AIA New York announces winners of 2024 Design Awards

January 10, 2024

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.

Trinity Church Wall Street. Image courtesy of Christopher Payne

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. Image courtesy of Iwan Baan

Perelman Performing Arts Center 
Architect: REX 
Executive Architect: Davis Brody Bond 
Interior Design (Lobby, Restaurant): Rockwell Group 
Location: Financial District, Manhattan

Lasting Joy Brewery. Image courtesy of Eric Petschek

Merits:
Lasting Joy Brewery
Architect: Auver Architecture
Location: Tivoli, NY

Bedford Green House I. Image courtesy of Michael Grimm

Bedford Green House I 
Architect: ESKW/Architects 
Landscape Architect: Billie Cohen, Ltd. 
Location: Bedford, Brooklyn

Brooklyn Public Library East Flatbush Branch. Image courtesy of Naho Kubota

Brooklyn Public Library East Flatbush Branch 
Architect: LEVENBETTS 
Location: East Flatbush, Brooklyn

Powerhouse Arts. Image courtesy of Iwan Baan

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

The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation. Image courtesy of Iwan Baan

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 

Schiff House Daycare Center at CCNY. Image courtesy of Alexander Severin

Merits:
Schiff House Daycare Center at CCNY 
Architect: Michielli + Wyetzner Architects 
Location: Harlem, Manhattan

Newark Liberty International Airport, Terminal C, Recomposure Benches. Image courtesy of Thomas L. Grassi

Projects

Honors:
Newark Liberty International Airport, Terminal C, Recomposure Benches 
Architect: HNTB 
Location: Newark, NJ 

The Refreshing Waters. Image courtesy of Dean Kaufman

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. Image courtesy of Michael Moran

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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