AIA New York has announced 35 winners of its 2017 Design Awards, which recognizes a winning project's “design quality, response to its context and community, program resolution, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique.” The awards themselves will be presented at a symposium on April 21 at the Center for Architecture, according to AIANY's press release. In order to qualify, submissions had to be either projects completed by AIANY members, architects, or designers practicing in New York or projects in New York designed by architects and designers based elsewhere.
Selected from a pool of 379 entries, the 35 winners were split across four categories: 14 in Architecture, nine in Interiors, eight in Projects, and four in Urban Design. Twenty-two of the 35 are in New York City. The jury was made up of Barbara Bestor, FAIA, Bestor Architecture; Hagy Belzberg, FAIA, OAA, Belzberg Architects; Tatiana Bilbao, Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO; Elizabeth P. Gray, FAIA, Gray Organschi Architecture; Anne Fougeron, FAIA, Fougeron Architecture; V. Mitch McEwen, McEwen Studio; and Peter Waldman, School of Architecture, University of Virginia.
The winning projects will be recognized at the Honors and Awards Luncheon on April 21 at Cipriani Wall Street. Following the ceremony, the projects will be exhibited in the 2017 AIANY Design Awards exhibition at the Center for Architecture through May 6.
Honor Award Winners
Architecture
Best in Competition
The Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler
De Maria Pavilion, Bridgehampton, N.Y., by Gluckman Tang Architects
University of Iowa Visual Arts Building, Iowa City, Iowa, by Steven Holl Architects
Interiors
Squarespace Global Headquarters, New York, by A+I
Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., by Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture
Diane L. Max Health Center: Planned Parenthood Queens , Long Island City, N.Y., by Stephen Yablon Architecture
Projects
Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design, the Jewish Museum, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Penn Palimpsest, New York, by Practice for Architecture and Urbanism
New York at Its Core, Museum of the City of New York, by Studio Joseph
In addition to these nine honor award-winning projects, AIANY gave out another 26 merit awards in these same four categories. To see all of the AIANY award-winning projects, go to our Project Gallery.
