Palladio Awards 2018
2018 Palladio Award Winners
Washington, DC - March 14, 2018 - The publisher of TRADITIONAL BUILDING and PERIOD HOMES magazines and the producer of the Traditional Building Conference Series have just notified the winners of the 17th annual Palladio Design Awards. The Palladio Design competition entries were juried by a distinguished panel of judges on March 6 at the historic George Town Club in Washington, DC. There were a record number of entries this year.
There are five winners in the commercial/institutional building categories and nine winners in the residential categories, including a three-way tie in the category for new residential design/construction under 5,000 square feet. “This year’s Palladio winners demonstrate a virtuoso of traditional design where great architecture transcends style,” said Nancy Berry, Editor of PERIOD HOMES. Martha McDonald, Editor of TRADITIONAL BUILDING added, “This might be the most competitive contest we’ve seen in the seventeen years we have produced the Palladio Awards Program.”
The Palladio Award winners will be published in the June issue of TRADITIONAL BUILDING and the July issue of PERIOD HOMES. Winners and their projects will be celebrated further at an awards ceremony and dinner on July 18 during the Traditional Building Conference at the Nassau Inn in Princeton N.J.
The Palladio Design Awards are the only national awards that recognize excellence in traditional architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and traditional craftsmanship.
The winners are as follows:
COMMERCIAL/INSTITUTIONAL
Restoration and Renovation – Many Glacier Hotel Rehabilitation, Glacier National Park – Anderson Hallas Architects
New Design and Construction, more than 30,000 SF – Benjamin Franklin College and Pauli Murray College, Yale University – Robert A.M. Stern Architects
New Design and Construction, less than 30,000 SF – Thorndale Farm New Corporate Offices, Millbrook, NY – Voith & Mactavish Architects & G.P. Schafer Architect
Adaptive Reuse/Sympathetic Addition – Child’s Building and Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY – Gerner Kronick & Valcarcel Architects
Public Spaces – Longwood Gardens, Main Fountain Garden Restoration, Kennett Square, PA – Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners
The Commercial/Institutional jurors were (1) Calvert S. Bowie, Principal, Bowie-Gridley Architects, Washington, DC; (2) Brian Goeken, Chief, Technical Preservation Services, National Park Service; (3) James W. Shepherd, Director of Preservation and Facilities, Washington National Cathedral; and (4) Craig Williams, Principal, David M. Schwarz Architects, Washington, DC.
RESIDENTIAL
(View winners on Period Homes.)
Residential Multi-Unit – New Townhouses, Brooklyn, New York – Fairfax & Sammons Architects
New Design & Construction (More than 5000 square feet) – Mead Pont Shingle Style Residence – VanderHorn Architects
Adaptive Reuse and/or Sympathetic Addition – Holmby Hills Residence, Holmby Hills, California – Michael Burch Architects
Restoration & Renovation – Cunningham, Atlanta, Georgia – TS Adams Studio
Exterior Spaces: Gardens & Landscapes (Tie)
Farmhouse Gardens, Washington Connecticut – Haver & Skolnick Architects
Main Line Estate, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania – Doyle Herman Design Associates
New Design & Construction (Less than 5,000 square feet) (3-way Tie)
Kinsley, Oxford Maryland – John Milner Architects
New House, Jackson, Wyoming – Peter Zimmerman Architects
Villa on the Gulf, Alys Beach, Florida – Jeffrey Dungan Architects
Peter H. Miller, Hon. AIA, is the publisher and President of TRADITIONAL BUILDING, PERIOD HOMES and the Traditional Building Conference Series, and podcast host for Building Tradition, Active Interest Media's business to business media platform. AIM also publishes OLD HOUSE JOURNAL; NEW OLD HOUSE; FINE HOMEBUILDING; ARTS and CRAFTS HOMES; TIMBER HOME LIVING; ARTISAN HOMES; FINE GARDENING and HORTICULTURE. The Home Group integrated media portfolio serves over 50 million architects, builders, craftspeople, interior designers, building owners, homeowners and home buyers.
Pete lives in a classic Sears house, a Craftsman-style Four Square built in 1924, which he has lovingly restored over a period of 30 years. Resting on a bluff near the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., just four miles from the White House, Pete’s home is part of the Palisades neighborhood, which used to be a summer retreat for the District’s over-heated denizens.
Before joining Active Interest Media (AIM), Pete co-founded Restore Media in 2000 which was sold to AIM in 2012. Before this, Pete spent 17 years at trade publishing giant Hanley Wood, where he helped launch the Remodeling Show, the first trade conference and exhibition aimed at the business needs and interests of professional remodeling contractors. He was also publisher of Hanley Wood’s Remodeling, Custom Home, and Kitchen and Bath Showroom magazines and was the creator of Remodeling’s Big 50 Conference (now called the Leadership Conference).
Pete participates actively with the American Institute of Architects’ Historic Resources Committee and also serves as President of the Washington Mid Atlantic Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. He is a long-time member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and an enthusiastic advocate for urbanism, the revitalization of historic neighborhoods and the benefits of sustainability, including the adaptive reuse of historic buildings.
