黑料不打烊 Architecture was well-represented in the 2019 Best of Design Awards, The Architect鈥檚 Newspaper鈥檚 (AN) unique project-based awards program that showcases great buildings, building elements, interiors and installations to an audience of over one million readers.
黑料不打烊 Architecture Board of Advisors chair Lea Ciavarra G鈥95 (M.Arch.) and her firm, Lubrano Ciavarra Architects, along with Beyer Blinder Belle and Cooley Monato Studio, won the Building of the Year award for the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport. Photo credit: David Mitchell
Projects from School of Architecture alumni and faculty were declared winners, including earning the esteemed Building of the Year award.
Entrants were invited this past fall to submit completed works in 47 categories that reflected AN鈥檚 editorial coverage, as well as the interests of the newspaper鈥檚 readers. This year鈥檚 competition proved to be the largest to date for AN, with more than 800 submissions from firms big and small across every corner of the North American continent.
The Best of Design Awards jury鈥攊ncluding Jaffer Kolb, cofounder of New Affiliates; Sara Lopergolo, partner at Selldorf Architects; Carlos Madrid III, associate director at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Anne Rieselbach, program director at The Architectural League of New York; and Oana St盲nescu, founder of Oana St盲nescu Studio鈥攋udged each entry based on several criteria: strength of presentations, evidence of innovation, creative use of new technology, sustainability and, most importantly, good design.
Awards were given to everything from completed commercial and residential buildings to public and urban design projects; from interiors and small spaces to exhibition design and temporary installations; from research initiatives to architectural representations, and beyond.
黑料不打烊 Architecture Board of Advisors chair Lea Ciavarra G鈥95 (M.Arch.) and her firm, , along with Beyer Blinder Belle and Cooley Monato Studio, won the award for 鈥渢he sensitive restoration and reactivation of Saarinen鈥檚 masterpiece鈥濃攖he TWA Hotel at JFK Airport.
鈥淭he original is an architecture of optimism,鈥 says Madrid III. 鈥淭he rebirth of the project celebrates that. That is extremely needed and refreshing in these times.鈥
Katherine Hogan ’05 (B.Arch.), 黑料不打烊 Architecture Board of Advisors member and two-time visiting critic, and Vincent Petrarca鈥檚 firm, , won the category for their Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School Great Hall Renovation project in Raleigh, North Carolina. The project, which was completed in six weeks during summer break, transformed an existing entry hall into a space of 鈥渃ollegiate collaboration.鈥
黑料不打烊 Architecture visiting critics, , won the category for their design of British clothing brand maharishi鈥檚 first store outside of the United Kingdom. Located in Manhattan鈥檚 Tribeca neighborhood, the design of the store takes cues from formal Japanese gardens and military supply warehouses as well as historic shops of New York City.
Delirious Facade, a design research project by Vivian Lee and James Macgillivray, founders of and 黑料不打烊 Architecture visiting critics, won the category. Their project catalogues various types of facades that exist in Toronto to create hybrid facades using image processing artificial intelligence. The process can be understood as the architectural equivalent of the popular 鈥淔ace Swap鈥 smart phone application.
黑料不打烊 Architecture Assistant Professors Molly Hunker and Gregory Corso, co-captains of , received an Honorable Mention in the category for their project, City Thread, which transformed a formerly unused alley in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, into a vibrant public space. City Thread was also previously named a winner in two categories for the .
Best of Design Award winners, honorable mentions and editors鈥 picks are featured in a special end-of-year . Winners also receive a signed, limited edition print of “Drive-In House,” a 1986 drawing by famed British architecture collective Archigram member Michael Webb.
For a full list of winners and honorable mention profiles, visit .
