2017 American Architecture Award Winners Announced

Written by Sabrina Santos
Published on April 18, 2017

79 shortlisted buildings have been selected as winners of the 2017 American Architecture Awards, which honor the best new buildings designed and constructed by American architects in the United States and abroad, and by international architects for buildings designed and built in the United States.

The Awards, hosted by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, were juried by a group of Greek architects, who chose from 300 buildings and urban planning projects.

The winners of the 2017 American Architecture Awards are:

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Airports and Transportation Centers

ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SOUTH TERMINAL COMPLEX; Orlando, Florida / Fentress Architects

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON STATION; Seattle, Washington / LMN Architects

Bridges and Infrastructure

HARAHAN BRIDGE - BIG RIVER CROSSING; Memphis, Tennessee / Philips Lighting

TU LIEN BRIDGE; Ha Noi, Vietnam / WATG

Corporate Office Buildings

SWIFT AGENCY; Portland, Oregon / Beebe Skidmore Architects

REDWOOD HIGHWAY; Mill Valley, California / Studio VARA

HANNA ANDERSSON HEADQUARTERS; Portland, Oregon / ZGF Architects, LLP.

WASHINGTON FRUIT & PRODUCE CO. HEADQUARTERS; Yakima, Washington / Graham Baba Architects

FAST HORSE; Duluth, Minnesota / Salmela Architect

TREC - Training Recreation Education Center; Newark, New Jersey / kon.5 architects

PACIFIC CENTER CAMPUS AMENITIES BUILDING; San Diego, California / BNIM

38 NEWBURY STREET; Boston, Massachusetts / Touloukian Touloukian Inc.

CORPORATE CAMPUS CAFE AND TRAINING CENTER; West Des Moines, Iowa / substance

Government/ Civic Buildings

BENJAMIN P. GROGAN AND JERRY L. DOVE FEDERAL BUILDING; Miramar, Florida / Krueck + Sexton Architects

Hospitals/ Medical Centers

HARVEY CLINIC; Rogers, Arkansas / Marlon Blackwell Architects

Mixed-Use Buildings

FRAMEWORK; Portland, Oregon / Works Progress Architecture

Museums and Cultural Buildings

GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM (GCAM); North Adams, Massachusetts / Gluckman Tang Architects

PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM; Los Angeles, California / Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART; New York, New York / Renzo Piano Building Architects and Cooper Robertson

MINNESOTA STREET PROJECT; San Francisco, California / Jensen Architects

KMAC MUSEUM RENOVATION; Louisville, Kentucky / Christo : Finio Architecture

THE STOREFRONT THEATER; Lyons, Nebraska / Matthew Mazzotta

SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART RENOVATION THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS; Lawrence, Kansas / Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects

Parks and Gardens

LIBERTY PARK; New York, New York / AECOM

Private Homes

510 HOUSE; Fox Point, Wisconsin / Johnsen Schmaling Architets

GUEST HOUSE; Wainscott, New York / Roger Ferris + Partners

GEMMA OBSERVATORY; Southern New Hampshire / Anmahian Winton Architects

SAWMILL; Tehachapi, California / Olson Kundig

ONTARIO RESIDENCE; Washington, DC. / David Jameson Architect

LAKE HOUSE; Stockbridge, Massachusetts / David Jameson Architect

CUERNAVACA RESIDENCE; Austin, Texas / alterstudio architecture LLP.

