The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 2013 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, the profession’s highest recognition of excellence in architecture, interior architecture, and urban design. Twenty-eight worldwide projects were selected from more than 700 submissions.

2013 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture (click on each linked project for more information)

• Art Stable in Seattle by Olson Kundig Architects
• The Barnes Foudnation in Philadelphia by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
• Boat Pavilion for Long Dock Park in Beacon, New York by Architecture Research Office (ARO)
• Centra Metropark in Iselin, New Jersey by Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF)
• Clemson University, Lee Hall College of Architecture in Clemson, South Carolina by Thomas Phifer and Partners
• Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility in Goshen, Kentucky by De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop
• Milstein Hall, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by OMA
• Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges in New Haven, Connecticut by KieranTimberlake
• The New York Public Library—Exterior Renovation in New York by Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
• Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church in Springdale, Arkansas by Marlon Blackwell Architect
• Vancover Convention Centre West in Vancouver, Canada by LMN Architects + MCM/DA

2013 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture (click on each linked project for more information)

• Blessed Sacrament Chapel and Abbey Church Pavilion—Modifications to Marcel Breuer’s 1961 St. John’s Abbey Church Project in Collegeville, Minnesota by VJAA
• BNIM Iowa in Des Moines by BNIM
• Charles Smith Wines Tasting Room and World Headquarters in Walla Walla, Washington by Olson Kundig Architects
• Chicago Apartment in Chicago by VJAA
• Doc Magic in Torrance, California by RA-DA
• Lamar Advertising Corporate Headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
• McAllen Main Library in McAllen, Texas by Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle (MS&R)
• PACCAR Hall, Foster School of Business, University of Washington in Seattle by LMN Architects (click here for Contract’s coverage of this project)
• Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity in Kansas City, Missouri by BNIM

2013 Institute Honor Awards for Regional & Urban Design (click on each linked project for more information)

• Burnham Place at Union Station Master Plan in Washington, D.C. by Shalom Baranes Associates, PC HOK
• Coal Harbour Convention District in Vancouver, Canada by LMN Architects + MCM/DA
• The Great Lakes Century—A 100-Year Vision in the Great Lakes Region, United States by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
• Nanhu New Country Village Master Plan in Nanhu District, Jiaxing, China by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
• National September 11 Memorial in New York by Handel Architects
• Parkmerced Vision Plan in San Francisco by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
• Rock Street Pocket Housing (RSPH) in Little Rock, Arkansas by the University of Arkansas Community Design Center
• Superkilen in Copenhagen, Denmark by BIG– Bjarke Ingels Group

The jury for the 2013 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture includes: Mary Katherine (Mary Kay) Lanzillotta FAIA, Jury Chair, Hartman-Cox Architects; Brian Fitzsimmons, AIA, Fitzsimmons Architects; John Kane, FAIA, Architekton; William Leddy, FAIA, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects; Philip Loheed, AIA, BTA Architects, Inc.; Robert Maschke, AIA, robert maschke ARCHITECTS inc.; Douglas L. Milburn Assoc. AIA, Isaksen Glerum Wachter LLC and Becky Joyce Yannes, AIAS Representative, Drexel University. 


Winning firms will be recognized this June at the AIA 2013 National Convention and Design Exposition in Denver.

For more information, visit aia.org.