Winners of 2009 AIA San Francisco Design Awards

The winners of the 2009 AIA San Francisco Design Awards have recently been honored at the gala of the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter.

Projects by local design firms were awarded in eight categories: Architecture, Interior Architecture, Energy + Sustainability, Integrate Practice, Unbuilt Design, Urban Design, Young Architects + Associates, as well as Special Achievement.

Bill Burke, a juror in the Energy + Sustainability category, said: “Good design includes both building aesthetics and environmental concerns—it all goes together. We’re seeing some outstanding projects that have made a serious commitment to minimizing their environmental impact, and the bar is definitely rising.”

The 2009 award-winning projects will be exhibited on the expo floor of the AIA Convention in San Franciso, April 30 - May 2, 2009.

Energy + Sustainability

Merit Award
Portola Valley Town Center (image below)
Siegel & Strain Architects and Goring and Straja Architects

Merit Award
Windrush School (image below)
Ratcliff

Citation Award
355 Eelventh Street
Aidlin Darling Design

Citation Award
San Francisco Friends School
Pfau Long Architecture with Page and Turnbull

Excellence in Architecture

Honor Award
Cathedral of Christ the Light (image below)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Honor Award
Congregation Beth Sholom Synagogue (image below)
Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects

Honor Award
Final(ly) House (image below)
Rothschild Schwartz architects, inc

Merit Award
355 Eleventh Street
Aidlin Darling Design

Merit Award
California Academy of Sciences
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Stantec Architecture and Arup

Merit Award
Caretaker Cottage and Office
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Citation Award
Laidley Street Residence
Zack / de Vito Architecture

Citation Award
Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center and Railton Place Housing
Herman Coliver Locus Architecture

Citation Award
Sava Pool
Mark Cavagnero Associates & Paulett Taggart Architects

Citation Award
Trinity School Extension
Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects

Citation Award
U.S. Embassy - Beijing
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Integrated Project Delivery

Honor Award
California Pacific Medical Center - Cathedral Hill Hospital (image below)
SmithGroup

Interior Architecture

Merit Award
Unit No. 5
Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects Inc.

Citation Award
Hiroshi Sugimoto at the de Young
Mark Cavagnero Associates

Citation Award
Pixar
Gensler

Citation Award
The Pearson Theatre at Meyer Sound
Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects

Special Achievement

Howard Ashcraft
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
San Francisco Public Library Commission
Slow Food Nation Architects and Designers
Steve Sharafian, Esq.

Unbuilt Design

Honor Award
NEST House
Naylor & Chu Architects

Citation Award
Plug-in Pavilion
Davids Killory in collaboration with Taylor Medlin

Urban Design

Honor Award
Parkmerced Vision Plan (image below)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Honor Award
The Foshan Donghuali Master Plan (image below)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Young Architects + Associates

Alex Salazar, AIA
Anne Gluch, Associate AIA