Award Categories

The Honor Award--AIA San Diego's highest award--celebrates extraordinary, thoroughly resolved architectural design, worthy of the profession's highest regard.

The Merit Award recognizes exemplary, innovative and well-resolved design, worthy of professional recognition.

The Citation Award recognizes distinctive aspects or elements of a design, which demonstrates noteworthy architectural skill or vision.

The Divine Detail Award is given to specific, ingenious and graceful design details that are worthy of recognition all by themselves.

The SDG&E Energy Efficiency Integration Award--In association with SDG&E's "Savings by Design" Program, this award recognizes non-residential projects that successfully integrate energy efficiency strategies into innovative designs through the use of creativity, technology, and environmental sensitivity.

The COTE-SD Award recognizes the beauty of sustainable architecture that integrates buildings with the physical and cultural environment.

Honor Awards

 

Casa Familia

Architect: Kevin deFreitas Architects, AIA

Category: Residential

Project Team: Kevin deFreitas, Kara deFreitas, Manish Desai

Owner: Kevin & Kara deFreitas

General Contractor: Owner Builder

Consultants: Leslie Ryan (Landscape Architect), Alex Barajas (Envision Engineering), John Stohminger (O’Day Consultants), Lightworks (lighting design), Todd Walling (Onteriors Inc), Dan Merrill (energy & A/V).

Photographer: David Harrison, Glen Cormier & Brad Girard

 

 

 

James and Rosemary Nix Nature Center

Architect: Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects

Category: Institutional

Project Team: Spurlock Poirier (Landscape Architect), GSSI (Structural Engineer), Hunter Pacific Group (Cost Estimator), E/C Engineering (Mechanical Engineer), EPI (Electrical Engineer), Flores Lund (Civil Engineer).

Owner: County of Orange

General Contractor: Metro Builders

Photographer: Satoshi Asakawa, Zoom Inc.

 

 

NOAA La Jolla Laboratory Consolidation

Architect: Architects | Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker

Category: Un-built

Project Team: Architects Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker in association with Gould Evans Associates, HDR Inc, Gibbons Drake Scott MEP

Owner: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

Consultants: Wimmer Yamada Caughey Landscape Architects

 

 

 

The Q

Architect: Jonathan Segal, FAIA

Category: Un-built

Project Team: Jonathan Segal FAIA, Guillermo Tomaszewski, Greg Yeatter, Tracy Anderson

Owner: Jman @ the Q

General Contractor: Jman @ the Q

Photographer: Paul Body

 

 

Merit Awards

 

West Laurel Studios

Architect: Brett Farrow Architect, Inc.

Category: Commercial

Project Team: Mandy Morris, Heidi Newton Graphic Agency

Owner: West Laurel Studios LP, (Brett Farrow GP)

General Contractor: Brett Farrow Architect

Consultants: Envision Engineering

Photographer: Hewitt/Garrison Architect Photography

 

 

 

Francis Parker School

Architect: Lake | Flato Architects- Greg Papay

Category: Institutional

Owner: Francis Parker School- Contact: Grant Lichtman

General Contractor: Rudolf & Setten- Contact: Andy Rogers

Consultants: KPFF (Structural Engineer), Ila Zammit Engineering (Electrical Engineer), SC Engineering (Mechanical Engineer), Schirmer Engineering Corporation (Code Consultants), Ivy Landscape Architects, RBF Consulting (Civil Engineer).

Photographer: Paul Hester and Hewitt/Garrison Photography

 

 

 

15th & Commercial

Architect: Austin Veum Robbins Partners

Category: Un-built

Project Team: David Martinez de Castro, Kristin Shultz, Ben Anderson, Jian Hu, John Muller, David Stellar, Tom Vorkoper, Randy Robbins, Douglas Austin

Owner: Father Joe’s Villages

General Contractor: Legacy Building Services, Inc.

Consultants: BTA Engineers, Inc., Mechanical and Plumbing; C & G Engineering, Inc., Electrical; URS Corporation, Soils Engineer; Burkett & Wong, Structural Engineer; Neri Landscape Architecture (NLA), Landscape Architecture; Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc., Acoustical.

 

 

Citations

 

Neptune

Architect: Steven Lombardi, Architect

Category: Residential

Owner: Justin Gooding

General Contractor: Tekton

Consultants: John Nicita, Engineer

Photographer: David Harrison and Steven Lombardi

 

 

 

UCSD Original Student Center Phase II

Architect: Public Architecture + Planning

Category: Institutional

Project Team: Principals: James Brown and James Gates; Project Managers: Jonathon Stevens, Doug Gargaro, Steve Rosenstein; Project Team: Jeff Burns and Adam Bowhay

Owner: UC Regents contact: M. Boone Hellman

General Contractor: Marcotte & Hearne

Consultants: Spurlock Poirier (Landscape Architect), Snipes Dye (Civil Engineer), Envision Engineering (Structural Engineer), McParlane & Associates (Mechanical Engineer), Michael Wall Engineers (Electrical Engineer), Campbell-Anderson & Associates (Cost Consultant).

