2020 AIA Awards

As every year, the American Institute of architects (AIA), of which Isplora.com is a partner, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2020 AIA New York Design Awards. A heterogeneous jury of architects, teachers, critics and planners met at the Center for Architecture, determining the 35 winning projects.

The winning architectural projects represent, for the American Institute of architects (AIA), the exceptional quality in the panorama of contemporary architectural practice, “regardless of budget, size, style or type”. The proposals belong to architectural firms based in New York or to projects within the Big Apple City designed by firms based abroad.

As AIA partner, the Isplora editorial team shows you here a selection of the most interesting winning projects of the 2020 AIA New York Design Awards and exclusively anticipates the calendar of the next AIANY events, with an evening of presentation dedicated to Isplora for the next 19 March 2020, in addition to the exhibition of all the winning works at the 2020 AIANY Design Awards Exhibition at the Center for Architecture for the following 16 April 2020.

Five story house, stpmj Architecture - photo by Bae Jihun

The 35 projects are divided into five assessment categories, each taking into account specific criteria: architecture, interior, projects, urban design and sustainability. Each work has been chosen for the formal quality of the design, the integration with the context, the functional program, the innovation and the articulation of the technical aspects.

The jury was: Kunlé Adeyemi, Founder | Principal, NLÉ; Dina Griffin, FAIA, NOMA, IIDA, President, Interactive Design Architects; Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, Founding Principal, Reed-Hilderbrand; Lisa Iwamoto, Founder, IwamotoScott Architecture; Mary Ann Lazarus, FAIA, LEED Fellow, Architect and Consultant, Cameron MacAllister Group; Bryan C. Lee Jr., Director of Design, Colloqate; Carme Pinós, Founder, Estudio Carme Pinós.

The winners 

Glenstone Museum, Thomas Phifer and Partners, PWP Landscape Architecture, RAFT - photo by Iwan Baan

First of all the Best in Competition for Glenstone Museum of Thomas Phifer and Partners – together with the landscape architects PWP landscape Architecture and RAFT – with the project for the extension of the Glenstone Foundation, in Maryland, whose focus is given by the design of a water courtyard among the rooms of the museum.

Glenstone Museum, Thomas Phifer and Partners, PWP Landscape Architecture, RAFT - photo by Iwan Baan

Each room is monographically dedicated to the works of an artist and explores the theme of natural light diffused from above, while another room hosts the permanent collection of the museum. The awareness in the use of materials integrates - in a monumental way - the built space with the landscape, combining the mute and stoned element with the transparency and reflections of water.

Glenstone Museum, Thomas Phifer and Partners, PWP Landscape Architecture, RAFT - photo by Iwan Baan

Between Honor, Merit and Citation of the architecture section, the selection of the winning works marks the Calgary Central Library of Snøhetta and DIALOG, The Reach of Steven Holl Architects and the Five-Story House of stpmj Architecture, exploring the heterogeneous and  different scales of the architecture project, from the size of the living to the definition of cultural spaces.

The Reach, Steven Holl Architects - photo by Richard Barnes