AIA New York announces winners of 2024 Design Awards
Bedford Green House I. Image courtesy of Michael Grimm
The winners of the 2024 AIA New York Design Awards have been revealed, with 13 of the 22 winning projects located in New York. Each submitted project had to be completed by an AIANY member, an architect or designer practicing in NY, or be a NY project designed by an architect or designer from elsewhere. The winning projects range from temporary installations and exhibitions to large-scale urban interventions and are awarded in four categories, including Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design.
The winning projects were granted either an “Honor,” “Merit,” or “Citation” and chosen for their design quality, response to the surrounding context and community, resolution, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique. The judges selected from nearly 200 entries before settling on 22 award winners.
Here are the statistics for this year’s awards:
Architecture: 14 total (4 honors; 7 merits; 3 citations)
Interiors: 3 total (1 honor; 2 merits)
Projects: 4 total (2 honors; 2 citations)
Urban design: 1 total (1 merit)
A common theme among the winning designs was their consideration of details on a human scale and their ability to improve the experience of the built environment, regardless of their scale. Two projects that exemplified these characteristics were Interboro’s The Refreshing Waters, a temporary cooling station in the Hunts Point-Longwood neighborhood of the Bronx, and HNTB’s new benches at Newark Liberty International Airport’s Terminal C.
“We loved projects like The Refreshing Waters and the benches at Newark as you have to see them for what they are. Rather than assessing them in relation to larger projects, you must think of them as making people’s lives better. We think that is the way that architecture and interior design should go,” Fuensanta Nieto, a juror and founder of Nieto Sobejano Architectos, said.
The winning projects across NY can be found below and arranged by award category:
Architecture
Honors:
Trinity Church Wall Street
Architect: MBB Architects
Restoration Architect: Building Conservation Associates
Landscape Architect: MNLA
Location: Financial District, Manhattan
Perelman Performing Arts Center
Architect: REX
Executive Architect: Davis Brody Bond
Interior Design (Lobby, Restaurant): Rockwell Group
Location: Financial District, Manhattan
Merits:
Lasting Joy Brewery
Architect: Auver Architecture
Location: Tivoli, NY
Bedford Green House I
Architect: ESKW/Architects
Landscape Architect: Billie Cohen, Ltd.
Location: Bedford, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Public Library East Flatbush Branch
Architect: LEVENBETTS
Location: East Flatbush, Brooklyn
Powerhouse Arts
Architect: PBDW Architects
Design Architect: Herzog & de Meuron
Landscape Architect: Ken Smith Workshop
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Citations:
Robert Olnick Pavilion
Architects: Alberto Campo Baeza and MQ Architecture
Location: Cold Spring, NY
Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History
Architect: Studio Gang
Architect of Record: Davis Brody Bond
Landscape Architect: Reed Hilderbrand
Location: Upper West Side, Manhattan
Interiors
Honors:
Galerie56
Architect: SheltonMindel
Location: New York, NY
Merits:
Schiff House Daycare Center at CCNY
Architect: Michielli + Wyetzner Architects
Location: Harlem, Manhattan
Projects
Honors:
Newark Liberty International Airport, Terminal C, Recomposure Benches
Architect: HNTB
Location: Newark, NJ
The Refreshing Waters
Architect: Interboro
Location: Hunts Point, The Bronx
Citations:
NYCHA Waste Yard Redevelopment
Landscape Architect: Grain Collective
Architect of Record: NDNY PLLC
Waste Management: Center for Zero Waste Design
Urban Design: architectureRED
Location: New York, NY
Mini Tower One
Architect: MODU
Location: Brooklyn, NY
The Center for Architecture will host an exhibition of the winning projects, which will open on May 2 at 6 p.m. and run through September 3.
A full list of this year’s winners can be found here.
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