Harleston Parker Medal

Past Awardees

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Harleston Parker Medal

Co-sponsored by the City of Boston, this annual honor seeks to recognize “the single most beautiful building or other structure” built in the metropolitan Boston area in the past 10 years.

Eligibility

Nominations are invited for the 2011 Harleston Parker Medal, which is presented to “such architects as shall have, in the opinion of the Boston Society of Architects...completed the erection for any private citizen, association, corporation or public authority, the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument or structure within the limits of the City of Boston or of the Metropolitan Parks District” (Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Cambridge, Canton, Chelsea, Dedham, Dover, Everett, Hingham, Hull, Lynn, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Milton, Nahant, Needham, Newton, Quincy, Revere, Saugus, Somerville, Stoneham, Swampscott, Wakefield, Waltham, Watertown, Wellesley, Weston, Weymouth, Winchester, Winthrop and Woburn).

To be eligible, a project:

• May be of any scale, program or level of public visibility;
• May be a rehabilitated building or structure;
• Must have been completed between December 31, 2000, and December 31, 2010.

You may nominate your own or any other that work you believe merits consideration. Projects that have been honored in past years and work by jurors or by their firms are ineligible.

Criteria

The sole judging criterion is design excellence. The jury is empowered to determine the extent to which design excellence is informed by aesthetic, functional, contextual, sustainability, social or other characteristics.

Submission

Please send your nomination to psmith@architects.org or to
Harleston Parker Medal, The Architects Building, 52 Broad Street, Boston, MA 02109.

All submissions are due by 4:00 pm on February 23, 2012.

Harleston Parker jury

2011 jury
Nick Winton AIA, Anmahian Winton, jury chair
Kathy Acerbo-Bachmann, Trinity Church at Copley Square
Christina Crawford AIA, LEED AP, architect and urban designer
Willie Jones, The Community Builders
Clifford Gayley AIA, LEED AP, William Rawn Associates, Architects
Shauna Gilles-Smith ASLA, LEED AP, Ground
Prataap Patrose Assoc. AIA, Boston Redevelopment Association
Mark Walsh-Cooke, Arup
Jane Weinzapfel FAIA, Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects

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Read the 2010 Harleston Parker Medal jury report.

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Recent recipients

• 2000 Davis Art Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College (Rafael Moneo and Payette Associates)
• 2001 Boston Public Library renovation (Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott)
• 2002 Northeastern University Multi-Faith Center (Office dA)
• 2003 Honan-Allston Branch/Boston Public Library (Machado and Silvetti Associates)
• 2004 Simmons Hall, MIT (Steven Holl Architects and Perry Dean Rogers Partners)
• 2005 Building H/College of Computer and Information Sciences and Residence Hall, Northeastern University (William Rawn Associates)
• 2006 Wang Campus Center, Wellesley College (Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects)
• 2007 Institute of Contemporary Art (Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Perry Dean Rogers Partners)
• 2008 Genzyme Center (Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner; House & Robertson Architects; Next Phase Studios)
• 2009 Parker Community Boathouse (Anmahian Winton Architects)
• 2010 New Cambridge Public Library (William Rawn Associates with Ann Beha Architects)