2011 AIA Housing Awards
The AIA Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community established this awards program to emphasize the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit and a valuable national resource. The categories are (1) One- and Two-Family Custom Residences, (2) One- and Two-Family Production Homes, (3) Multifamily Housing, and (4) Specialized Housing. Click here to view all 2011 AIA Awards Recipients.
Category One: One- and Two-Family Custom Residences
Addition to an Historic Cape on a Coastal Farm
- Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
The team, tasked with designing an addition to a historic cape, successfully balanced past and present, and achieved the restoration of the structure's original function.
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Blair Barn House
- Alchemy LLC
The project takes cues from classic nineteenth-century barns and updates them to create a twenty-first century, fulltime house.
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Combs Point Residence
- Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
This necklace of buildings serves as both a center of activity and a quiet retreat for a family that treasures life on the lake.
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North Beach Residence
- Heliotrope Architects
The design brief called for a very low-impact, easy-to-maintain, summer home that provides necessary programmatic functions with minimum distractions from the land and the view.
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Town House
- Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
This renovation provided natural light, great variety, and a tastefully modern feel within a traditional townhouse.
Read moreCategory Two: One- and Two-Family Production Homes
100K Houses
- Interface Studio Architects LLC
These production homes were conceived as new housing for a new generation of young, green-minded, reurbanizing homebuyers.
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Category Three: Multi-family Living
50 Saint Peter Street/Historic Salem Jail
- Finegold Alexander + Associates
The project restored a three-building historic jail complex and adapted it for residential and mixed use, including a full-service restaurant and an exhibit space devoted to the history of the jail property.
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930 Poydras Residential Tower
- Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
Designed to re-imagine the typically horizontal condition of New Orleans' dense French Quarter, the project boasts a ninth-floor “courtyard level” to promote opportunities for residents to cross paths with one another.
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1111 E. Pike
- Olson Kundig Architects
Responding to the client's wishes to fill the disappearing stock of affordable housing in a unique area, the design looked to the history of the site and the neighborhood, Seattle's "Auto Row."
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Armstrong Place Senior and Family Housing
- David Baker + Partners, Architects
This complex development fills a formerly industrial city block with an innovative housing mix.
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Art Stable
- Olson Kundig Architects
The use of concrete, steel and glass draws upon the warehouse typology of the formerly industrial neighborhood, and the structure itself is even designed with a crane to lift heavy loads.
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Hancock Mixed Use Housing
- Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.
The design focused on achieving a balance between public parking, scale, active street presence, and the transition to the hillside neighborhood.
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Tassafaronga Village
- David Baker + Partners, Architects
This complex development is a new, green neighborhood that brings a diversity of affordable housing to an underserved area and repairs the deteriorated neighborhood fabric.
Read moreCategory Four: Specialized Housing
Haven for Hope
- Overland Partners Architects
Determined to change the plight of its homeless population, the City of San Antonio called for a comprehensive “campus of transformation,” which addresses and treats all root causes of homelessness.
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Northeastern University Building F
- William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.
Creating a vibrant, high-density environment that is active at all hours of the day, the building embodies the spirit of “living & learning.”
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The Schermerhorn
- Ennead Architects LLP
This large, urban, supportive housing facility serves as an example of an affective design response to unique site conditions.
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