The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) announced winners of the 2014 BSA Design Awards at its fourth annual celebratory gala, which took place at the InterContinental last month. 63 honorees were recognized across nine categories, including 17 Honor Awards for Design Excellence, Housing Design, Unbuilt Architecture and Design, Healthcare Facilities Design, Small Firms Design; the Harleston Parker Medal; and a People’s Choice Award.
This year’s Harleston Parker Medal, which was established in 1921, and aims to acknowledge an exceptional piece of architecture within the City of Boston or Metropolitan Park District limits, went to Foster + Partners and CBT Architects for their work on the Art of the Americas wing at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. The jury noted: “[the design’s] minimalist expression not only allows the focus to be on the art, but goes beyond that to highlight it. The forms of the architecture are strong and clean yet they offer new insights with each layer of closer examination, without yielding a flawed move at any scale of detail, a tribute not only to design but to craftsmanship and execution.”
The People’s Choice Award, determined through an online competition organized by the BSA, allowed the public to collaborate with the Harleston Parker Medal jury to determine a second outstanding work of architecture within the city. William Rawn Associates, Architects claimed this year’s prize for the firm’s design of the East Boston branch of the Boston Public Library.
The BSA also honored Stephanie Horowitz, AIA, who is the managing director at Zero Energy Design (ZED) with an inaugural Earl R. Flansburgh Young Architects Award, which recognizes achievements of an architect under the age of 40. Fred Koetter, FAIA and Susie Kim, AIA, founding principals of Koetter Kim & Associates, were given the BSA Award of Honor, granted to individuals for profound lifetime contributions to the profession and to the BSA.
For more information on each of the Honor Award winners below, please follow the link to its ARCHITECT Magazine Project Gallery page.
Honor Awards: Design Excellence
Duke University Environment Hall, Nicholas School of the Environment, Payette, Durham
E+//226-232, Interface Studio Architects (ISA); Urbanica, Boston
Center for Art and Education, Ann Beha Architects, Shelburne, Vt.
Island Residence, Peter Rose + Partners, Edgartown, Mass.
Honor Awards: Housing Design
East House, Peter Rose + Partners, Chilmark, Mass.
Soft House, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Hamburg
E+//226-232, Interface Studio Architects (ISA); Urbanica, Boston
132 Subsidized Dwellings, Ensanche de Vallecas 20, estudio.entresitio, Madrid
#house#1,130, estudio.entresitio, Madrid
Honor Awards: Unbuilt Architecture and Design
Adaptation + The Void, Matt Burgermaster, Long Branch, N.J.
Glasnevin Centenary Chapel, NADAAA, Glassnevin, Ireland
Honor Awards: Healthcare Facilities Design
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Stanley Beaman & Sears, Perkins+Will, Orlando, Fla.
Marlborough Hospital Cancer Center, The S/L/A/M Collaborative, Marlborough, Mass.
Duke Cancer Center, Tsoi/Kobus & Associates; Cooper Robertson & Partners, Durham, N.C.
Smilow Cancer Hospital, Shepley Bulfinch, New Haven, Conn.
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Perkins+Will, Charlestown, Mass.
Honor Award: Small Firm Award
Proyecto Clamor de Paz, Paul Lukez Architecture, Guaimaca, Honduras
Harleston Parker Medal
Art of the Americas Wing, MFA, Foster + Partners with CBT Architects, Boston
People’s Choice Award
Boston Public Library, East Boston Branch, William Rawn Associates, Architects, Boston
For more information on each of the Honor Award winners below, please follow the link to its ARCHITECT Magazine Project Gallery page.
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JURORS
Healthcare Facilities Design
Cynthia Gerlach, AIA, Robinson Green Beretta
Timothy Kennedy, AIA, n|e|m|d architects
Mehdi Khosrovani, AIA, n|e|m|d architects
Housing Design
Beth Broome, Architectural Record
Lance Jay Brown FAIA, AIA New York Chapter
Heather Campisano, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Amy Korte, AIA, Arrowstreet
Small Firms Design
Stephanie Horowitz, AIA, ZeroEnergy Design
Laura Meyer, Meyer & Meyer
Matthew Simitis, AIA, LDa Architecture and Interiors
Carl Solander, AIA, Reverse Architecture
Unbuilt Architecture and Design
Eden Dutcher, GroundView
David Hacin, FAIA, Hacin + Associates
Kelly Hutzell, AIA, over,under; Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Lofgren, AIA, Baker Design Group
Honor Awards for Design Excellence
Janet Bloomberg, AIA, KUBE architecture
Peter D. Cook, AIA, Gensler
Susan Piedmont-Palladino. Virginia Tech, Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center
Joanna Schmickel, AIA, cox graae + spack architects
Stephen C. Wright, AIA, LEO A DALY
Harleston Parker Award
Mette Aamodt, AIA, aamodt / plumb architects
Michael Cannizzo, AIA, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Philip J. Casey, Jr., AIA, CBT Architects
Stella Gould, WCVB-TV’s Chronicle
David Lee, FAIA, Stull and Lee
Kaki Martin, Klopfer Martin Design Group
Patrick McCafferty, Arup
Mary Skelton Roberts, Barr Foundation
Kathy Sharpless, MassArt Foundation
Gretchen Von Grossmann, MBTA
Full jury list provided by the BSA.
