Thirty-five projects win in 2017 AIANY Design Awards

Every year, the AIA New York Design Awards recognize the exceptional work of its members, locally practicing architects and New York-based projects. For 2017, the jury selected 35 winning projects out of 379 submissions in four categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. The Best in Competition award was given to Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Executive Architect Gensler for the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University. (No one won the title in last year's competition.)

From large-scale urban interventions to temporary installations, this year's winning projects  — which were granted either an Honor or Merit — were judged on design quality, response to its context and community, program resolution, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique. The Architecture category reeled in 191 entries, and 22 of the 35 winning projects are based in New York from firms like Gluckman Tang, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, stpmj, and more.

Winners will be celebrated during the Honors and Awards Luncheon at Cipriani Wall Street on April 21. On the same day, the winning projects will be displayed in the 2017 AIANY Design Awards exhibition at the Center for Architecture until May 6, 2017.

See the full list of winners below.

BEST IN COMPETITION (cover photo)

Architect: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Executive Architect: Gensler
Landscape Architect: SCAPE
Project: The Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University
Location: New York, NY

ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURE - HONORS

Architect: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Executive Architect: Gensler
Landscape Architect: SCAPE
Project: The Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University
Location: New York, NY

Architect: Gluckman Tang Architects
Landscape Architect: LaGuardia Design Group
Project: De Maria Pavilion
Location: Bridgehampton, NY

Architect: Steven Holl Architects
Associate Architect: BNIM
Project: University of Iowa Visual Arts Building
Location: Iowa City, IA

ARCHITECTURE - MERIT

Architect: 1100 Architect
Project: Main: East Side Lofts
Location: Frankfurt, Germany

Architect: Andrew Berman
Architect Project: SculptureCenter
Location: Long Island City, NY

Architect: Deborah Berke Partners
Architect-of-Record: RATIO
Landscape Architect: DAVID RUBIN Land Collective
Project: Cummins Indy Distribution Headquarters
Location: Indianapolis, IN

Preservation Architect: John G. Waite Associates, Architects
Landscape Architect: OLIN
Project: Restoration and Renovation of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA

ARCHITECTURE - MERIT continued

Architect: Kennedy & Violich Architecture
Landscape Architect: Richard Burck Associates
Project: Tozzer Anthropology Building, Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, MA

Architect: nARCHITECTS
Project: A/D/O
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Project: Public Safety Answering Center II
Location: Bronx, NY

Architect: stpmj Architecture
Project: Shear House (Environment Sensitive Typology)
Location: Kyung Buk (Yecheon), Korea

Architecture - MERIT continued

Architect: Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners
Associate Architect – Core and Shell: AGD Design
Associate Architect – Interiors: Associated Architects
Landscape Architect: ADI Limited
Project: Asia Society Hong Kong Center
Location: Hong Kong, China

Architect: Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners
Landscape Architect: Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects
Project: Kim and Tritton Residence Halls, Haverford College
Location: Haverford, PA

Architect: WORK Architecture Company
Restoration Architect: CTS Group Architecture/Planning
Project: Stealth Building Location: New York, NY

INTERIORS

INTERIORS - HONOR

Architect: A+I
Project: Squarespace Global Headquarters
Location: New York, NY

Architect: Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture
Project: Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Architect: Stephen Yablon Architecture
Project: Diane L. Max Health Center: Planned Parenthood Queens
Location: Long Island City, NY

INTERIORS - MERIT

Restoration Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle
Architectural Conservator: Cultural Heritage Conservation
Landscape Architects: Vogt Landscape Architects with Future Green Studio
Project: The Met Breuer Restoration
Location: New York, NY

Architects: BFDO Architects and 4|MATIV
Architect-of-Record: Marvel Architects
Project: Maple Street School
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Architect: LEVENBETTS
Project: Brooklyn Heights Interim Library
Location: Brooklyn, NY

INTERIORS - MERIT continued

Architect: Marvel Architects
Concept Design and Interior Design: Macro-Sea
Project: New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Architect: SPAN Architecture
Project: Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club Decorator Show House Installation
Location: New York, NY

Architect: STUDIOS Architecture
Project: One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
Location: New York, NY

PROJECTS

PROJECTS - HONOR

Architect: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Project: Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design, The Jewish Museum
Location: New York, NY

Architect: Practice for Architecture and Urbanism
Project: Penn Palimpsest
Location: New York, NY

Architect: Studio Joseph
Media Designer: Local Projects
Graphic Designer: Pentagram
Project: New York at Its Core, Museum of the City of New York
Location: New York, NY

PROJECTS - MERIT

Architect: Andrew Berman Architect
Project: Re-Envisioning Branch Libraries Design Study
Location: New York, NY

Architect: APTUM ARCHITECTURE
Project: Isla Rhizolith | Rhizolith Island
Location: Isla Grande, Cartagena, Colombia

PROJECTS - MERIT continued

Architect: Efficiency Lab for Architecture
Project: The Lima Art Museum New Contemporary Art Wing
Location: Lima, Peru

Architect: J. Mayer H. und Partner, Architekten
Project: XXX Times Square with Love
Location: New York, NY

Architect: StudioKCA
Project: NASA Orbit Pavilion
Location: San Marino, CA

URBAN DESIGN

MERIT

Architect: DLANDstudio Architecture + Landscape Architecture
Project: The Gowanus Canal Sponge Park Pilot
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Architect: Kohn Pederson Fox Associates
Landscape Architect: OLIN Project: New York City Housing Authority Red Hook Houses – Sandy Resiliency & Renewal Program Location: Brooklyn, NY

URBAN DESIGN - MERIT continued

Architect: ROGERS PARTNERS Architects + Urban Designers
Landscape Architect: Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
Project: Buckhead Park Over GA400
Location: Atlanta, GA

Architect: Studio V Architecture
Landscape Architect: Ken Smith Workshop
Project: Maker Park
Location: Brooklyn, NY

2017 AIANY Design Awards Jurors: 
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
Peter Waldman, School of Architecture, University of Virginia

All images courtesy of 2017 AIANY Design Awards.