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The 2023 Residential Design Architecture Awards Are Open for Entries
The RD Architecture Awards recognize excellence in custom residential architectural design. This is a different kind of awards competition that covers the breadth and scope of work by talented residential architects and architectural designers. We understand that contemporary and contextual projects are sometimes difficult to judge against each…
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the 2022 rdaa winners
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complete list of 2022 Residential Design Architecture Award winners
The 2022 Residential Design Architecture Awards (RDAA) received nearly 370 entries in 11 categories of residential design. With such a large number of entries from the top firms in the country, the competition was heated, and our judges had some very tough decisions to make.…
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2022 RDAA | Project of the Year | Mar Vista | Woods + Dangaran
This project’s strong handling of architecture’s universals—space, proportion, and light—earned uniform praise from the jury. “This is the one I want to live in,” a judge said. Almost unreadable from the street, Woods + Dangaran’s ethereal house in Los Angeles’ Mar Vista neighborhood is a study in journey and destination,…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Rural or Vacation House | Goatbarn Lane | Renée de Gaudio Architecture
At once airy and compact, Goatbarn Lane exemplifies the careful fitting of building to site. “The architecture is totally thought through—every inch of this project is accounted for. It really holds together,” a judge said about this full-time house in the Colorado mountains. The owner, who is also the architect’s father, would no…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Rural or Vacation House | Stony Hill | Bates Masi + Architects
Nuanced references to former land-use patterns regularly show up, like apparitions, in Paul Masi’s work, and Stony Hill is no different. The site of the first colonial house built here in 1680, it had once been part of a pastureland with low stone walls used to contain and rotate grazing livestock. The owners…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Rural or Vacation House | Bucks County Residence | Architecture Research Office
The judges admired this Bauhaus-inflected building that beautifully displays the Americana and modern furniture collections of two former Knoll executives. Designed for the owners to age in place, it dispels any notion that a modernist house cannot be playful and warm. The crisply tailored, one-story pavilion is uniquely responsive to the rural site…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Rural or Vacation House | Kua Bay | Walker Warner Architects
No one builds a house in Hawaii so they can live indoors. The entire exercise is about immersion in the incomparable, elemental scenery. And few firms are as well equipped to design houses in service to that goal as Walker Warner is. Greg Warner grew up in Hawaii, developing his playbook for harnessing…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Rural or Vacation House | Constant Springs | Alterstudio
Is it rural or is it urban? This new house overlooking an escarpment occupies that liminal zone between the two—a close-in suburb in Austin that’s both lush and walkable. And, in a way, it also mediates between the built environment and the natural one, as it literally embraces the existing trees on site.
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2022 RDAA | Custom Urban House | Water's Edge Residence | A Parallel Architecture
“When you walk through this house—even if you don’t notice it—you sense that everything is just lasered in and so tight,” says Eric Barth, AIA. Indeed, there’s a feeling of calm the house inspires just by looking at it. Such is the effect of exacting precision and deft proportioning. You might expect no…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Urban House | Twentieth | Woods + Dangaran
Designed for a young family, this 7,200-square-foot house wraps around a central courtyard to summon both light and privacy on a typical suburban lot. Its formal footprint also sets up a tantalizing progression meant to pull people through the rooms. “We try not to celebrate…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Urban House | Alcott Street | Shipley Architects
There has always been an exuberant, improvisational quality to Dan Shipley’s architecture, and nowhere is that spirit more evident than in the home he and his wife, Lea Bauman, have built for themselves in Dallas. “Most architects don’t get to build their own house, but I’ve been lucky to have…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Urban House | Franzen House | Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
Located on a tight suburban lot, this new, modern house replaces one that “was built on fill and falling down the hill,” says architect Robert Gurney, FAIA. And quite the hill it is. When the real estate agent sold the client the lot as a…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Period or Vernacular House | House on a Wharf | Elliott Architects
The previous vernacular building on this site had lived many lives—a steamboat ferry terminal, a laundromat, an apartment house, and a private home. But, after more than 100 years of periodic flooding, it was at the end of its life span for any kind of use. Zoned commercial, the stunning site was at…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Period of Vernacular House | Cottagewood Beach House | PKA Architecture
Custom Builder Steven Streeter has built houses for many nationally known firms, but when it came time to build his own lakeside house, he turned to local favorite PKA Architecture. He and the firm have a long history of collaboration on a variety of projects—some modern, some traditional, and some transitional. They have…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Period or Vernacular House | Trott Residence | Tina Govan Architect with ThoughtCraft Architects
It’s a mistake to think a house in the city can’t bring you closer to nature and community life, for that’s exactly what this new house by Tina Govan Architect and ThoughtCraft Architects does for its client. Inspired by the existing fabric, especially a historic house with a commodious front porch and a…
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2022 RDAA | Renovation | Shibui | Nick Deaver Architect
“We like to elevate the architecture by trying to draw your attention away from it,” says architect Nick Deaver. This project began as little more than a shack, a building many would not have thought to save. Its principal virtue was a 5-acre site immersed in nature, tumbling down to the Blanco River.
