“An exciting and innovative approach to preservation. The careful restoration preserves the structure, contributing to the scale of the neighborhood.…

“Dignity and sense of place marked this project as distinctive. This project’s reading of vernacular ‘truck stop’ typology coupled with…

“This rigorous and artful composition of an architectural ‘kit of parts’ achieves a sense of substance, individuality, and community in…

“Carefully designed buildings and a sensitive site plan set up a structural timber building supporting a low embodied energy approach…

“The combination of traditional and advanced technologies creates a contrast that is clear yet balanced in this innovative home that…

“The personalization of this tiny home was reflected in the careful choices around the board-and-batten cladding, color in the kitchen,…

“The jury finds this project — one done within a tight budget and with robust durability requirements — to express…

“This project is a bold and exemplary model of adaptive reuse, reimagining an abandoned office building into an engaging civic…

“The exquisitely detailed and executed rammed earth walls artfully express the natural and the man-made in this ephemeral architectural composition.”—…

“The respect for natural materials, craft, and traditional materials comes across in the design of this beautifully scaled addition to…

“Designing schools is difficult: Engaging students, bringing in light, and developing spaces to learn and play are challenging. With the…

“The jury commends this design for respecting the scale and rhythm of the historic neighborhood, its restrained use of materials…

“This project was both debated and enjoyed by the jury. Choosing not to change or impact the existing building nor…

“This combination of new and old successfully demonstrates a new approach to addition/restoration projects. The new brick addition delivers something…

“This project stood out in its consideration of scale as well as in its temporary nature. In community spaces, the…

“Through a combination of restrained alteration and thoughtful editing, this project models an exemplary transformation of an existing building into…

“The Tree House is ephemeral yet has such clear geometries. Architecture for play and exploration is an important and unexplored…

“A much-needed amenity that isn’t often afforded the principles of good design. This grounded yet light-filled, warm-toned, poured-in-place concrete shelter…

The TxA 2021 Design Awards jury met virtually on May 7 to review 177 submissions, selecting 15 projects for recognition.

“This project creates a domestic  environment with architecture that is sympathetic and very thoughtful in terms of daylighting, proportional scale,…

“There’s a softness that is built into the color palette and the materiality of this building that makes it extremely…

“It’s a rich building, in a building type that is rarely rich. The standard of professional competency is really, really…

“I really appreciate the discipline they showed in not doing too much with a small space. The scale, structure, and…

“The architecture functions like a drawing: It’s a composition of folded planes that create entries, entrances, and courtyards that play…

“It’s a very inventive approach to a tight lot: minimizing the building footprint in favor of introducing an outdoor space…

“This project manages to be incredibly rigorous and cohesive in terms of materiality and massing while simultaneously providing a wide…

“It’s exciting to see a potentially prototypical approach to these abandoned strip malls. It gives me hope that there can…

“We all loved this project for the romantic and historic typology, but also for how delicate the touch was. They…

“This project was really well done in terms of adapting a historic building into an extremely functional building for the…

“This project seamlessly draws a direct relationship to the existing school of architecture and offers an expansion of the communal…

“The language, the material they employed, and the way they brought complexity to something that was uniform was extremely intelligent…

“Temporary Tiger addressed an issue that we were all collectively facing in a way that was responsive to the seriousness…

“This is overall the jury’s favorite residential project. And I say that because there is so much packed into such…

“I think that they’ve used a richness of materials without it being too chaotic. It’s not a collage — instead…

The Texas Society of Architect's 2020 Design Awards jurors — Stella Betts; Dan Kaplan, FAIA; Kirsten R. Murray, FAIA; and…

Here the most important thing is liberating the floor plan to permeate the whole public realm underneath the building, and…

It punches above its weight in terms of size and really just has a generous presence. — Dan Kaplan, FAIA

Integration of the site, architecture, and the buildings created a lot of different types of experiences and really wove together…

To me, it’s the strongest project we have, or one of the strongest ones — the craft and the detailing…

There’s something timeless and a little monumental about the forms, sort of “monumentality meets domesticity,” in a way. — Dan…

We really appreciated both the building and the landscape element. And the way the roof transitioned from interior to exterior,…

It was very innovative to actually get three different units and making sure they each get light. — Stella Betts

We all appreciated the layers of history, of site reclamation, and just the series of spaces that are created by…

Sports stadiums are usually very introverted and self-absorbed structures, and what I really loved about this project was how it’s…

Community facilities should be about that community, and this one, we found, had the most sense of place. It felt…

It’s about as stripped down as you can possibly get for the program of the project. We appreciated the simplicity…

It’s a very, very nicely detailed project with a lot of love that you see in its intentions. — Michel…

These were impeccably crafted rooms for conservation. … The wood detailing, the structural expression, the north white monitors, the care…

The architects were very smart — strategic in terms of demolition and editing out the head house, and exposing this…

What we talked about most with this house was the way the walls frame the patios and the exterior courtyards….…