Awards and Recognition
Firm Recognition
2022 IDIQ Contract with the General Services Administration
2020 Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program
2008 Invited Juror, Young Architects Awards, Architectural League of New York
2007 Contract awards for New York City Cultural Projects, NYC DDC Design Excellence Program
2006 Michael Owen Janes Memorial Lecturers, University of Virginia
2006 Progressive Architecture Awards Juror 54th Annual Progressive Awards, Architect Magazine
2004 Contract Awards for New York City Cultural Projects, NYC DDC Design Excellence Program
Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center
Brooklyn Public Library
2022 Architecture Masterprize Award, Institutional Architecture
2022 SARA National Design Award of Merit, Society of American Registered Architects Council
2022 Category Winner, Design and Environment, LOOP Design Awards
2022 Popular Choice Winner, Libraries, Architizer A+ Awards
2022 Nominee, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
2021 Silver Medal, Regional and Urban Design, AIA Tri-State Awards
2021 Institutional Merit Award, AIA New York State Design Awards
2021 Spaces and Places category Finalist, Fast Company Innovation by Design Award
2021 Institutional / Libraries Finalist, Architizer A+ Awards
2021 Greater Good: Social + Environmental Impact, NYCxDesign Award, Interior Design Magazine
2019 American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum
2018 Award of Merit, AIA Brooklyn + Queens Design Awards
2017 Design Excellence Award, NYC Public Design Commission
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
NYC Department of Design and Construction, NY Public Library
2020 SARA NY Design Award of Merit, Society of American Registered Architects New York Council
2018 Public Space, Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards
Glen Oaks Branch Library
NYC Department of Design and Construction
2017 SARA National Design Award of Merit, Society of American Registered Architects National Council
2015 Landscape Architecture Design Merit Award, American Society of Landscape Architects
2014 American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum
2014 Design Excellence, Queens Chamber of Commerce
2014 Special Mention Award, Libraries, Architizer A+ Awards
2013 Building of the Year, American-Architects
2008 SARA NY Design Award of Honor, Society of American Registered Architects New York Council
2007 Architype’s 2007 Notable Projects: Libraries, New York City Department of Design and Construction and Queens Library
2006 NYC Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design, New York City Department of Design and Construction and Queens Library
2006 AIA Design Merit Award, New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects, New York City Department of Design and Construction and Queens Library
Colman Hall
Lawrence University
2018 SARA National Design Award of Merit, Society of American Registered Architects National Council
2018 SARA NY Design Award of Merit, Society of American Registered Architects New York Council
Chicago Public School
Chicago Public School International Design Competition
2002 Progressive Architecture Award, Architecture Magazine (Architect Magazine)
2001 AIA Design Award, New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects
2001 International Design Competition Winner, Chicago Public Schools Design Competition
Engine 160
NYC Fire Department
2008 SARA NY Design Award of Honor, Society of American Registered Architects New York Council
Open Loft
Private Client
2001 AIA Design Award, AIA New York
2000 Record Interiors, Architectural Record Magazine
2001 American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum
Tenri Cultural Institute
Tenri Cultural Institute, Michael Yuge, Reverend Okui
2001 American Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum
MoMA Entrance Lobby and Ticket Booths
The Museum of Modern Art
1999 ar+d Award for Emerging Architecture, Design Award, The Architectural Review Magazine
Louise and Janette Brooks Engineering Design Center
The Cooper Union
1999 AIA Design Citation, AIA New York
Choreographer’s Loft
Private Client
1997 AIA Design Citation, AIA New York
1997 Design 100 Essentials for a New Age, Metropolitan Home Magazine
Nara Convention Hall
Nara Convention Hall International Design Competition
1991 Finalist, International design competition, Nara, Japan, Nara Convention Hall Design Competition