Building Team Awards

Photo: Jason O'Rear/Chase Center
The Statue of Liberty Museum, Allianz Field, and the Long Beach Civic Center are three of the p...
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Birmingham’s Firehouse Shelter opened in February. In addition to living spaces, the shelter has medical exam rooms, a restful courtyard, a chapel, a classroom/training area, and case management offices where social workers can consult privately with residents. All photos: Edward Badham / EB Visual Productions
A coalition of ministries raised millions to build a new home for homeless men in Alabama’s lar...
read morePoettker Construction’s new headquarters brings together internal departments that had been spread over five buildings. Image: Courtesy of Poettker Construction
Poettker Construction’s new headquarters in rural Breese, Ill., is recognized with a Bronze Awa...
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This project was North American’s first design-build-finance-operate-maintenance contract, and the first to combine public infrastructure and private development. All Photos: Fukishima Photography.
The Long Beach Civic Center is honored with a Bronze Award in the 2020...
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Photo: James Ewing
The new home of the Minnesota United soccer club wins a Silver Award in BD+C’s 2020 Building Te...
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Emory Student Union, at Emory University, Atlanta, the unanimous choice of the jury as this year's Platinum Award winner in BD+C's "Building Team Awards."
Emory University Student Center wins the top award in 2020 Building Team Awards

Lady Liberty's original lamp was restored over a two-year period and moved into a glass vitrine in the new Statue of Liberty Museum. PHOTO: © IWAN BAAN

The wing-like exterior design of the Student Union is inspired by birds in flight and is meant to convey the school’s mission for innovation and discovery. All photos: Brad Feinknopf.
The Mori Hosseini Student Union at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University takes home a Silver Awa...
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Photo: Albert Vecerko/Esto
The New York Presbyterian David H. Koch Center wins a Silver Award in BD+C’s 2020 Building Team...
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All photos: Jeremy Bittermann / Joel B Sanders Agency
Tucson’s Banner University Medical Center is honored with a Gold Award in the 2020 Building Tea...
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The 1,000-seat theater, which sits atop a basketball court, required early planning to manage front- and back-of-house circulation, accessibility, infrastructure, and the integration of building systems. All photos: Andrew Rugge/Perkins Eastman
The CUNY New York City College of Technology Academic Building wins a Gold Award in BD+C’s 2020...
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The $1.4 billion Chase Center in San Francisco sits on 11 acres and encompasses an arena, broadcast studio, retail stores, two office buildings, plazas and an underground parking garage. The complex will soon add a hotel. Photos: Jason O'Rear/Chase Center
The new home of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, Chase Center, is honored with a Gold Award in...
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All photos: Jim Herndon
Learn why the Methodist Richardson Medical Center Vertical Expansion, in Richardson, Texas, was...
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The October 8 episode of BD+C's "The Weekly" is available for viewing on demand.

BD+C's Building Team Awards is the industry's only recognition program to honor projec...
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The design concept for the Pacific Visions wing is a sinuous biomorphic form achieved through a combination of steel and 839 glass panels that mimics water movement. Strategically placed downlights on 20-foot poles illuminate the building. Photos: Tom Bonner Photography.
Only new construction projects completed on or after January 1, 2019 are eligible. DEADLINE EXTEN...
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14 projects earn BD+C's 2019 Building Team Awards
The McDonald's Headquarters, the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, and Pacific Vi...
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A crew hoists an 8x48-foot module for the hotel, one of 150 such modules that were prefabbed in Poland and shipped to the U.S. Photo: Stephen B. Jacobs Group
Honorable mention: At 21 stories (15 of them modular), it is the world’s tallest modular hotel....

The 330-room Hilton Des Moines Downtown was developed through a three-party public-private partnership. Inset: Pivotek delivers one of 300 bath pods use in the project. Photos: Michael Robinson.
Bronze Award: Weitz, acting as developer and design-builder, leased the land and borrowed the mon...
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The design concept for the Pacific Visions wing is a sinuous biomorphic form achieved through a combination of steel and 839 glass panels that mimics water movement. Strategically placed downlights on 20-foot poles illuminate the building. Photos: Tom Bonner Photography.
Bronze Award: The new wing holds an exhibition space, a state-of-the-art 300-seat theater with a...
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Three 45,000-sf floors were added above the existing hospital, along with a new ED, ED observation unit, and PACU. Photos: Ben Tanner
Bronze Award: St. Lucie County’s population exploded to the point where the hospital needed lots...
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San Diego County’s new crime lab is expected to earn LEED Gold honors. The project team used native plants and high-efficiency irrigation to slash potable water use for landscaping by 50%; installed low-flow fixtures to trim water use for indoor plumbing by 40%; and cut energy consumption by 21%. Solar arrays provide 20% of the building’s energy. More than 75% of construction waste was diverted from landfill. Photos: Matt Lindquist, Lindquist Photography.
Silver Award: The 158,000-sf addition collocates three crime-fighting functions.

Midtown Center offers a 10,000-sf courtyard, retail shopping, restaurants, an 8,000-sf fitness center, a 5,000-sf rooftop terrace, a 1,000-sf conference center, storage/repair facilities for 100 bikes, and EV charging stations. The steel and glass tunnel bridges span 110 feet. Photos: Judy Davis, Hoachlander Davis Photography
Bureaucratic architecture, be damned!

The I CAN Center’s peeled-up canopy and rainscreen façade are clad in natural cedar. Photos: Yuzhu Zheng
Silver Award: Two problems quickly emerged: high concentrations of arsenic in the soil, and storm...
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Rancho Los Amigos earned three LEED Silver, one LEED Gold, and a LEED-NC for Healthcare certification (Master Site) for its 28-acre campus. Photos: Michael McLane, McLane + Studio
Silver Award: Taylor Design (architect) and SmithGroup (AOR) led an integrated design-build team...
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Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, located in downtown Houston, offers six distinct areas of education and training. All photos: Peter Molick Photography
Gold Award: Kinder High School, which can accommodate 750 9th through 12th graders, is one of onl...
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The exterior design concept for Krause Gateway Center refers to the traditional French pastry, “mille feuille.” The effect gives the impression that the building is “flying” over the site, 75% of which is public space with greenery and interactive landscape furniture. All photos: Michel Denance
Gold Award: Krause Gateway Center’s striking design takes its cue from the traditional French des...
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