The 2011 Design Awards Gala was a winner

Four hundred attendees packed the fourth-floor ballroom at the Boston Marriott Copley Place for the first annual BSA Design Awards Gala on January 26. The sold-out event saw architects from around the country meet, greet and learn who had won top honors in the 2011 design award competitions. Congratulations to all, including the People’s Choice Award winner for greater Boston’s most beautiful building: Foster + Partners (New York City) and CBT Architects (Boston) for the MFA Art of Americas Wing. View party pictures.

The BSA thanks all who made the night a success, especially our sponsors: Design New England, Boston.com, Audio Video Design, Payne|Bouchier, S+H Construction, National Grid, Form Function Custom, Transformit and photographer Bruce T. Martin.

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Award programs and nominees

Every project listed below has received recognition, but event attendees will be the first to learn which were given highest honors.

Access Awards

Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Architectural Access Board (AAB), this program recognizes excellence in the design of buildings or facilities that are accessible for persons of all abilities. Successful projects include the integration of accessibility requirements and exceed the legal requirements with features that anticipate diverse user needs and benefits.
(winners announced at State House Great Hall on August 19, 2011)

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Access Awards 2011 jury
Leila Gonzalez, Massachusetts College of Art
Donald Lang AIA, Donald Lang Architects and chairman of the Architectural Access Board 
Deborah Pierce AIA, Pierce Lamb Architects
Ryan Schicker, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Mark Trivett, Easton building inspector and Architectural Access Board member

Access Awards 2011 winners
William D. Smith Memorial Award  
Matthews Arena, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Miller Dyer Spears

North Parish Church, North Andover, MA
Menders, Torrey and Spencer

Sandwich Town Hall, Sandwich, MA
McGinley Kalsow & Associates

Public Architecture   
Bowditch Field Athletic and Cultural Complex, Framingham, MA
Kaestle Boos Associates

Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
Gensler          

Fall River Justice Center, Fall River, MA
Finegold Alexander + Associates   

Residential
New Barrier-Free Housing, Arlington, MA
Abacus Architects and Planners

The John M. Clancy Award for Socially Responsible Housing

The intent of this award is to recognize and encourage excellence in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of socially responsible housing by honoring an organization, a group or an individual who has been a major force behind one or more built developments.

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The John M. Clancy Award 2011 jury
David Block, The Community Builders
Robert Chandler AIA, Goody Clancy
Mark Edlen, Gerding Edlen Companies
Deborah Goddard, Esq., Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development 
David Hacin FAIA, Hacin + Associates

The John M. Clancy Award 2011 winners
Dudley Village, Roxbury, MA
The Narrow Gate Architecture

Maverick Landing, East Boston, MA
ICON architecture    

Casa Feliz, San Jose, CA
Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA, Architecture and Planning          

NAMCO Block, Windsor, VT
Gossens, Bachman Architects         

The Schermerhorn, Common Ground Community, Brooklyn, NY
Ennead Architects    

Castle Gardens, New York, NY
Curtis + Ginsberg Architects

Education Facilities Awards

Any education facility built anywhere in the world designed by a New England or New York architect/firm, or any education facility built in New England or New York by any architect/firm anywhere in the world is eligible.

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Education Facilities Awards 2011 jury
David Croteau AIA, Flansburgh Architects
Barbara Crum AIA, LEED AP, Perkins+Will
Frank Locker PhD, Educational Planning
Brooke Trivas Assoc. AIA, Tappe Associates

Education Facilities Awards 2011 winners
K–12 Facilities
Education and Community Center, Korean Church of Boston, Brookline, MA
Brian Healy Architects         

Milton Academy, Pritzker Science Center, Milton, MA
William Rawn Associates, Architects         

Higher Education Facilities
The Juilliard School renovation and expansion, New York, NY
Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXFOWLE Architects

Integrated Science Building, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Amherst, MA
Payette          

Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Payette

Wieland and King Residence Halls, Amherst, MA
William Rawn Associates, Architects         

Marsh Hall, Salem State University, Salem, MA
DiMella Shaffer         

Axinn Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Starr Library, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
CBT Architects

Sustainable Design Awards

This program honors work that contributes, by its design, to the creation of a sustainable world. It is open to any design professional practicing anywhere in the world.

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Sustainable Design Awards 2011 jury
Emilie Hagen LEED AP BD+C, Atelier Ten
Hope Strode LEED AP, Maryann Thompson Associates
Rob TrumbourAIA, Wentworth Institute of Technology and founder of Artforming, Boston

Sustainable Design Awards  2011 winners
Ford Assembly Building, Richmond, CA
Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects         

Rogers International Environmental Magnet School, Stamford, CT
Tai Soo Kim Partners          

R-House, Syracuse, NY
Della Valle Bernheimer Architecture Research Office     

SAP Americas Headquarters, Newtown Square, PA
FXFOWLE Architects           

Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
William Rawn Associates, Architects         

Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA
William Rawn Associates, Architects with Ann Beha Architects 

Kroon Hall, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Centerbrook Architects and Planners       

Kripalu Housing Tower, Stockbridge, MA
Peter Rose + Partners         

Saint Polycarp Village Apartments, Somerville, MA
Davis Square Architects

Unbuilt Architecture and Design Awards

Architects, designers, educators and students throughout the world are invited to submit real or theoretical projects.

