Over the weekend, partners Daniel Kaven and Trevor William Lewis attended the Architizer A+ Awards Gala at Frank Gehry's Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. W/K was officially recognized by Architizer this year as one of the Top Small Firms in the world, and Daniel also had the honor of serving on the jury for several of the 2023 A+ design categories.
In addition to meeting and hearing talks by other winners including Lord Norman Foster, attendees also received a private tour of the extensive Mark Rothko exhibit after hours.
About the Awards:
The Architizer A+Awards is the largest awards program focused on promoting and celebrating the year’s best architecture and spaces. Its mission is to nurture the appreciation of meaningful architecture in the world and champion those designers that are integral to bringing great buildings to life.
View the full list of 2023 winners here:
https://winners.architizer.com/2023/Firms/
We're pleased to announce that Daniel Kaven has been selected to serve on the 11th Annual Architizer A+Awards jury this year.
The A+Awards is the world's largest architecture and building-product awards program focused on promoting and celebrating the year’s best architecture and spaces. With a prestigious jury comprised of design professionals from every continent, the 2023 A+Awards will champion the firms and individuals that have been integral to bringing great buildings to life.
The final deadline is 2/24. Submit HERE.
We’re excited to announce that our Heartwood Residence has been nominated for ArchDaily's 2023 Building of the Year Award in the Houses Category.
The Building of the Year Award is a peer-based, crowdsourced architecture award showcasing projects chosen by the general public. Over a two-week period, readers filter nominated projects down to the 15 best works featured on ArchDaily in 2022.
The more nominations we receive from the general public from now through February 15th, the better our chances of being shortlisted for the final vote.
Help us get Heartwood to the finals — vote before 2/15!
Thanks for all of your support.
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We are very proud to announce that Architecture of Normal (Birkhäuser, 2022) took the honors the other night at the 2022 GRAY Awards in the Product Design category. We had a great time accepting the award and celebrating our fellow winners at the epic GRAY Gala at Seattle’s Fairmont Olympic Hotel
The GRAY Award is a prestigious design accolade, awarded to designers in the categories of Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, and Product Design and determined by an international judging panel of design icons. This year's panel included Ini Archibong, Paul Cocksedge, Paolo Ferrari, Holly Hunt, Patrick Lam, and Mia Lehrer.
BIG NEWS! W/K partner Daniel Kaven’s book Architecture of Normal is a finalist for a 2022 GRAY Award in the Product Design category.
Now in its 6th year, GRAY Awards — a cross-disciplinary design awards program — recognizes the incredible work happening around the world.
Winners will be announced on December 5, 2022.
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We're proud to announce that our Heartwood residence has received a 2022 International Architecture Award Honorable Mention in the Private Homes category from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The awards will be presented at a gala in Athens next week.
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We’re excited to announce that both our Skyview Residence and our Royal Residence have been nominated for ArchDaily's 2022 Building of the Year Award in the Houses Category.
The Building of the Year Award is a peer-based, crowdsourced architecture award showcasing projects chosen by the general public. Over a two-week period, readers filter nominated projects down to the 15 best works featured on ArchDaily in 2021.
The more nominations we receive from the general public from now through February 9th, the better our chances of being shortlisted for the final vote. Help us move the needle on Skyview and Royal!
Thanks for all of your support.
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“The brilliant balance of wood and stone and closeness to the water gives this project a specific type of spirit, embodied by the name Heartwood.”
— 2021 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards Jury
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The 2021 Architecture MasterPrize jury has recognized our Skyview residence with an Honorable Mention in the category of Residential Design.
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We're excited to announce that our Royal residence has been honored with a 2021 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
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We’re thrilled to announce that our Royal project has been honored with a 2020 Architecture MasterPrize. The prestigious award, which in 2019 was presented at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, will be presented to this year’s winners at a gala event in 2021.
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W/K’s recently completed headquarters in Portland win an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Oregon Citation Award.
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Camp MINOH (Charlevoix, MI) is recognized with an AIA Michigan Honor Award.
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William / Kaven Architecture’s Camp MINOH Project in Charlevoix, Michigan, was recognized by AIA Michigan with an Honor Award. The 2019 jury, chaired by Matthew Kreilich of Snow Kreilich Architects, said of the project: “The restrained material palette, exposed structure and sense of craft in this home creates wonderful spaces to live while the sensitivity to massing and siting create a powerful connection to the beautiful site.”
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