AIA Names Honor Award Winners for 2007

A ceremony will be held in May during the AIA National Convention and Design Exposition, which will be held in San Antonio.

Meaghan O'Neill -- Interior Design, 1/23/2007 12:00:00 AM

Starting with an enormous 700 submissions, jurors of the American Institute of Architects Honor Awards for 2007 whittled winners down to 29 projects. The awards, which exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture, and urban design, are largely considered one of the profession’s highest recognitions. Recipients will be honored in May at the AIA 2007 National Convention and Design Exposition, which will be held in San Antonio.

Honor Awards in Architecture
Eleven worthy projects were selected for Honor Awards in Architecture this year, with schools and educational facilities making a particularly strong showing—eight awards were for these types of facilities. “This year’s collection of projects demonstrates that bold, sculptural expressions of form can be as captivating as ever, yet rational, elegant solutions to structural, programmatic, community and environmental issues can be equally compelling,” says jury chair, Richard A. Logan. The winning projects are:

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany by Eisenman Architects

Spencertown House in Spencertown New York by Thomas Phifer and Partners

Canada’s National Ballet School: Project Grand Jeté, Stage 1: The Jarvis Street Campus in Toronto, Canada by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects/Goldsmith Borgal & Company Limited Architects inJointVenture

Meinel Optical Science Research Building in Tucson, Arizona by Richärd + Bauer Architecture

World Birding Center Headquarters in Mission, Texas by Lake|Flato Architects

University of Michigan, Biomedical Science Research Building in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Polshek Partnership Architects

Palo Verde Library/Maryvale Community Center in Phoenix, Arizona by Gould Evans Associates, L.C. + Wendell Burnette Architects

University of California, Merced Central Plant in Merced, California by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Umbrella in Venice, California by Pugh + Scarpa

Dr. Theodore T. Alexander Jr. Science Center School in Los Angeles, California by Morphosis

School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa by Steven Holl Architects, with associate architect Herbert Lewis KruseBlunckArchitecture

2007 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture
From small office spaces to college residences to an independent high school, awards in the Interior Architecture category marked a variety of project types, often expressing a great deal of creativity on a small budget. “Some of the winning projects seem deceptively simple, but they reflect a level of complexity in thought and care that the jury associated with the highest design standards,” according to Ann Beha, jury chair for the category.

ImageNet in Carrollton, Texas by Elliott + Associates Architects

Pierson and Davenport Colleges, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut by KieranTimberlake Associates

St. Mary of the Springs in Columbus, Ohio by Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects

The Bay School of San Francisco in San Francisco, California by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

Louis Vuitton Landmark in Hong Kong by Peter Marino Architect, with associate architect Dcmstudios (formerly Denton Corker Marshall HK)

Endeavor Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, California by NMDA with associate architect Interior Architects

Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center in New York by Gabellini Sheppard Associates, with infrastructure architect SLCE Architects

Better Business Bureau Heartland Office in Omaha, Nebraska by Randy Brown Architects

Haworth Chicago Showroom in Chicago by Perkins + Will | Eva Maddox Branded Environments

Bloomberg LP Headquarters in New York by Studios Architecture

The Modern restaurant in New York by Bentel & Bentel, Architects/Planners AIA

Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design
Recipients in this category “showed concern for repairing mistakes of the past, improving the quality of the urban environment, and creating sustainable places,” according to the jury.

A Balanced Vision Plan for the Trinity River Corridor in Dallas, Texas by Chan Krieger Sieniewicz

Historic Third Ward Riverwalk in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Engberg Anderson Design Partnership

The Carneros Inn in Napa, California by William Rawn Associates, Architects, with associate architects Caspar Mol Architecture and Planning, Les Girouard, Persinger Architects (formerly Persinger Hale Architects), and RMW Architecture & Interiors

Crown Properties in Gaithersburg, Maryland by Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn Architects

New York Stock Exchange Financial District Streetscapes + Security in New York by Rogers Marvel Architects

Boston’s Newest Smart Growth Corridor: A Collaborative Vision for the Fairmount/Indigo Line in Boston by Goody Clancy

Zoning, Urban Form, and Civic Identity: The Future of Pittsburgh’s Hillsides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Perkins Eastman

Canada's National Ballet School: Project Grand Jeté, Stage 1: The Jarvis Street Campus in Toronto, Canada by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects/Goldsmith Borgal & Company Limited Architects, injointventure

School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa by Steven Holl Architects, with associate architect Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture