Elevate: 2023 Design & Honor Awards

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Design Awards

Jury

Finalist Listing

Wiiner Listing (by category of entry)

Excellence

Honor

Merit

Student Awards

People’s Choice

Honor Awards

Jury

Educator of the Year

Emerging Professional of the Year

Bronze Medal Award

Carmen Stan, AIA: Elevation of the Profession Award

Architecture Firm of the Year

Bernard B. Rothschild Jury

Bernard B. Rothschild Award

Design Awards Jury

Pascale Sablan,

Senior Associate | Adjaye Associate (New York, NY)

2023-2024 NOMA President | 2021 AIA Whitney M. Young. Jr Award Winner

FAIA, NOMA

2023 Design Awards Jury Chair

Amanda Loper, AIA Principal | David Baker Architects Birmingham, AL

Josh Shelton, AIA Partner | El Dorado Portland, OR

Finalists

Residential

La Croix House | Martin Rickles Studio

O4W Bungalow | Studio SOGO

Sense of Light & Place | Harrison Design

23 Perry | Lightroom, LLC

Renovation | Restoration | Adaptive-Reuse

Crux Retail | studio arcus

Redivivus | Robert M. Cain, Architect

Atlanta Montessori International School - Druid Hills | Studio SOGO

Neva Lomason Memorial Library | RAD, Rickman Architecture + Design

Georgia Historical Society Hodgson Hall | Lynch Associates

Architects, PC

Pritzker Commons and Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library Transformation - Harvard University Science Center |

Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Canopies and Terminal Modernization | HOK; Stanley, Love-Stanley; Chasm Architecture, L.L.C. (Joint HJ+P Venture)

Interior

Le Bon Nosh | Brink Design

Jio World Centre Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre | TVS

Finalists

Unbuilt

Campbellton BRT | Xmetrical

Confidential Birmingham Headquarters | Perkins&Will

First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta Addition | Houser Walker Architecture

Built

Norcross Library | Cas Architecture

Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center | Cas Architecture

Morrow High School, Clayton County Public School | Perkins&Will

Jackson Park | Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects

Florida Polytechnic University Applied Research Center | HOK

Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering | Perkins&Will

Student

Metaphysical Museum of Reality | Savannah College of Art & Design

RING Habitat | Savannah College of Art & Design

Isolation | Savannah College of Art & Design

Fibonacci Nook | Kennesaw State University

Foster Atlanta | Savannah College of Art & Design

Symbiotic and Intimate Community Living Paradigm | Savannah

College of Art & Design

EXCELLENCE

Project: Category:

Firm:

Atlanta Montessori International School - Druid Hills

Studio SOGO

Owner: Location:

Endeavor Schools

Atlanta, GA

A beautiful piece of historic architecture becomes the new home for Atlanta Montessori International. This 1925 beauty has undergone a massive renovation, bringing new life to this Mediterranean Style mansion in Historic Druid Hills. The completed 11,000 SF campus, boasts a beautifully restored masonry building, two updated mid-century accessory structures, each with clean interiors focused on biophilic design, and expansive landscape overhaul with play area and vegetable gardens for the students and their teachers.

Photo Credits:

Lead Architect:

Renovation | Restoration | Adaptive - Reuse over $1M

Leslie Ellsworth, RA

Garey Gomez

Firm:

Project: Category: Morrow High School Perkins&Will Clayton County Public Schools

Owner: Location:

GA

Lead Architect:

The new Morrow High School replaces an aging, overcrowded and outdated facility with new state-of-the-art instructional and athletic facilities intended to celebrate the Morrow community’s pride in their diverse, vibrant culture. The new building responds to site constraints by re-thinking the traditional educational “box” with modern, inspiring and site-specific spaces. The school provides both traditional instruction in the liberal arts and sciences as well as career and technical education.

Photo Credits:

Barbara Crum,

Built Morrow,

Jonathan Hilyer

Marco Nicotera, Bruce McEvoy, Jared Serwer, Steven Brown

HONOR

Project: Category:

Firm:

23 Perry Lightroom, LLC

Owner: Location:

Small-town living meets big city luxuries as this 100 plus year old former Georgia Cigar Factory turned modern loft residence encompasses a true modern industrial aesthetic. Nestled in the heart of historic downtown Newnan, this 7000sqft home was lovingly brought to life with a massive restoration/ renovation. Designer details abound and no element was overlooked as original heart-pine beams were repurposed into interior cladding for the stairwell and any

Photo Credits:

Lead Architect:

Compass (Matthew Doyle) Newnan, GA

Residential Over $1M

William Carpenter FAIA Chad D Reineke AIA

bricks pulled from demolition were used in the reconstructed façade.

Lightroom

Project: Category: Confidential Birmingham Headquarters

Firm:

Owner: Location:

Perkins&Will Confidential

Birmingham, AL

Unbuilt

Lead Architect:

Bruce McEvoy,

Kim Rousseau, Joe Jamgochian, Zan Stewart, Jonathan Aprati, Nicole Seekely, Ping Wong, Rachel Flanigan

This Birmingham headquarters will introduce a new paradigm in workplace design that maximizes employee well-being by celebrating and preserving nature. Conceived as a deeply green “un-office,” the building is designed to be one with its natural context, fully imbedded in the dramatic existing topography and using a local material palette throughout. Two building “hillforms” stretch to meet one another over a ravine below.

Photo Credits:

Atlantic Archives

Project: Category:

Firm:

Georgia Historical Society Hodgson Hall

Lynch Associates Architects, PC

Owner: Location:

Georgia Historical Society

Savannah, Georgia

Renovation | Restoration | Adaptive - Reuse over $1M

Lead Architect:

Andrew Lynch

Rebecca Lynch

Georgia Historical Society’s Hodgson Hall is one of the most significant structures within Savannah’s Landmark Historic District. Designed by Detlef LienauIt, the founder of the American Institute of Architects, Hodgson Hall is one of the oldest library buildings in the United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The project scope included two major components. The first was the full interior restoration of the original library space, ground floor office spaces and all the building systems.

Photo Credits:

HONOR

Photo Credits:

@ericsunphotography

Project: Category:

Firm:

Le Bon Nosh

Brink Design

Owner: Location:

Le Bon Nosh

Atlanta, GA

Lead Architect:

Associate Firm: commune

Le Bon Nosh is a European-influenced cafe and market meant to encourage and showcase community gathering. The aroma of the coffee bar at the entrance sets the tone for the space. Inside, an active teaching kitchen anchors the center, flanked on one side by a market cafe with communal tables, and a formal, more intimate dining room with a wine bar on the other. The private dining area of the mezzanine is accented by hand-painted wallpaper and features a quiet balcony overlooking a side street. The entire space is wrapped with warm and carefully detailed wood storefronts. The design of Le Bon Nosh was a true collaboration between the entire design team working to execute the vision of the owner.

Interior Andrew Haney

HONOR

Project: Category:

Firm:

Jackson Park

Mack Scogin Merrill

Owner: Location:

Tishman Speyer

Queens, New York

Lead Architect:

Mack Scogin, Merrill Elam, David West

Associate Firm: Goldstein, Hill & West Architects (now Hill West)

Jackson Park, located in Long Island City, Queens, New York, consists of three high-rise residential towers, one low-rise amenity building, a one and a half acre south facing green space and a site extensive subterranean service/parking level. The 1,871 rent stabilized apartments are comprised of studio, one, two, three, and four-bedroom units. Amenities include pools, basketball court, and fitness center.The three towers hold the sidewalk edge with retail. The three glass clad towers compliment each other and define the south facing green space. At ground level, light filled amenity and social spaces look onto the green space.

Photo Credits:

Built

Kevin Scott

MERIT

Firm:

Project: Category: La Croix House Martin Rickles Studio

Owner: Location:

Confidential Atlanta, GA

The La Croix House is a lighthearted partial renovation of a 1930’s urban single-family home, inspired by our client’s favorite sparkling water brand, her love for entertaining, traveling, and her cat Oates. While the result is intentionally playful, serious functional, structural, and ecological problems were resolved through an interdisciplinary collaboration, which prioritized a sense of place, site health and connection between interior and exterior spaces.

Photo Credits:

Lead Architect:

Residential Under $1M Jennifer Martin, Carley Rickles

@Dessa Lohrey

Project: Category:

Firm:

O4W Bungalow

Studio SOGO

Owner: Location:

Confidential

Atlanta, Georgia

Nestled in the heart of Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, this classic 1920’s craftsman bungalow received a modern-style addition providing the homeowners with some much-needed space in which to retreat, to entertain, and to enjoy. The addition’s modern lines respond to the existing in scale and massing. From the start, the bungalow addition and renovation was respectful of the existing structure and character of the house and surrounding neighborhood. Foreseeing the family’s current and future needs, the spaces were scaled and organized in a way that would accommodate their daily needs for decades, while also providing flexibility for change.

Photo Credits:

Lead Architect:

@patrickheagney

Residential Under $1M

Leslie Ellsworth, RA Gabby Black

Project:

Firm:

Crux Retail studio arcus

Owner: Location:

Georgia Historical Society Kennesaw, GA

Lead Architect:

A nondescript industrial building was carefully renovated into a compelling creative office and fabrication space. With a limited budget and short schedule of less than a year, the project focused on the selective removal of unnecessary elements in order to simplify the overall design and make the space a more efficient and inviting place to work. The design plays within the constraints of a pre-engineered metal building to make a space that is bright and uplifting. Such a careful renovation ultimately results in a nearly recognizable building that exemplifies the personality of the company.

Photo Credits:

Category:

Garey Gomez

Renovation | Restoration | Adaptive - Reuse under $1M

Thomas Hardy

Project: Category: First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta Addition

Firm:

Houser Walker Architecture

Owner: Location:

First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta Atlanta, GA

Three years after Marthasville was renamed Atlanta in 1845, a small group of Presbyterians founded a church. 175 years later, the story of First Presbyterian Church parallels the story of Atlanta. Today, First Presbyterian is entwined in the daily life of Midtown Atlanta. The campus is a spiritual and civic hub and delivers essential services to the city’s most neglected. This work will improve the church’s functional operations as they move into their 3rd century of ministries. A new contemporary worship center and central gathering space addition will reshape the church’s physical presence to better reflect the radically hospitable and welcoming spirit.

Photo Credits:

Lead Architect:

Unbuilt Hank Houser,

Rick Bizot, Nicholas Purcell, Jiangpu Meng, Greg Walker

Project: Category: Campbellton BRT

Firm:

Xmetrical

Owner: Location:

MARTA Atlanta, GA

Lead Architect:

The Campbellton Road Community Investment Corridor (CIC) is a proposed urban revitalization project along one of Southwest Atlanta’s main arterial roads. Conceived by MARTA, Atlanta’s transit authority, the Campbellton CIC aims to implement a new bus rapid transit (BRT) service route as a backbone and catalyst for future transit-oriented development along the corridor. MARTA commissioned this initial design phase of the Campbellton BRT to conduct urban analysis of existing conditions, identify opportunities and inspirations for development, propose improved and unifying urban design strategies, and design fully developed

Photo Credits:

Unbuilt Jordache Avery

Student Design Awards Jury

Elizabeth Glass, AIA Associate Partner Rardin & Carroll Architects

Parker Stewart AIA Project Designer | Associate HKS Inc.

Michael Sena, AIA Urban Designer HKS Inc.

EXCELLENCE

EXCELLENCE

Project:

Student:

Metaphysical Museum of Reality

Location:

Asheville, North Carolina

School: Instructor(s):

Savannah School of Art & Design

Daniel Brown

The Metaphysical Museum of Reality, materializes the internet and virtualizes the natural world to create a new dimension where we can all genuinely connect, no matter our physical location. The architecture itself takes advantage of the gap between perception and reality, transcending what is possible in the physical world. Ultimately serving as an instrument to reflect on what the semantics of reality entail.

Daniel Jaraba

Project: Location: RING Habitat

Student:

Sanket Gunjal

School: Instructor(s):

The primary design concept is to adore the sense of place and promote flexibility in design. The heart of the project lies in the outline of the form that plays on the concept of interior-exterior and on the desire to immerse the user in a unique environment. The design is placed into an open patch around the creek, which limits the consumption and processing techniques of the surroundings, a gesture of integrity to respect the original morphology and the flora and fauna of the region.

Maggie Mcmanus

Savannah School of Art & Design

Avon, Colorado

HONOR

EXCELLENCE

Project:

Student:

Alyssa Halloran

School: Instructor(s):

Savannah School of Art & Design

Michael Hill

Location:

Derived from the innate purity of New Zealand’s landscape, the design for the World Expo Pavilion reflects the concept of isolation in contrast with invitation. The sunken mountains feed into the ground, reflected in the spheres blending into the reflection pond and supporting the concept of integration into the landscape. A pathway carving through the site encourages a journey through the country, emphasizing the dignity of the silver fern, the need for natural isolation, and an ode to Māori culture.

Isolation

Osaka, Japan

EXCELLENCE

Project:

Student:

School:

Kennesaw State University

Instructor(s):

Zamila Karimi

Location:

Fibonacci Nook is an outdoor pop-up library that allows architects to interrogate innovative ways of responding to the construction of architectural elements to suit user needs. Inspired by the work of Rem Koolhaas in Elements of Architecture, this project aims to reconstitute the typology of Wall as a living surface as a multi-faceted assemblage to respond to the programmatic needs: a book nook with seating and collaborative spaces. Derived from the Fibonacci curve and its proportions, the design is a component-based modular system for custom arrangements.

Nadirah Ali | Laia Bevelle | Maria del Valle | Pau Drexel | Camilo Gonzalez Contreras | Coderio King | Cody Kucharski | Luke Mceachren | Ana Valdez Tello

Fibonacci Nook

Marietta, Georgia

Photo Credits: Zamila Karimi

Project: Location: Foster Atlanta Sophia Rodriguez

Atlanta, GA

Student:

School: Instructor(s):

Savannah School of Art & Design

Foster Atlanta proposes independent housing for those who need a place to begin. A community and career center spark life in Midtown, while a marketplace sits as the steadfast foundation below. Flush with an existing station, public transport is reimagined.Atlanta is a powerhouse of capitalism defined by its communities. This architectural intervention seeks to strengthen the community by empowering the individual. This relationship is intricate…and necessary. The structural system throughout consists of simple timber connections–each piece reliant on the other to stand.

Mike Hill

Project: Location: Symbiotic and Intimate Community Living Paradigm

Student:

Xiangyun Mou | Shiyu Wu

School: Instructor(s):

Savannah School of Art & Design

Dalian, China

The proposal of the new community model is neither intended to restore or revive local traditional village models highly nor completely deny and go against the actual development status quo, to overthrow the existing government resettlement community model to carry out another reconstruction.The new community model is another development option that is more suitable for local conditions, and it is also a reflection and questioning of the village development strategy that the government has chosen. It will be an inherited and authentic community model.

Huy Ngo, Hsu-Jen Huang, Celeste Lovette Guichard

PEOPLE’S CHOICE

Category

Residential under $1M

Project Firm

Hartwell Cabin

Lightroom, LLC

Lead Architect

William Carpenter FAIA, Chad D Reineke AIA

Lightroom

Category

Residential over $1M

Project Firm

23 Perry

Lightroom, LLC

Lead Architect

William Carpenter FAIA, Chad D Reineke AIA

Photo Credit:

Photo Credit:

Lightroom

Category

Renovation/Restoration/ Adaptive-Reuse under $1M

Project Firm

Falling Rabit Studio SOGO

Lead Architect

Leslie Ellsworth, RA Gabby Black

Category

Renovation/Restoration/ Adaptive-Reuse over $1M

Project Firm

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Canopies and Terminal Modernization

HOK; Stanley, Love-Stanley; Chasm Architecture, L.L.C. (Joint HJ+P Venture)

Lead Architect

Ripley Rasmus Bryan Hutchinson

Photo Credit:

Photo Credit: @creativesourcesphotography

Marc Mauldin

PEOPLE’S CHOICE

Interior

Category Project Firm

Victory Sandwich Lightroom, LLC

Lead Architect

William Carpenter FAIA, Chad D Reineke AIA

Lightroom

Category

Unbuilt

Project Firm

Emory University Health Sciences Research Building II

HOK

Lead Architect

Chirag Mistry

Todd BertscH

Michael Graham

Randy Kray

Aaron Wilner

Ellen Ignacio

Alex Hassell

Scott Rose

Photo Credit:

Photo Credit:

Category

Built

Project Firm

Avondale Estates Town Green Pavilions

SSOE / Stevens & Wilkinson now SSOE Group

Lead Architect

Sheri Locke

Ron Stang

Bill Clark

Category

Built

Project Firm

Chamblee City Hall

Goodwyn Mills Cawood

Lead Architect

Amy Bell

Photo Credit:

Photo Credit: Reeves Younng, LLC

Marc Mauldin

PEOPLE’S CHOICE

Student Intertwine – Re-Connecting Loose Ends of the City

School

Category Project Firm

Savannah School of Art & Design

Lead Architect

Student

Miloni Shah

Category

Renovation/Restoration/ Adaptive-Reuse over $1M

Project Firm

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Canopies and Terminal Modernization

HOK; Stanley, Love-Stanley; Chasm Architecture, L.L.C. (Joint HJ+P Venture)

Lead Architect

Ripley Rasmus

* Additional project team information for Design Award winners can be found on page 42.

Bryan Hutchinson

Photo Credit:

Photo Credit: @creativesourcesphotography

Honor Awards Jury

Heather Potts Lang, AIA Principal | Potts Lang Architects

Danita Brown, AIA Regional Historic Preservation and Fine Arts Officer |U. S. General Services

Tariq Abdullah, AIA Principal | Tarchitects

Dierdre “Dee” Leclair, AIA & Ryan Taylor, AIA, are awarded the 2023 Bronze Medal for their tireless commitment to AIA Georgia, and members of the profession in the area of advocacy. For the past few years, Dee & Ryan have led the Building Codes Network subgroup, educating hundreds of architects throughout the state on building code changes. Both consistently build and maintain relationships with state officials, public administrators, and interest groups, lending their voices and time to advocate and advance the profession.

Julie Kim, AIA is recognized as the 2023 Educator of the Year, for her innovative approaches to mentoring future leaders in the profession and her role as founder and director of the Flourishing Communities Collaborative. This latter effort provides a curricular model that allows students, faculty, practitioners, and the communities the program serves to apply design thinking and architect-driven problem solving for disadvantaged urban communities. Her mentoring vision has led to a new curricular model for an interdisciplinary approach that gives students insights from non-College of Architecture perspectives.

Dwell Design Studio is the recipient of the 2023 Architecture Firm of the Year award. Dwell is a 14-year-old company headquartered in Atlanta, with offices in Washington DC, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Orlando, Richmond, and Charlotte. Dwell takes a unique approach to the profession with its focus on Quality, Consistency, and Communication, as well as our distinctive firm culture. Dwell’s commitment to design is seen not only in the awards their project win but in the experiences user of their spaces gain. Many leaders of their firm leader are engaged in advancing the profession, holding leadership positions in AIA, AFGA, and ULI. Dwell has been named to the Best Places to Work in Atlanta list for five of the past six years, a rarity for architectural firms. The commitment that Dwell Design Studio shows to their employees, design standards, and the overall profession makes them beyond deserving of the prestigious honor of Architecture Firm of the Year.

Nicole Seekely, AIA, is the inaugural recipient of the Carmen Stan Elevation of the Profession award. Nicole is a Project Architect at Perkins & Will. She served on the AIA Georgia Board for 5 years, breathing new life into the AIA Georgia Design and Honor Awards during her tenure and taking important roles in political advocacy. As a designer, her projects have received numerous accolades, and she was one of the founders and longtime leaders of the Equity in Architecture initiative. Her career has demonstrated her passion for design excellence, service to the profession, and a commitment to equity in the AEC industry.

Bernard B. Rotschild, FAIA Jury

Merrill Elam, AIA Principal | Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Inc.

Bill Clark, AIA Principal | SSOE Group

Kevin Cantley, AIA Chairman | Cooper Carry

Mack Scogin, AIA Principal | Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Inc.

Additional Project Team Information

La Croix House

Martin Rickles Studio | GC: Christian Restrepo | Landscape Contractor: In Bloom

04W Bungalow

Architecture & Interiors: Leslie Ellsworth, RA | Gabby Black | Engineer - Structural: Stability Engineering | GC: Earth Sky Builders | Custom Hood: Bjork Studio | Steel Fabricator: Jonathan Hanson

23 Perry

GC: JW Construction Management

Crux Retail Engineer - Structural: CMST Engineering | Engineer - MEP: Westside Engineering | GC: Due West Builders | Consultant: Lighting & Associates Inc

Georgia Historical Society Hodgson Hall

Engineer - MEP: Dulohery Weeks | Engineer -

Structural: Tharpe Engineering Group | GC: JTVS Builders, Inc. | Landscape Architect: Witmer Jones

Keefer

Atlanta Montessori International School –

Druid Hills

Architecture & Interiors: Leslie Ellsworth, RA | Engineer - Structural: Stability Engineering | Engineer - MEP: Proficient Engineering, Inc | GC: K2/ Le | Fabricator: Arc Design

Le Bon Nash

Associate Firm: commune | Interior Designer: commune - Ashley Takacs | Engineer - MEP/

FP: Conway & Owen - Kevin Finlay PE, Annette Peterson PE | Structural Engineer: McVeigh and Mangum - Brett Perkins, PE | Lighting: Sean

O’Connor Lighting - David Hahn | Acoustic: Newcomb and Boyd - John Garretson

First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta Addition

Engineer - Civil: Kimley-Horn | Engineer - MEP:

Newcomb-Boyd | Engineer - Structural: Uzun + Case | Landscape Architect: Kimley-Horn | Consultant - AV: Clark AV | Consultant - Acoustical:

Acustica Design | Consultant - Code: Code Con-

sultants Inc. | Consultant - Interior Design: Linda

Rathje | Construction Manager - JE Dunn

Confidential Birmingham Headquarters

Architect, Interiors, Landscape: Perkins&Will |

Structural Engineer: Walter P. Moore | Consulting

Structural Engineer: Fast + Epp | MEP Engineer: Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. | Consulting MEP Engineer: Introba | Civil Engineer: LBYD Engineering | GC: Hoar Construction

Jackson Park

Associate Firm: Goldstein, Hill & West Architects (now Hill West)

Architect of Record: Hill West Architects | Landscape Architect: HMWhite | Interior Designer: Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects – Towers

B1 and B2 | Interior Designer: Clodagh Design –

Amenity Building and Tower A | Engineer - Structural: WSP Building Structures | Engineer - MEP: WSP USA | Engineer - Geotechnical: Mueser

Rutledge Consulting Engineers | Engineer - Civil: Philip Habib and Associates | Engineer - MEP:

Edwards and Zuck D.P.C. | Façade Consultant: AJ

LaBelle & Partners, LLC | Acoustical Consultant: Longman Lindsey | Environmental Consultant:

Fleming-Lee Shue, Inc. | Environmental Consult-

ant: Roux Associates Inc. / Remedial Engineering

P.C. | Environmental Consultant: Hillmann Consulting, LLC | LEED Consultant: Steven Winter Associates | LEED Consultant: Vidaris, Inc. (now Socotec) | Pool Consultant: Trace Pool Design Lothrop Associates | Amenity Consultants: American Leisure (now LIVunLtd) | Lighting Consultant:

SBLD Studio | GC: Turner Construction – Tower

A | GC: Hudson Meridian Construction - Tower B1 and Amenity Building | GC: Triton Construction Company - Tower B2

Morrow High School

Architect of Record and Design Architect: Perkins&Will | Interior Design: Perkins&Will | Engineer - Civil: Eberly & Associates | Engineer

- MEP: Andrews, Hammock, & Powell | Engineer

- Structural: Uzun+Case, LLC | Consultant – Food Services: Camacho | GC: Meja Construction, Inc.

Fibonacci Nook

Additional Students: Christopher Bloom | Falak Alam | Jason Rosales | Jhanvi Patel | Oscar Marquez | Sophia Nguyen | Victoria Cioffi