from over 700 submissions) received a nod for excellence in architecture, interior architecture, and urban design: Of these, nine projects were selected for the architecture category; 10 projects for the interior architecture category; and six projects for the regional and urban design category.

Two firms earn the exclusive honor of having more than one project on the list: full-service design and architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and architecture firm VJAA. SOM won in both the architecture category (for the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California) and the Regional and Urban Design category (for Foshan Donghuali Master Plan in Guangdong, China; the redevelopment of Treasure Island in San Francisco; and the Southworks Lakeside Chicago Development, Chicago, completed jointly with Sasaki Associates). VJAA took awards for both the Charles Hostler Student Center in Beirut, Lebanon and the Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life in New Orleans

The winners will be feted at the AIA 2009 National Convention and Design Exposition in San Francisco.

A complete list of winners is below.

2009 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture
1. Basilica of the Assumption, Baltimore by John G. Waite Associates, Architects

2. Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland, California by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

3. Charles Hostler Student Center, Beirut, Lebanon by VJAA

4. The Gary Comer Youth Center, Chicago by John Ronan Architects

5. Horno³: Museo del Acero, Monterey, Mexico by Grimshaw Architects

6. The Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life, New Orleans by VJAA

7. The New York Times Building, New York by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFowle Architects

8. Plaza Apartments, San Francisco by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

9. Salt Point House, Salt Point, New York by Thomas Phifer and Partners

2009 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture
1. Barclays Global Investors Headquarters, San Francisco by Studios Architecture

2. Chronicle Books, San Francisco by Mark Cavagnero Associates

3. The Heckscher Foundation for Children, New York by Christoff: Finio architecture

4, Jigsaw, Washington, D.C. by David Jameson Architect

5. R.C. Hedreen, Seattle by NBBJ

6. School of American Ballet, New York by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

7. Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York by Lyn Rice Architects

8. Tishman Speyer Corporate Headquarters, New York by Lehman Smith McLeish

9. Town House, Washington, D.C. by Robert M. Gurney, FAIA

10. World Headquarters for IFAW—Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts by Designlab architects

2009 Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design
1. Foshan Donghuali Master Plan, Guangdong, China by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

2. Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California by TEN Arquitectos

3. Between Neighborhood Watershed & Home, Fayetteville, Arkansas by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center

4. Southworks Lakeside Chicago Development, Chicago by Sasaki Associates, Inc. and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

5. The Central Park of the New Radiant City, Guangming New Town, China by Lee + Mundwiler Architects

6. Treasure Island Master Plan, San Francisco by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Visit the AIA for more information on winners.