Winners Announced in NYC Architecture Awards

The results are in for the 2007 Design Awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York Chapter. The jury, composed of notable architects and designers from around the world, reunited for a public symposium and discussion panel last night at the Center for Architecture. The judging criteria were defined as "Quality of design; resolution of the program or idea; and innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique."

The following list includes only the highest award recipients, or Honor Awards. A complete winners' list with photos, including the Merit Award recipients and all other submissions, will soon be available for viewing via the AIA-NY website. In addition, the Center for Architecture will host a public exhibition of winning projects opening April 12.

ARCHITECTURE HONOR AWARDS
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Foster + Partners, Hearst Tower, New York City
Steven Harris Architects, 92 Jane Street, New York City
Steven Holl Architects, New Residence at the Swiss Embassy, Washington, D.C.
Steven Holl Architects, Higgins Hall / Pratt Institute, Brookyn
Weiss Manfredi, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington

INTERIORS HONOR AWARDS
Dean/Wolf Architects, Operable Boundary Townhouse Garden, Brooklyn

PROJECTS HONOR AWARDS (temporary/conceptual/unbuilt)
nARCHITECTS, and Daniela Zimmer, Windshape, Lacoste, France
Thomas Phifer and Partners, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina

Jury:
Interiors
- Piero Sartogo, Sartogo Architetti Associati, Rome
- Benjamin Gianni, School of Architecture, Carleton University, Ottawa
- Debra Lehman-Smith, Lehman Smith McLeish, Washington

Architecture
- Daniel Hanganu, Dan S. Hanganu Architects, Montreal
- Massimiliano Fuksas, Massimiliano Fuksas architetto, Rome
- David Adjaye, Adjaye/Associates. London

Projects
- Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects, Chicago
- Peter Waldman, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
- Matthias Sauerbruch, Sauerbruch Hutton, Berlin

Project Eligibility:
Architecture located anywhere in the world designed by AIA New York Chapter members or registered architects practicing in New York City; and architecture located in New York City designed by registered architects practicing anywhere in the world. Associate AIA New York Chapter members may submit in the Projects category only. Built work must have been completed and unbuilt projects must have been initiated after January 1, 2002.

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By Gideon Fink Shapiro in Arts and Events on February 13, 2007 3:08 PM

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BWA

Della Valle Bernheimer also won an Honor Award in Interiors for the renovation of Paul Rudolph's former apartment on Beekman Place.

John Lumea

Right, #2.

At ground zero, Calatrava 2.0 -- already a truncated dumb-down of the absurdly overpriced $2.2B original -- was pegged last week at $3.4B (!!!), a 50+% mark-up. "Value engineering" is underway, but expect Calatrava's star to plummet fast, once the reality version hits the front pages sometime this summer.

MT

The exterior of the Hearst Tower is so overrated. If they had any balls and didn't make the sides flat like that it could have been spectacular. It's just another example of watered down New York architecture. Watch our Calatrava. Your designs are next.