2019 Excellence in Design Awards
Honor Award
SITE Tomorrow
Category: Built
Firm: SHoP Architects
Architect of Record: Greg Allegretti AIA
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Jury Comments:
SITE Santa Fe is a beautifully crafted renovation and expansion of one of Santa Fe’s most prized cultural jewels. Working with a limited budget of $7.1 million for 36,000sf that some single family houses in the area require – a civic space is created that shades, celebrates, and becomes one of the most important markers of the new Railyard Park in the historic Santa Fe Railyard district. Providing both front of house as well as back of house spaces and insuring that all spaces were well proportioned and lit even within a warehouse typology insures that this “kunsthaus” space is futureproofed for the next decades.
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Merit Award
Kopriva Residence
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Category: Built
Firm: Archaeo Architects
Architects: Jon Dick AIA and Bradyn Furry AIA
Photographer: Jon Dick and Bradyn Furry
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Jury Comments:
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Kopriva Residence manages to breathe new life into an existing residence – one of the most noble and sustainable actions one can do. With a beautiful palette of rammed earth, stucco, and large steel and glass windows the existing residence is opened to the outdoors and new indoor and outdoor relationships are created. The wishes of the client for a contemporary residential compound have been achieved with elegance and exceptional restraint.
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Citation Award
Laguna House
Category: Built
Firm: Spears Horn Architects
Architect: James Horn AIA
Owner: Laguna Housing Development + Management Enterprise
General Contractor: Native American Housing Consultants
Photographer: James Horn
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Jury Comments:
Laguna House is an affordable house prototype that celebrates the most abundant material from the reservation land – Earth. Creating simple yet effective and efficient housing layouts the buildings can be built using abundant resources – compacted earthen bricks and local labour. It is housing by the people for the people and definitely deserves to be commended for its ambitions and support of the local building culture.
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Innovation Award
Siler Yard: Arts + Creativity Center
Category: Conceptual
Firm: Atkin Olshin Schade Architects
Owner: New Mexico Inter-Faith Housing
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Jury Comments:
Siler Yard: Arts + Creativity Center warrants a citation for addressing the issues of creating affordable and diverse housing opportunities utilizing a very progressive approach of outreach, community involvement and building respect to build much needed live/work spaces. Siler Yard reflects the needs of a buoyant artistic community but the judges do believe that the design and its urban character could have been a bit more adventurous and creative mirroring more the inhabitants it serves. As an unbuilt project the judges acknowledge the efforts that have brought the project to where it is now but also hope to plant the seed that Siler Arts can aspire to something more representative of its mission to become a home of an artistic community.
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Innovation Award
Pixelated Pueblo
Category: Conceptual
Firm: Autotroph
Architects: Alexander Dzurec AIA, Luca Marino-Baker
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Jury Comments:
Pixelated Pueblo is a vision not only for a future of Santa Fe but more importantly the post retail landscape of big box retailers across America and how to reimagine a more dense, equitable and diverse city where once car culture, parking requirements and single use zoning ruled. By utilizing the creation of public policy’s new Midtown Local INnovation Corridor (LINC) Overlay District, Pixelated Pueblo reimagines how retail, housing, public realm and recreation can all co-exist and feed off of one another. This is a forward thinking project that should certainly be tried and prototyped to see if it warrants replication across the USA
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2019 Design Jury
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Kai-Uwe Bergmann, FAIA Chair
Alana Goldweit
Daniel Sundlin
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