James Beard Foundation Names Winners of 2015 Outstanding Restaurant Design Awards

Chicago's Bureau of Architecture and Design and New York's Soma Architects took top honors for projects in Chicago and Palm Springs, Calif.

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Brindille’s curved façade lends to subdued, intimate interior that complements the restaurant’s namesake tree-branch theme.

Courtesy Bureau of Architecture and Design

Brindille’s curved façade lends to subdued, intimate interior that complements the restaurant’s namesake tree-branch theme.

The James Beard Foundation announced the winners of this year’s Outstanding Restaurant Design Awards at a ceremony Monday. The foundation named winners in two categories—restaurants with 75 seats and under and those with 76 seats and over—from the nominees announced in March. Founding principals James Gorski and Tom Nahabedian of Chicago-based Bureau of Architecture and Design won the smaller restaurant category for their design of Brindille in Chicago. For the larger restaurant category, principal and founder Michel Abboud, Assoc. AIA, of New York’s Soma Architects won for Workshop Kitchen + Bar in Palm Springs, Calif.

For more information and images on the winning and nominated projects, visit ARCHITECT’s Project Gallery.

Brindille, Bureau of Architecture and Design, Chicago

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Brindille, Bureau of Architecture and Design, Chicago

Workshop Kitchen + Bar, SOMA, Palm Springs, Calif.

Courtesy SOMA

Workshop Kitchen + Bar, SOMA, Palm Springs, Calif.

Workshop Kitchen + Bar, SOMA, Palm Springs, Calif.

Courtesy SOMA

Workshop Kitchen + Bar, SOMA, Palm Springs, Calif.

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Sara Johnson

Sara Johnson is the former associate editor, design news at ARCHITECT. Previously, she was a fellow at CityLab. Her work has also appeared in San Francisco, San Francisco Brides, California Brides, DCist, Patchwork Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor.

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