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Jan 07, 2021

2020 BSA Design Award winners announced

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BSA Awards Gala 2020

Photo: Kit Castagne

Every year, the BSA Design Awards program recognizes excellent work. Though 2020 was a year of change, the quality of the work submitted to the Design Awards program remained as remarkable as ever. The BSA is pleased to announce the winners for the 2020 BSA Design Awards.

Each of these projects will be celebrated at the BSA Awards Gala on Thursday, January 21, 2021. Special thanks to this year's Gala sponsors: Gold Sponsor Huber; Silver Sponsors Copley Wolff Design Group, Crown Point Cabinetry, DiCicco Gulman & Company, EPIC Metals, Hanover Architectural Products, Lam Partners, and Robert Benson Photography; and Bronze Sponsors Acentech, Best Tile of New England, Dimeo, Glenview Doors, Microsol Resources, NorthLight IT, and Shepley Bulfinch.

The BSA Design Awards are an opportunity to take stock of the architectural accomplishments of our community, including excellent design work, collaboration across disciplines, and investment from committed clients. This year's juries reviewed a competitive pool of submissions in each category, and made difficult decisions. The projects they chose to award exemplify all the potential that architecture has to innovate design and systems, foster community, build sustainably, and move toward greater equity and inclusion on our built environment.

Please join the BSA in congratulating the teams behind these winning projects, and learn more about them at the Gala.

The 2020 BSA Design Award winners are:

Campus Planning and Urban Design winners

  • Agnes Scott College Comprehensive Master Plan – Sasaki
  • Boston Tactical Public Realm Guidelines – Utile, Inc.
  • Denver International Airport Strategic Development Plan – Sasaki
  • Jumping Fish Ecological Power Plant Park – Leers Weinzapfel Associates
  • Resilient Planning at Multiple Scales, Puerto Rico – Perkins&Will

Healthcare Facilities Design winners

  • Adelaide of Newton Center – Bechtel Frank Erickson Architects
  • Beverly Clinic – Merge Architects
  • Cholera Treatment Center – MASS Design Group
  • D.S. Chen Health and Wellness Center – ARC/ Architectural Resources Cambridge
  • New Patient Tower and Renovations – Shepley Bulfinch

Honor Awards for Design Excellence winners, juried by AIA Atlanta

  • Linde Center for Music and Learning at Tanglewood – William Rawn Associates, Architects
  • Dartmouth College House Center Pilots – Sasaki
  • King Open/Cambridge Street Upper Schools and Community Complex – William Rawn Associates, Architects with Arrowstreet
  • Global Flora Conservatory – Kennedy & Violich Architecture
  • Pennsylvania State University Recital Hall – William Rawn Associates, Architects
  • MIT.nano – HGA
  • New Science Center – Payette
  • Pedestrian Crossing (PedX) – Payette
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery Bigelow Chapel and New Crematory – William Rawn Associates, Architects
  • Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center – Payette
  • Woburn Public Library – CBT

Interior Architecture and Design winners

  • 401 Park Repositioning – Elkus Manfredi Architects
  • Beverly Clinic – Merge Architects
  • Billerica Memorial High School – Perkins&Will
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Renovation – BOS|UA
  • Kendall Square Workplace – Utile, Inc. and Merge Architects
  • MASS MoCA Building 6 – Bruner/Cott
  • More Than Words – Peter Rose + Partners
  • Ryovan – Andrew Wade Keating AIA

K-12 Education Facilities Design winners

  • Billerica Memorial High School – Perkins&Will
  • Hastings Center – Perkins&Will
  • PJM STEM+ Center – ARC/ Architectural Resources Cambridge
  • The Barn at Belmont Day School – Utile, Inc.
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance | Perles Family Studio - Flansburgh Architects

Residential Design winners, juried in partnership with AIA New York

  • Bare Hill Residence – Peter Rose + Partners
  • Boulder House – aterlierjun
  • Courtyard House – Anmahian Winton Architects
  • Mount Mauwee House - Paul Schulhof AIA
  • Net Zero Farmhouse and Barn – Catherine Truman Architects
  • Rudolph House – Ruhl Studio Architects
  • Villa Varoise – NADAAA with Bidard & Raissi

Sustainable Design winners

  • Daniels Building – NADAAA with Adamson Associates Architects
  • King Open/Cambridge Street Upper Schools and Community Complex – William Rawn Associates, Architects with Arrowstreet
  • Head Start – Maryann Thompson Architects
  • New Science Center – Payette
  • Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center – Payette

Unbuilt Architecture and Design winners

  • AquiAqui – Matter Design
  • Flyleaf Portable Reading Room – SMRT Architects and Engineers
  • Mill River Park, Whittingham Discovery Park – JCJ Architecture
  • Shanghai Hongkou Stadium – Sasaki
  • Slice – DUAL
  • Suspended Boxes – Massoud Abedimoghadam

Harleston Parker Medal finalists

  • Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion - Utile, Inc.
  • Collier Memorial - Howeler + Yoon Architecture
  • Dearborn STEM Middle-High School - Jonathan Levi Architects
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery Bigelow Chapel and New Crematory - William Rawn Associates, Architects
  • Tozzer Anthropology Building - Kennedy & Violich Architecture

In addition recognizing excellent projects, the BSA Awards Gala will celebrate a group of remarkable people for their contributions to the BSA community and the building and design professions.

2020 individual awardees

  • BSA Award of Honor recipient Jonathan Levi FAIA, Jonathan Levi Architects
  • BSA Commonwealth Award recipient David Carlson AIA, Atelier Carlson
  • BSA Earl R. Flansburgh Young Designers Award recipient Patricia Gruits, MASS Design Group
  • BSA Honorary Membership recipient Peter Cheever Hon. BSA, LeMessurier
  • BSA Honorary Membership recipient Malia Lazu Hon. BSA, The Urban Labs

Learn more about these outstanding projects and people at the BSA Awards Gala on January 21. For more details visit, architects.org/gala.

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