LITTLE HOUSE; Seabeck, Washington / mwworks

MIRRORHOUSE; Beverly Hills, California / XTEN Architecture

SQUARE HOUSE; Mill Valley, California / Levenbetts

ALAMO SQUARE RESIDENCE; San Francisco, California / Jensen Architects

OVERLOOK GUEST HOUSE; Los Gatos, California / Schwartz and Architecture

SEA SONG; Big Sur, California / Form4 Architecture

ARTIST RETREAT; Upstate New York / GLUCK+

GRACE STREET RESIDENCE; San Francisco, California / VeeV Design

HIDE OUT; Los Angeles, California / Dan Brunn Architecture

PACIFIC HEIGHTS RESIDENCE; San Francisco, California / Jensen Architects

3 LP RESIDENCE; Iowa City, Iowa / substance

Religious Buildings

WILLOW CREEK NORTH SHORE; Glenview, Illinois / Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

CHAPEL FOR OUR LADY OF FATIMA; Cayey, Puerto Rico / Toro Arquitectos

SOKA GAKKAI INTERNATIONAL- NEW ENGLAND; Brookline, Massachusetts / Touloukian Touloukian Inc.

Restoration/ Renovation

MIT KRESGE AUDITORIUM AND CHAPEL RENOVATIONS; Cambridge, Massachusetts / EYP

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE GROUP NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS RENOVATION; Des Moines, Iowa / BNIM

Retail/ Hospitality

IN SITU; San Francisco, California / Aidlin Darling Design

Retail/ Showrooms

AESOP THE SHAY; Washington, DC. / Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design

MARTIN’S LANE WINERY; Seattle, Washington / Olson Kundig

CHARLES SMITH WINES JET CITY; Seattle, Washington / Olson Kundig

BLU DOT SHOWROOM; West Hollywood, California / Standard Architecture

RAJEUNIR BLACK CAVIAR; Palm Desert, California / Studio Jantzen

Schools and Universities

MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN DESIGN AND MEDIA CENTER; Boston, Massachusetts / Ennead Architects

BRIDGE FOR LABORATORY SCIENCES VASSAR COLLEGE INTEGRATED SCIENCE COMMONS; Poughkeepsie, New York / Ennead Architects

TAUBMAN COMPLEX; South eld, Michigan / Morphosis Architects

DEBRUCE CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS; Iowa City, Iowa / Gould Evans

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EMBODIED COMPUTATION LAB; Princeton, New Jersey / The Living

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA VISUAL ARTS BUILDING; Iowa City, Iowa / Steven Holl Architects

COLLEGE OF MARIN ACADEMIC CENTER; Kentield, California / TLCD Architecture + Mark Cavagnero Associates

COMMON GROUND HIGH SCHOOL; New Haven, Connecticut / Gray Organschi Architecture

PRESTON OUTDOOR EDUCATION STATION; Elmdale, Kansas / KSU Design+Make Studio

DAVIS-HARRINGTON WELCOME CENTER; Springfield, Missouri / Dake Wells Architecture

WAKE TECH REGIONAL PLANT TEACHING FACILITY; Raleigh, North Carolina / Clark Nexsen

Skyscrapers/ High Rises

SHINSEGAE INTERNATIONAL; Seoul, South Korea / Olson Kundig

GATEWAY PLAZA; Richmond, Virginia / Forum Studio

15 RENWICK; New York, New York / ODA New York

CONFIDENTIAL OFFICE COMPLEX; Chicago, Illinois / Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

MINOR AND STEWART; Seattle, Washington / WATG

Sports and Recreation

GOLDEN 1 CENTER; Sacramento, California / AECOM

RIVERSPORT RAPIDS; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Elliott + Associates Architects

MICHIGAN LAKE HOUSE; Leelanau County, Michigan / Desai Chia Architecture

THE LINEAR CABIN; St Germain, Wisconsin / Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Urban Planning/ Landscape Architecture

COLORADO ESPLANADE; Santa Monica, California / PWP Landscape Architecture

ST PATRICK’S ISLAND; Calgary, Alberta, Canada / W Architecture and Landscape

BURJ 2020; Dubai, United Arab Emirates / RNL Design

THE NEW ST. PETE PIER; St. Petersburg, Florida / Rogers Partners

CHICAGO RIVERWALK; Chicago, Illinois / Ross Barney Architects (Lead Architect, All Phases) Collins Engineers (Phase 1 Prime Consultant) Sasaki (Phase 2 and 3 Prime Consultant)