Honor Awards

3-Edge Residence
FAR + DANG
Dallas, Texas

Signazon
GFF
Plano, Texas

The slick, charcoal building sits among a flurry of off-white tilt-wall buildings on East Plano Parkway. GFF followed the client’s vision for a clean, minimal approach, but sought to effect a sensible identity in the design context.

Using tilt-wall construction, a dark paint, modest fenestration, and more, the 29,000-square-foot facility has a notable presence. At the same time, it reinforces thoughtfulness that is crucial to the client’s brand.

“This project offers a rigorous rethink of the ubiquitous tilt-up warehouse within the super-tight budget parameters of this prevalent Plano building type,” Burnette said. “It offers proof that good architecture can happen anywhere, for any program and for any budget.”

Pacific Plaza Pavilion
HKS, Inc.
Dallas, Texas

The 4,600-square-foot pavilion sits at the main entrance leading into Pacific Plaza Park, welcoming pedestrians with a grand shade-providing structure. Previously a surface parking lot, HKS helped transform the space into an iconic gateway that stands prominently at the critical downtown intersection of St. Paul and Pacific Avenue.

The pavilion undulates and morphs its spatial relationship to the landscape by reacting to the topographic change of the park. It also serves as a backdrop to concerts and other civic events while providing shade and the filtering of light.

“This project was a pleasure to review and discuss,” Spencer said. “Great care was taken to design this structure for above and below. It creates an iconic gathering space tied to the history of Pacific Avenue with morse code patterning. I really appreciate the attention taken to detail with this project.”

Estadio Borregos
Beck Architecture, LLC
Monterrey, Mexico

Tec de Monterrey, one of the top universities in Latin America, has had American football since 1945. The 143,300-square-foot facility is home to the entire athletic program, a key component to the university’s educational pedagogy.

Creating a facility that was accessible to all students and the community was essential, so Beck lowered the field level to bring the concourse to the street. The stadium is a two-level structure that echoes the architecture of the original classroom buildings on the core campus.

“This deft urban design provides an architectural solution for college football stadium,” Burnette said. “The project opens up the campus for future expansion with intermediate terminus into the sunken stadium while preserving street and game connection to the spectacular mountains above Monterrey.”

Baylor Scott & White Health Administrative Center
Perkins & Will
Dallas, Texas

The BSWH Administrative Center is not your typical office building layout. To foster collaboration between once siloed staff and eliminate corporate hierarchy, the 250,000-square-feet of office space is organized on two three-acre floor plates that extend across the entire site.

Multiple floor openings and communicating stairs connect the two levels, which encourages physical movement and reduces elevator use. Double-height amenity spaces and a five-story parking garage create an urban-scale porch that allows key social spaces to extend to the outdoors.

“A diagrammatically clear and architecturally rigorous response to climate, and site, this building literally elevates its program, creating community space and a welcoming presence,” Smith said.

Pittman Hotel
Perkins & Will
Dallas, Texas

The Pittman Hotel is a hinge point in time and scale. The Knights of Pythias Temple was Dallas’ first major commercial building designed, financed, and built by the Black community in 1916. Throughout the early 1900s, it served as the community’s business center and vibrant social hub.

But urban upheaval and social change left the building vacant. Now, renovations and an addition brings the project’s past into renewed dialogue. It aims to mark the culmination of a slow comeback for Deep Ellum as the neighborhood’s first hotel, and reconnects history to the urban patchwork of the district. 

“As a jury, we were all drawn to this project,” Spencer said. “It respects the history of place through a careful exterior restoration and a new building both in dialogue proportionally and spatial. It re-invigorates the street scape and urban fabric of Dallas in the way we hope all buildings will in our cities. Just beautiful.”

2000 Ross
HKS, Inc.
Dallas, Texas

With this project, HKS wondered: How can a parking garage become a catalyst for a more robust, sustainable downtown? The undeveloped block across the street from Trammell Crow Center (TCC) offered an opportunity to solve parking needs, but the design team saw potential beyond just another garage.

2000 Ross has high-quality architectural expression and a ground plane of active uses. HKS said it extends the progressive international aesthetic of the Dallas Arts District and helps transform the neighborhood into an active, bright, uplifting and innovative area.

“This project is an elegant reinvention of the sunbelt-city parking garage into something more than just another city block parking island,” Burnette said. “It becomes a new connector and a future platform—a base for interaction and walking about the city.”

University of North Texas College of Law
Stantec
Dallas, Texas

“An exquisitely preserved, restored, and adaptive reuse of the historic Dallas Municipal Building, it is the perfect setting for a college of law,” Spencer said.

All photos are courtesy of AIA Dallas.

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