2009 Conference
The Culture of Leisure -
Rethinking the California Dream
April 16 to 19, 2009 - Palm Springs
2008 Preservation Design Awards
2008 California Preservation Conference: Napa Valley
"Balance and Complexity:
The Vineyard and Beyond"
April 23-26, 2008
This highly competitive awards program honors exceptional historic preservation projects for excellence in design, construction, planning and technology. The Awards are presented each fall during a special reception and ceremony.
Nomination for the 26th Annual Preservation Design Awards are now being accepted to recognize California’s best preservation achievements.
*Deadline extended: Preservation Design Award Nominations due June 12, 2009.
The deadline for early submissions has been extended to Friday, May 8, 2009.
The final deadline for submitting nominations has been extended to Friday, June 12, 2009.
Download the 2009 Preservation Design Awards Application Form
Sample Entry Form
Sample Project Description
Sample PowerPoint
Awards are given in nine categories. To be eligible, projects must be located in California, or for a report or study, must deal with a California subject. Additionally, all entries should conform to the Secretary of Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. Entries encompassing architectural, landscape, and engineering projects are also welcome.
1. Preservation: This category includes the process of sustaining the form and extent of a structure, as it now exists. Preservation aims at halting further deterioration and providing structural stability, but does not involve significant rebuilding, restoration, or rehabilitation.
2. Rehabilitation: This category recognizes projects that make possible the continued historic use, or a compatible new use, through repair, alterations and additions, while preserving those portions or features which convey a site or structure’s historical, cultural or architectural values. Projects will be divided into the categories “Small” and “Large” by the jury at their sole discretion.
3. Restoration: This category addresses projects that accurately depict the form, features, and character of a property or structure as it appeared in a particular period of time by means of the removal of features from other periods in its history and reconstruction of missing features from the restoration period. Emphasis is on historical accuracy.
4. Reconstruction: This category includes the act or process of depicting, by means of new construction, a non-surviving site, landscape, building, structure, or object to replicate its appearance at a specific period of time and in its historic location. Emphasis is on historical accuracy.
5. Contextual In-Fill: This category includes compatible freestanding new construction adjacent, or in relation to, historic structures. Such work should reflect the compatibility of new work with historic properties in regard to matters of massing, size, scale, architectural features and the protection of the historic character of the property and its contextual surroundings.
6. Sustainability: This category recognizes projects that successfully and compatibly apply innovative technologies, sustainable design and / or practices to historic structures or sites, which promote environmental design, material and energy conservation, and an improved quality of life.
7. Cultural Resource Studies, Reports: This category includes creative, innovative, and precedent-setting approaches to technological issues, preservation planning issues, and educational awareness or advancement. Products submitted for this award may include, but are not limited to: architectural and/or historical inventories or surveys, historic structure reports, register nominations, computer software developed for preservation activities, planning studies, research papers, technological reports, film/video documentaries, and historic preservation elements of general plans.
8. Craftsmanship/Preservation Technology: Outstanding workmanship carried out in a project such as those specified above may be submitted in one of those categories and/or the Craftsmanship/Preservation Technology award. This category honors excellence in craftsmanship or technological innovation pertaining to a single element of an overall preservation project, such as stained glass restoration, duplication of historic wall finish or mural, wrought iron, stonework, etc.
9. Archaeology and Interpretive Exhibits: Archaeology: This category recognizes the scientific study and preservation of the vestigial remains of the built environment of previous cultures and societies; eligible work may include the documentation, stabilization or interpretation of the material remnants of structures associated with past human life and activities. Interpretive Exhibits: This category also recognizes projects that provide or integrate exhibits that offer information about an historic feature or site; eligible work may include interpretation of features or sites that bring to life the people, construction techniques, materials, or events associated with the place. Exhibits may be temporary or permanent.
CPF thanks the Sponsors of the 2008 Awards:
Spectra Company
Page & Turnbull, Inc.
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.
Auerbach Pollock & Friedlander
BOLDStone
Bank of America
Charles M. Salter Associates
Flagship PDG
Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc.
Heritage Architecture & Planning
KC Restoration
Master Systems Telecommunications
PGAdesign, Inc.
Plant Construction Company
The 2009 Sponsorship Packet will be available soon, until then, feel free to review last year's Sponsorship Packet.
The California Preservation Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization and relies on financial donations to continue providing important educational and advocacy programs. In addition, there are many benefits for sponsors such as recognition and advertising opportunities, complimentary award ceremony tickets, VIP seating, and more!
Cornerstone Annual Sponsor – $10,000
Capital Annual Sponsor – $5,000
Pillar Sponsor - $2,500
Supporting Sponsor - $1,000
Non-Profit Organizations - $500
Downloadable list and images of all winning projects - Page 1 and Page 2.
REHABILITATION-LARGE CATEGORY
REHABILITATION-SMALL CATEGORY
RESTORATION CATEGORY
RECONSTRUCTION CATEGORY
CONTEXTUAL IN-FILL CATEGORY
SUSTAINABILITY CATEGORY
CULTURAL RESOURCE STUDIES AND REPOTS CATEGORY
CRAFTSMANSHIP/PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY CATEGORY
INTERPRETIVE EXHIBITS CATEGORY
Questions? Please contact Judy Chen at (415) 495-0349 x200 or email jchen@californiapreservation.org.