2021 AIA Awards - Regional & Urban Design
2021 AIA REGIONAL & URBAN DESIGN RECIPIENT, ESSEX CROSSING, NEW YORK, NY, SHOP ARCHITECTS
The 2021 Regional & Urban Design program recognizes the best in urban design, regional and city planning, and community development. The best planning accounts for the entire built environment, local culture, and available resources—modeling architecture’s promise and true value to communities.
Beyond Walls
Exploring how designers can activate connection through multiple interventions in the built environment, this project, a pro-bono effort, rallied the citizens of Lynn, Massachusetts, around art as a vital source of public engagement and civic improvement.
Essex Crossing
Fueled by a vision that orchestrates development at nine prominent and long-empty sites, this plan includes more than 2 million square feet of commercial, retail, and community-use space that will maintain the vitality of this historic, bustling neighborhood.
Haxtun - Saving Main Street
Like in many other small communities throughout America, the local health system and its medical centers are one of the largest single employers in Haxtun, Colorado.
Northeastern University Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex
Flow and movement are the defining features of this new academic precinct straddling Boston’s Roxbury and Fenway neighborhoods.
Rebuilding a Local Food Economy: Oahu, Hawai'i
Despite being the most inhabited remote landmass in the world, Hawaii imports more than 93% of its food.
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