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2022 RDAA | Renovation | Round House | Feldman Architecture
“If we had done a new house from the ground up, it would have been easier and not as expensive, but it wouldn’t have been as wonderful,” says Anjali Iyer, project architect on the renovation of Round House. In reality, the renovation was more of a reinvention, using the dynamic shape of the…
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2022 RDAA | Renovation | Red Maple House | Colleen Healey Architecture
Constraints are almost a cliché on urban lots these days. But here the solutions are anything but ordinary. A dilapidated carriage house sat on an 11,000-square-foot flag lot—which seems large until you plan for the looming red maple near the center and the need for privacy from seven adjacent neighbors.
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2022 RDAA | Renovation | Oakdell Residence | Assemblage+
When this midcentury project in Studio City came to Assembledge+, it was largely untouched by time. The sawtooth plan engaged fairly well with the commodious site, given the standards and opportunities of its period, but David Thompson’s clients knew it could do more. And the home was in dire need of a big…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Period Renovation | RaveOn | Nick Deaver Architect
What if you could go back in time and build the perfect Midcentury Modern house right from the start? And what if you had a secret weapon from today’s arsenal in the form of modern materials and methods? That is the beauty and the superpower of renovation…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Period Renovation | McIntyre House | Richard Beard Architects
“How do you deal with the ethos of a historically significant building? You don’t shy away from it—you push it forward and create something unique and of its time, yet compatible with the old,” a judge said approvingly of the McIntyre renovation. This 1961 house by Joseph Esherick had been oddly compartmentalized at…
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2022 RDAA | Architectural Interiors | York Street Passive Townhouse | Mowery Marsh Architects
Older urban townhouses are string bean–like spaces that challenge even the most astute designers, and more so when they are a mere 16 feet wide. Comprising four stories including the basement, this 1880s building went from dreary to dramatic with its light-well insertions, botanical wallpapers, and enigmatic black core. “They made it feel…
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2022 RDAA | Architectural Interiors | Vail Family Condo | HMH Architecture + Interiors
A series of strategic moves transformed this generic ski condo into a modern retreat for extended family. The judges particularly admired the reconfigured spiral stair—a clunky relic of the 1970s and a touchstone for the family’s long history there. Its treads were refinished to match the white oak floors, and its handrail replaced…
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2022 RDAA | Residential Special Constraints | House. Pool. Garden | McInturff Architects
Linear and layered, this house’s fluent response to a complicated urban site earned high praise from the judges. On a narrow corner lot, the sectionally inventive design funnels in light while connecting a series of beautifully detailed interiors to an outdoor pool. “They barely allude to the constraints of the site,” a judge…
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2022 RDAA | Residential Special Constraints | Gallatin Passive House | North River Architecture & Planning
Peter Reynolds is a true believer in Passive House, so much so that he built his own. And he thinks the time has finally come to go large with the strategy for designing and building more sustainably. He has a big vision for his company’s FlexHouse template, derived from his personal house, which…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Accessory or Outbuilding | Filtered Frame Dock | Matt Fajkus Architecture
Almost like a bird alighting on a rock, Filtered Frame Dock captures a moment of frozen motion at the water’s edge. Designed as a lakeside home’s only shoreline access, the outbuilding serves multiple purposes—sheltered outdoor entertainment space, water sports storage, and a refuge from the stifling heat on land—but it elevates those functions…
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2022 RDAA | Custom Outdoor Living Design | Desert Palisades | Woods + Dangaran
“The desert always wins” is the certainty that guided Brett Woods’ design of his own family retreat in the hills above Palm Springs. “It can be 50 degrees at night and 112 the next day. That fluctuation takes a toll on people, cars, objects, and houses,” he says. This Miesian pavilion takes the…
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2022 RDAA | Architectural Details | Tarrytown Residence | Alterstudio Architecture
“When our clients approached us about doing this house, they told us that they liked our work, but they really like dark houses,” Kevin Alter recalls. “We asked, ‘How dark is dark?’” As it turned out, dark was very dark...
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2022 RDAA | Architectural Details | Georgetown House | McInturff Architects
Mark McInturff, FAIA, renovated this condo-with-a-view three times and for three different owners over a 20-year period. The third time produced the charm—a shimmering stair that elevates all the previous interventions. The original 1940s stair was small and winding, almost unsafe, Mark says. What’s more, the kitchen and dining room are on the…
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2022 RDAA | Architectural Details | Nineteenth Street Residence | Sidell Pakravan Architects
With its lofty views of the San Francisco skyline, this otherwise banal apartment unit was ripe for reinvention. Low‑ceilinged and spatially uninspired, it was transformed with the insertion of two rectangular walnut volumes. One volume defines the vertical circulation; the other envelopes a living area that breaks through the roof to a new…
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2022 RDAA | Custom on the Boards | Honey Creek Farm | Cotton Estes Architect
“In Texas, when it rains, it pours,” says architect Cotton Estes. This suburban house for a young couple (one is a hydrologist) is designed and engineered to capture those downpours (up to the 500-year storm volume), use the water for the house, and then filter it back into the Honey Creek watershed—cleaner than…
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2022 RDAA | Custom on the Boards | Ranch House for a Naturalist | Max Levy Architect
Fourteen feet wide and about 100 feet long, this skinny house on a 3,000-acre working cattle ranch ups the ante on communing with nature. Located in a part of Texas where “the great plains thistle out,” the building was slid between trees to avoid cutting them down and raised off the ground to…
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