2019 Edition

Design Awards 2019

Ten honors from a record 63 submissions, judged by Julie Eizenberg, Ed Ogosta, and Robin Donaldson. Winners announced April 27, 2019.

The 2019 Biennial Design Awards drew a record 63 submissions, judged by Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, RAIA (Koning Eizenberg Architecture), Ed Ogosta, AIA, and Robin Donaldson, AIA. Ten honors were conferred across the Honor, Merit, and Citation categories, alongside the Community Design Advocate Award. Winners were announced at the awards celebration on April 27, 2019.

Jurors’ Comments

CSULB College for Professional and International Education

This is a confident design. The project is properly oriented, the diagram is very clear, and there is a nice use of space that encourages social interaction at all levels. We like how the screen creates a filtered buffer from surrounding buildings.

Honor View images, plans and narratives (PDF)

Courtyard House

The design of this house achieves a look of effortlessness. The proportions feel right and it is appropriate to the challenging corner condition of the site. It isn’t trying to do more than necessary and it is staying true to its roots in California modern informality. We value the sense of ease that this house has.

Honor View images, plans and narratives (PDF)

Walk-Street House

This design has a light touch throughout. The materiality is carried through consistently, and the house stitches nicely into the neighborhood. The parking strategy is quite ingenious – very unique and effective for the size of the lot. This is a supremely well detailed house.

Honor View images, plans and narratives (PDF)

Y-House

A brilliantly simple reinvention of a post-war suburban typology. The restraint is appropriate and commendable. This is a model prototype on how to creatively re-invigorate a house instead of tearing it down and replacing it with overscaled, generic architecture. Extremely well done.

Honor View images, plans and narratives (PDF)

The Roost

We see these urban infill projects across the country and this is a great example of this typology done especially well. There is a smart understanding of the existing surrounding buildings and the intervention is appropriately scaled. It works very well with the neighborhood.

Merit View images, plans and narratives (PDF)

District La Brea

A very clever refreshing of an existing streetscape that effectively integrates mural artwork. The infill is deftly woven into the existing. Streetscape is hard and this example feels authentic. The development is well-integrated into the neighborhood.

Merit View images, plans and narratives (PDF)

Art Barn

This project has a nice sense of clarity. There is a very seamless connection between inside and out. The design has a simple diagram and lacks pretension, creating a nice informal outdoor room in keeping with the lifestyle of a beach community. It cleverly screens the neighbors. The Architects didn’t over-complicate this.

Merit View images, plans and narratives (PDF)

The West Hollywood AVSRS Parking Structure

Automated parking structures are an important building type and we want to encourage their development. The architecture responded well to an ambitious City program to address the need for parking on an infill site.

Citation View images, plans and narratives (PDF)

Equinox

This design successfully creates a sense of identity within a larger complex. The project’s entrance appears as a foreign entity grafted onto an otherwise generic and non-descript office building. It’s nice the way the exterior strategy wraps to the interior. It is very clever and compelling in that it looks to be its own building.

Citation for Building Detail View images, plans and narratives (PDF)