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Unbuilt Architecture and Design Awards 2011 jury
Michael Blier ASLA, Hon. BSA, Landworks Studio
Gabriel Feld, Rhode Island School of Design
Joe Haskett RA, NCARB, LEED AP, distill studio
Mariana Ibañez, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Peter Lofgren, Baker Design Group (jury chair)
David Stern, Stern McCafferty Architecture & Interiors

Unbuilt Architecture and Design Awards 2011 winners
Nature Pact, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Felder

King Faisal Cancer Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Cannon Design         

Cottages at Fallingwater, Bear Run, PA
Marlon Blackwell Architect 

Al Rajhi Bank Headquarters, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Dwelling on the Boundary, Stewart Island, Washington
CollinsWoerman      

Pigs in Box, New York, NY
The LADG

Reduntant Smoke, London, UK
Berardo Matalucci, Echomaterico

8 Towers, Inner Mongolia
SsD Architecture + Urbanism         

Island of Water
SsD Architecture + Urbanism         

Three Pier Bride, Providence, RI
Studio Providence    

Big Box Revival
Jennifer Lee, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Honor Awards

Any structure or building of any size or project type anywhere in the world designed by a Massachusetts architect/firm; or any structure, building or project type built in Massachusetts by any architect/firm anywhere in the world is eligible.

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Honor Awards 2011 jury
This year's jury was composed of a subset of North Carolina's distinguished Triangle Architecture and Design Society (TADS).

Bryan Bell AIA, Bryan Bell ARchitecture
Roger Clark FAIA, North Carolina State University
Jeffrey Lee FAIA, PBC+L Architecture
Irv Pearce AIA, PBC+L Architecture
Ellen Weinstein AIA, Triangle Modernist Houses
Phil Szostak FAIA, Szostak Design
Frank Harmon FAIA, Frank Harmon Architect  (jury chair)
David Hill AIA, North Carolina State University

Honor Awards 2011 winners
Sol LeWitt Gallery at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Bruner/Cott & Associates   

Newton North High School, Newton, MA
GUND Partnership   

Sky Courts Exhibition Hall, Chengdu, China
Höweler + Yoon Architecture/MY Studio 

Kripalu Housing Tower, Stockbridge, MA
Peter Rose + Partners         

Residence, Martha's Vineyard, MA
Peter Rose + Partners         

Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Ann Beha Architects

Taunton Trial Court, Taunton, MA
Leers Weinzapfel Associates          

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, RI
Anmahian Winton Architects          

Essex Boat House, Essex, MA
Brian Healy Architects         

Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley Hills, MA
William Rawn Associates, Architects         

White Block Gallery, Heyri, Korea
SsD Architecture + Urbanism         

Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion, Boston, MA
Utile   

Princeton University, Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
Payette, in collaboration with Hopkins Architects           

Civic Building at Veteran's Plaza, Silver Springs, MD
Machado and Silvetti Associates    

Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
Epstein Joslin Architects      

The Beacom School of Business, Vermillion, SD
Charles Rose Architects

Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Charles Rose Architects      

Jean Vollum Drawing, Painting and Photography Building, Portland, OR
Charles Rose Architects      

Addison Gallery of Art, Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, MA
Centerbrook Architects and Planners

Harleston Parker Medal

Co-sponsored by The City of Boston, This annual honor seeks to recognize “the single most beautiful building or other structure” built in the metropolitan Boston area in the past 10 years. (Winner announced at the BSA Annual Meeting, December 8, 2011.)

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Harleston Parker 2011 jury
Nick Winton AIA, Anmahian Winton (jury chair)
Kathy Acerbo-Bachmann, Trinity Church at Copley Square
Christina Crawford AIA, LEED AP, architect and urban designer
Willie Jones, The Community Builders
Clifford Gayley AIA, LEED AP, William Rawn Associates, Architects
Shauna Gilles-Smith ASLA, LEED AP, principal, Ground Landscape Architecture
Prataap Patrose Assoc. AIA, Boston Redevelopment Association
Mark Walsh-Cooke PE, LEED AP BD+C, Arup
Jane Weinzapfel FAIA, Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Harleston Parker 2011 winners and runners-up
Harvard Graduate Student Housing at 10 Akron Street, Cambridge, MA
Kyu Sung Woo Architects(winner)

The Education and Community Center, Korean Church of Boston, Brookline, MA
Brian Healy Architects

MFA Art of Americas Wing, Boston, MA
Fosters + Partners (CBT Architects)

The Macallen Building, South Boston, MA
Office dA (Burt Hill)