U.S. General Services Administration Announces Winners of 2016 Design Awards

On Thursday, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) named the winners of this year’s Design Awards, handed out every two years to the project teams involved in the development of federal buildings. The awards program, which began in 1990, added a new category this year called the 10 Year Award, which this year honors buildings “substantially completed” within the decade between 1995 and 2005.

The Design Awards jury comprised Debra Lehman Smith, founding partner of LSM in Washington, D.C.; Bill Calhoun, vice chairman and executive vice president of U.S.-based Clark Construction Group; Gordon Gill, founding partner of Chicago- and Beijing-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; Judy Nitsch, the founding principal of Boston’s Nitsch Engineering; Theo Prudon, FAIA, founder of Prudon & Partners in New York; and Vesela Sretenović, a senior curator of modern and contemporary art at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.

10 Year Awards

John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Boston, Massachusetts

Lloyd D. George United States Courthouse by Cannon Dworsky Associates (now CannonDesign)
Las Vegas, Nevada

Honor Awards

United States Coast Guard Headquarters by Perkins+Will
Washington, D.C. (Honor Award in Planning)

Mariposa Land Port of Entry by Jones Studio
Nogales, Arizona (Honor Award in Architecture)

United States Courthouse Annex by Thomas Phifer and Partners
Salt Lake City, Utah (Honor Award in Architecture; Honor Award in Interiors)

United States Courthouse by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Los Angeles, California (Honor Award, On the Boards)

Social Security Administration National Support Center by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Urbana, Maryland (Honor Award in Engineering)

Clara Barton Apartment by Mills + Schnoering Architects
Washington, D.C. (Honor Award in Preservation)

New Deal Easel Paintings by Page Conservation (restoration)
Washington, D.C. (Honor Award in Conservation)

Suspended Light Pillars by James Carpenter Design Associates
United States Courthouse Annex, Salt Lake City, Utah (Honor Award in Art)

Citations

United States Land Port of Entry by The Miller Hull Partnership
San Ysidro, California (Citation in Planning)

United States Courthouse by William Rawn Associates, Architects
Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Citation in Architecture)

B.H. Whipple Federal Building by HGA Architects and Engineers (modernization); Cerny Associates (original building)
Fort Snelling, Minnesota (Citation in Engineering)

United States Coast Guard Headquarters by Andropogon Associates and HOK (landscape architect); Perkins+Will (design architect)
Washington, D.C. (Citation in Landscape)

One World Trade Center by Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel, Architects (interiors); Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (building)
New York, New York (Citation in Workplace)

Conrad B. Duberstein U.S. Bankruptcy Courthouse by Mifflin Bell & James Wetmore (original building); Goody Clancy (restoration)
Brooklyn, New York (Citation in Preservation)

Birch Bayh Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse by John Hall Rankin and Thomas Kellogg (original building); EYP (renovation)
Indianapolis, Indiana (Citation in Preservation; Citation in Conservation)

St. Elizabeths Campus by Grunley Construction Co. (construction)
Washington, D.C. (Citation in Construction)

Planar Pavilion by Andrea Zittel at the Denver Federal Center
Lakewood, Colorado (Citation in Art)

Number 123 by Leonardo Drew at the Mickey Leland Federal Building
Houston, Texas (Citation in Art)