2009 AIA San Francisco Design Awards Winners

The American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter (AIA San Francisco) announces the winners of the 2009 AIA San Francisco Design Awards program.

At the gala, winners were recognized for their outstanding contributions to the built environment in the categories of Architecture and Interior Architecture, Energy + Sustainability, Integrated Practice, Young Architects and Associates, Unbuilt Design, and Urban Design in the Bay Area. Each of these award categories was divided into three subcategories-Honor, Merit, and Citation. In addition, awards for Special Achievement were also presented.

Each of the winning projects is featured in the March/April issue of California Home + Design magazine. All the winners, after the break.

Energy + Sustainability

Merit Award
Portola Valley Town Center
Siegel & Strain Architects and Goring and Straja Architects

Merit Award
Windrush School
Ratcliff

Citation Award
355 Eelventh Street
Aidlin Darling Design

Citation Award
San Francisco Friends School
Pfau Long Architecture with Page and Turnbull

Excellence in Architecture

Honor Award
Cathedral of Christ the Light
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Honor Award
Congregation Beth Sholom Synagogue
Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects

Honor Award
Final(ly) House
Rothschild Schwartz architects, inc

Merit Award
355 Eleventh Street
Aidlin Darling Design

Merit Award
California Academy of Sciences
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Stantec Architecture and Arup

Merit Award
Caretaker Cottage and Office
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Citation Award
Laidley Street Residence
Zack / de Vito Architecture

Citation Award
Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center and Railton Place Housing
Herman Coliver Locus Architecture

Citation Award
Sava Pool
Mark Cavagnero Associates & Paulett Taggart Architects

Citation Award
Trinity School Extension
Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects

Citation Award
U.S. Embassy – Beijing
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Integrated Project Delivery

Honor Award
California Pacific Medical Center – Cathedral Hill Hospital
SmithGroup

Interior Architecture

Merit Award
Unit No. 5
Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects Inc.

Citation Award
Hiroshi Sugimoto at the de Young
Mark Cavagnero Associates

Citation Award
Pixar
Gensler

Citation Award
The Pearson Theatre at Meyer Sound
Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects

Special Achievement

Howard Ashcraft
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
San Francisco Public Library Commission
Slow Food Nation Architects and Designers
Steve Sharafian, Esq.

Unbuilt Design

Honor Award
NEST House
Naylor & Chu Architects

Citation Award
Plug-in Pavilion
Davids Killory in collaboration with Taylor Medlin

Urban Design

Honor Award
Parkmerced Vision Plan
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Honor Award
The Foshan Donghuali Master Plan
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Young Architects + Associates

Alex Salazar, AIA
Anne Gluch, Associate AIA

Details on all the winning projects, here.