Photographer: David Hewitt/Anne Garrison Architectural Photography

 

 

 

Candy Factory and Schiefer & Sons

Architect: Studio E Architects

Category: Historic Preservation

Project Team: Studio E Architects and Heritage Architecture & Planning

Owner: JMI Realty

General Contractor: TSA Contracting Inc.

Consultants: KPFF Consulting Engineering (Structural Engineer), McParlane & Associates (Mechanical Engineer and Plumbing Contractor), Michael Wall Engineering (Electrical Engineer), Nasland Engineering (Civil Engineer), Eilar Associates (Acoustical), Spurlock Poirier (Landscaping), O’Brien-Largen, Inc. (Waterproofing).

Photographer: Jim Brady, Roger Showley, Alex Eberle

 

 

 

Lofts at 655 6th Avenue

Architect: Public Architecture + Planning

Category: Mixed-Use

Project Team: Principals: James Brown and James Gates; Project Managers: Jonathon Stevens and Steve Hoard; Project Team: Steve Rosenstein, Ruediger Thierhoff, Jeff Burns, Adam Bowhay, Robyn Adriance.

Owner: Oliver McMillan

General Contractor: Highland Partnership, Inc.

Consultants: Schmidt Design (Landscape Architect), Jules Wilson I.D. (Interior Designer), Flores Lund (Structural Engineer), Xnth (MEP), Snipes Dye (Civil Engineer).

Photographer: Jim Brady- Brady Architectural Photography

 

 

Divine Detail Award

 

Bench at the La Jolla Playhouse Potiker Theatre

Architect: MW Steele Group and Basile Studio

Category: Divine Detail

Project Team: Mark Steele and Paul Basile

Owner: La Jolla Playhouse

Photographer: MW Steele Group, Basile Studio

 

 

SDG&E Energy Efficiency Integration Award

 

DMV San Ysidro Field Office

Architect: Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects

Category: Institutional

Project Team: Principal: Kotaro Nakamura, AIA; Project Manager: Joe Mansfield, Architect; Team Members: Anney Rosenthal, Lane Smith.

Owner: State of California, Department of Motor Vehicles

General Contractor: Cox Construction Company

Consultants: Flores Lund Consultants (Civil Engineer), SDSE Engineers (Structural Engineer), Bender Dean Engineering (Mechanical Engineer), BSE Engineering (Electrical Engineer), Spurlock Poirier (Landscape Architect).

Photographer: Satoshi Asakawa & Kevin Walsh, Zoom Inc.

 

 

C.O.T.E.- San Diego Award

 

The New Children’s Museum

Architect: Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA

Category: Institutional

Project Team: Rob Quigley, Bob Dickens, Katy Hamilton

Owner: The New Children’s Museum

General Contractor: Erickson-Hall

Consultants: Nasland Engineering (Civil Engineer), Glotman-Simpson Engineers (Structural Engineer), Paul F. Linden (Fluid Dynamics Analysis), LSW Engineers (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing), Spurlock Poirier (Landscape Architect).

Photographer: Brighton Noying

 

 

 

Casa Familia

Architect: Kevin deFreitas Architects, AIA

Category: Residential

Project Team: Kevin deFreitas, Kara deFreitas, Manish Desai

Owner: Kevin & Kara deFreitas

General Contractor: Owner Builder

Consultants: Leslie Ryan (Landscape Architect), Alex Barajas (Envision Engineering), John Stohminger (O’Day Consultants), Lightworks (lighting design), Todd Walling (Onteriors Inc), Dan Merrill (energy & A/V).

Photographer: David Harrison, Glen Cormier & Brad Girard

 

 

 

Francis Parker School

Architect: Lake | Flato Architects- Greg Papay

Category: Institutional

Owner: Francis Parker School- Contact: Grant Lichtman

General Contractor: Rudolf & Setten- Contact: Andy Rogers

Consultants: KPFF (Structural Engineer), Ila Zammit Engineering (Electrical Engineer), SC Engineering (Mechanical Engineer), Schirmer Engineering Corporation (Code Consultants), Ivy Landscape Architects, RBF Consulting (Civil Engineer).

Photographer: Paul Hester and Hewitt/Garrison Photography

 

 

Young Architect of the Year Award (YAYA)

Matthew S. Ellis - Firm: Blue Motif Architecture