URBAN GUILD AWARDS 2024

The 2024 Awards were celebrated during the Urban Guild Summit on November 8, 2024 at the Village of Providence, Huntsville, Alabama.

GUILD AWARDS PROGRAM
The Guild has a distinct mission, and the awards program is intended to acknowledge design work that best exemplifies this mission and increase public awareness that this type of design work is eminently achievable.

The 2024 Awards Jury:
Sara Bega, Bega Design Studio
Rock Bell, East Beach Development
Rob Steuteville, Congress for New Urbanism
Andrew Von Maur, Independent Design Consultant

The 2024 Awards task force members:
Jeremy Sommer, Sommer Design Studios (Chair)
Lauren Kelly, Moser Design Group (Awards Program Coordinator)
Leslie Pickel, The Urban Guild

VIEW THE URBAN GUILD AWARDS 2024 BOOKLET

2024 URBAN GUILD AWARD WINNERS

Category: Design Excellence

We are pleased to announce the 2024 Design Excellence Awards. This award celebrates built design work that masterfully applies timeless design principles in a manner that refines them and best integrates them into their urban context. Submitted projects may be any type, scale, or program so long as they are successful in directly furthering the mission of the Guild to improve the design of communities. Submitted design work for this category must have been built within the past five years.

Thoughts from the Jury: The range and scope of the projects, the quality and thoughtfulness of the architecture and the interplay with the various urban conditions shows that the traditional patterns of creating human habitat are alive and well. These projects are exquisite and well executed and offer many lessons to be learned, from the composition of a four side building to the redefining of the urban street.

Urban Design
Eastdale Village | Union Studio and Giovanni Palladino, Kirchhoff Companies
Merit: Clematis Street Redesign | Victor Dover, Dover, Kohl & Partners

Civic
Wellen Park Town Hall | Khoury Vogt Architects
Merit: Babcock Cupola Reconstruction | Elizabeth McNicholas, McNicholas Architects
Merit: Southside Community Land Trust Headquarters | Union Studio

Mixed Use
Marion Square and Hotel Bennett | Fairfax & Sammons Architecture
Merit: Chevy Chase Lake | Josh Arcurio, David M. Schwarz Architects
Merit: The Pendergraft Building | Nequette Architecture & Design

Missing Middle
Sea Captains Row | Union Studio
Merit: Washington Duplex Project | Jeremiah Smith, Allison Ramsey Architects

Residential Single Family
Kaiya Mews | Khoury Vogt Architects

Category: Design Exploration

We are pleased to announce the 2024 Design Exploration Awards. This award celebrates built or unbuilt work that demonstrates visionary innovation within an urban context. Exploration is understood as a conscious attempt to identify new and innovative design strategies for improving the urban built environment and has been designed within the past five years.

Thoughts from the Jury: These projects represent thoughtful responses to very relevant problems of our time, housing affordability, variety of type, and scale. From re-imagining an old system for modern living and constructability, to designing a plan that can twist and expand based upon the needs of the site and program, and innovative planning that pushes the boundaries of zoning and building codes, are many lessons we can all apply to our work.

Design Exploration

Edmond Mixed Use
Union Studio Architecture & Community Design
AMC Architecture & Design

Merit: C.I.E.R.S. Log ADU
DPZ CoDESIGN, LLC

Merit: Vertical Evolution Cottage
Moser Design Group

Category: Student Work

We are pleased to announce the 2024 Urban Guild Awards in Student Work by Cynthia Wahito Ndegwa, University of Notre Dame, and Teagan Polizzi and Gray Burke, University of Miami.

Thoughts from the Jury: The Student work this year was excellent.

The Old Town Lamu project was a cut above. The siting of the building, the restraint shown in its design and composition, the urban spaces created, the roof terraces helping to keep an appropriate scale to the building, and a beautiful piece as a gateway into the city.

The La Biblioteca Rossa drawings were exquisite and reminded everyone of the late great Aldo Rossi drawings.