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Wednesday, January 18 2023

2022 Awards Recap

Bonstra | Haresign ARCHITECTS is proud to share that six of our completed projects were recognized with 15 national, regional and local design and industry awards in 2022. Congratulations to our clients, consultant partners, general contractors, and our team at Bonstra | Haresign ARCHITECTS for achieving these recognitions! 


PARK + FORD

Clients: LOWE Enterprises, USAA General Contractor: Whiting-Turner

AIA | DC Washingtonian Residential Design Awards
Awards in Distinctive Residential Design

AIA Northern Virginia Chapter Design Awards
Commercial Architecture: Award of Merit

Builder’s Choice Design Awards
Grand Award

Lambda Alpha International GW Chapter Awards
Outstanding Project Over 400,000 SF

Multifamily Executive Awards
Adaptive Reuse: Grand Winner

Guardian Glass Commercial Project Awards
People’s Choice Winner

ENR MidAtlantic Regional Best Projects Awards
Award of Merit

Best of NAIOP Northern Virginia Awards
Awards of Excellence: Adaptive Use

Park + Ford – two out-of-date 14-story office buildings originally constructed in the 1980s – are adapted and converted to market-rate residences. The high-rises are transformed with new exterior windows, transformation of a connector building, and updated building systems with 435 residential units, parking and amenities.


MIDTOWN ROW

Clients: Broad Street Ventures, Bridger Corp, Lamont Street Partners General Contractor: Hourigan Group

AIA Northern Virginia Chapter Design Awards
Commercial Architecture: Juror’s Citation for Responsible Design

Multifamily Executive Awards
Student Housing: Merit Award

HRACRE Design Awards
Award of Excellence

Built on a reimagined strip shopping center and inspired by historic context, bright colors give each building its own identity while breaking up the façade and providing scale and rhythm to passersby. The four mixed-use, five-story buildings, with 240 units for student housing, generate connections via wide pedestrian walkways drawing people into exterior and interior amenity spaces.


CLEAR VIEW IN FOGGY BOTTOM

Client: Withheld General Contractor: ThinkMakeBuild

AIA | DC Washingtonian Residential Design Awards
Awards in Distinctive Residential Design

The Rowhouse on I Street is one of many residences that has grown with the evolving urban fabric of Washington, DC. The design renovation increases the footprint of the home, maximizes natural light and interior open space with aesthetics in contemporary architecture.


THE ALDEA

Client: 11th Property Group General Contractor: Harbor Builders

NAIOP DC | MD Awards for Excellence
Best Multifamily Projects

The Aldea is a mixed-use residential project located on H Street, NE, one of Washington, DC’s most historically vibrant and rapidly changing neighborhoods, and the only one served by a streetcar today. In 1968, this area was one of the 3 hardest-hit corridors, suffering catastrophic damage during the riots in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


CARVER HALL

Clients: Urban Investment Partners (UIP), Howard University General Contractor: UIP GC

AIA | DC Washingtonian Residential Design Awards
Awards in Distinctive Residential Design

Through significant renovation and adaptive use, historic Carver Hall is repurposed from World War II dormitory housing for government workers to 63 modern apartments at below market rent. Designed by noted architect Hilyard Robinson and located in a walkable, transit-rich neighborhood, the project preserves the streetscape and building exterior, retaining a significant historic icon in the community.


SLOWE HALL

Clients: Urban Investment Partners (UIP), Howard University General Contractor: UIP GC

AIA | DC Chapter Design Awards
Awards in Historic Resources/Prevention

Built in 1942 to house War Department workers, Slowe Hall then served as a Howard University dorm for more than six decades. The building was named in honor of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a woman of many “firsts.” She was Howard’s first female Dean, the first African American to win a national title in any sport (tennis), an organizer and first principal of DC’s first Black middle school and one of the 16 founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha, among her many other accomplishments.