COMMERCIAL OVER $2,000,000     return to images

Santa Fe High School Science Building

Architects – Ellis/Browning Architects/BPLW Joint Venture
Owner – Santa Fe Public Schools
Contractor – HB Construction

• Creation of internal courtyard to west, next to existing academic building, and using overhangs and the existing building for west shading, was a good site and orientation strategy, given the site.
• Good planning to bring natural light into common spaces and teaching/lab spaces, particularly lab clerestories.
• Interior finishes and materials were clean and appropriate for an institutional facility.

MERIT AWARD

The 37 House

Architects – Robert Zachry Architect
Owner/Builder – Hurlocker Properties

• Exterior entry sequence well conceived and very simple.
• Major living spaces capitalize on views offered by the site.
• Generally crisp geometry in forms.
• Siting and plan takes advantage of site features and solar orientation of site quite well.

CITATION AWARD

Quemazon House

Architects – Agnew & Mifsud Architects
Owner – Stan & Joan Primak
Contractor – Primak Builders

• Northern face of house displays arrangement of form that ties well to nature of the surrounding landscape.
• Main living space is very simple and well conceived.
• Interesting sectional space connections in main living and circulation spaces.

CITATION AWARD

RESIDENTIAL OVER $500,000     return to images

North Tano Road House

Architects – Spears Architects
Owners – Andrew & Heather Van Luchene
Contractor – Denman & Associates, Inc.

• Clean and elegant interior detailing for a residential project.
• Very simple and spatially legible floor plan.
• Interior spaces composed of simple and minimal well-executed forms and elements.

CITATION AWARD

RESIDENTIAL OVER $500,000     return to images

Architects – Archaeo Architects
Owner – Jon & Christine Lehman
Contractor – Prull & Associates, Inc.

• Clean exterior detailing and connections between disparate materials.
• Well executed connection between the interior spaces and exterior landscape in major living spaces.
• Contrast of exterior material, color and texture works well to differentiate major exterior elements (although the jury would like to know more on the choice of blue).
• Simple elegance in many of the outdoor spaces and arrangement of architectural elements that created them.

MERIT AWARD

RESIDENTIAL UNDER $500,000     return to images

Second Street House

Architects – D. Joseph Andrade Architect
Owner/Contractor – D. Joseph Andrade

• Innovative use of infill site for living, parking, guest quarters and garden/courtyard.
• Sparing but careful use of materials created a simple and modest project that has dignity in its simplicity.
• House appears to make the most of the site it occupies and the modest materials it uses for an outcome that is significant in its design quality.
• As a general observation of the jury, the nature of the design and interiors of this house suggested it might be the residence of the architect who designed it.

MERIT AWARD

URBAN DESIGN     return to images

The Veranda Compound

Architects – Calott + Gifford Architecture/Urban Design
Owner – Infill Solutions Innovative Urban Design & Development
Contractor – Chris Vigil Construction

• Well conceived and arranged site plan with simple unit plans to create a central pedestrian commons apparently uninterrupted by vehicles.
• Nice arrangement of building, site and landscape forms for a contemporary interpretation of southwest forms and landscape using simple and cost-conscious materials.
• The jury felt in this submittal further illustration of surrounding context and sites would have further strengthened the submittal.

CITATION AWARD

HISTORIC PRESERVATION     return to images

Lamy Building Improvements

Architects – Spears Architects
Owner – Property Control Division/State of New Mexico
Contractor – ESA Construction, Inc.

• Project appeared to stretch a tight budget to make substantive site, material, deferred maintenance (that resulted in limited renovation) and aesthetic improvements to reflect a more historically accurate basis of this building.
• Building appears to be more true to its original intent and site/landscape feature improvements highlight the building’s relationship to the site and presence beyond the site.