Preservation Design Awards

• Award Categories
• Apply for an Award
• Sample Award Application
• 2008 Awards Event
• 2008 Preservation Design Award Winners
  
• Forms and Information for 2008 Winners (Entrants ONLY)
• Forms and Information for 2008 Winners (ALL)
• Sponsor

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.

Award Categories

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. Archeology and Interpretive Exhibits: Archeology: 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.

Apply for an Award

Applications for 2008 Preservation Design Awards were due May 19, 2008 by 5:00 p.m. Please check back in early 2009 for next year's submission deadlines and application form!

Download the 2008 Preservation Design Awards Application Form. The 2009 Form will be similar.

Sample Award Application

Sample Entry Form
Sample Project Description
Sample PowerPoint

2008 Awards Event

The 25th Annual Preservation Design Awards

Saturday, October 18, 2008

THE QUEEN MARY
Long Beach, CA

Accommodations
A block of staterooms are being held on board the Queen Mary for the nights of Friday, October 17 and Saturday, October 18 at $139 per night (plus tax and fees). Please call (562) 432-6964 and reference the California Preservation Foundation to book. This special rate will only be available until September 17 - so don't wait!

Detailed information on the awards event as well as tickets sales will become available online by Friday, July 25th.

2008 Preservation Design Award Winners

REHABILITATION-LARGE CATEGORY

• Antlers Hotel Rehabilitation, Lemoore - McCandless & Associates Architects, Inc.
• Cavallo Point - The Lodge at Golden Gate, Sausalito - Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects and Architectural Resources Group
• The Olympic Club - City Clubhouse, San Francisco - BraytonHughes Design Studios

REHABILITATION-SMALL CATEGORY

• San Timoteo Canyon Schoolhouse Restoration, Calimesa - Heritage Architecture and Planning

RESTORATION CATEGORY

• Balboa Theatre Restoration, San Diego - Heritage Architecture and Planning
• Ennis House Stabilization & Restoration Project, Los Angeles - Historic Resources Group
• The MacGowan Residence, Los Angeles - Drisko Studio Architects, Inc.
• The Huntington Art Gallery Rehabilitation, San Marino - The Huntington Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
• Villa Riviera, Long Beach - Spectra Company

RECONSTRUCTION CATEGORY

• Stanford Arizona Garden, Palo Alto - Stanford University

CONTEXTUAL IN-FILL CATEGORY

• Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, Tracy - ELS Architecture and Urban Design

SUSTAINABILITY CATEGORY

• Cavallo Point - The Lodge at Golden Gate, Sausalito - Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects and Architectural Resources Group
• Pasadena City Hall Seismic Upgrade & Rehabilitation - Architectural Resources Group
• Washington Township Veterans' Memorial Building, Fremont - Siegal & Strain Architects

CULTURAL RESOURCE STUDIES AND REPOTS CATEGORY

• Architecture, Ethnicity and Historic Landscapes of California's San Joaquin Valley - Planning and Development Department, City of Fresno
• City of Pasadena Context Report: Cultural Resources of the Recent Past - Historic Resources Group
• Historic Resources Study for Muir Woods National Monument, Marin County - National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
• Sacramento Historic City Cemetery Master Plan - Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey
• Space Shuttle Assessment, Mountain View - Page & Turnbull, Inc.

CRAFTSMANSHIP/PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY CATEGORY

1. Ennis House Stabilization & Restoration Project, Los Angeles - Historic Resources Group

INTERPRETIVE EXHIBITS CATEGORY

• SurveyLA Video, Los Angeles - City of Los Angeles, Office of Historic Resources

Forms and Information for 2008 Winners (Entrants ONLY)

Please carefully review and submit the timely and important forms below so that CPF can give you and your team your well-deserved recognition and properly present your award. Make sure take note of due dates!

• Program Book Text – Not available online as it is project specific! Please email ceisen@californiapreservation.org for a copy of your text. Make sure to carefully review the affiliates list and text on this form, as this is the exact copy that will go in the Preservation Design Awards Program Book, distributed at the event. If corrections are needed, please send the edits by no later than August 1, 2008. If no edits are received the text will go in the Program Book AS IS. It is the applicants’ responsibility to ensure that the affiliates list and text is complete and accurate.

• On-Stage Award Acceptors Form – Please confirm the information you provide to CPF on this form with all involved parties, and please remember to obtain tickets for each on-stage acceptor! Due August 1, 2008.

• Display Board Guidelines – If you have further questions regarding the display board or how CPF uses these for events, please contact our office. Due September 19th. Examples:
  
  PDA Board Sample 1
  PDA Board Sample 2
  PDA Board Sample 3

Forms and Information for 2008 Winners (ALL)

The 2008 Preservation Design Awards will be presented on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at a reception and awards ceremony aboard The Queen Mary, an historic ocean liner located in Long Beach, CA. Information and Forms for project Entrants only is above.

• Award Certificate Order Form – Each winning project Entrant will be given two complimentary certificates. Additional certificates may be ordered as needed. Both complimentary and additional certificates must be ordered using the enclosed form - one form for each certificate. Information will appear on the certificate as you designate on this form. Certificates ordered by September 19, 2008 will be available for pick-up at the awards ceremony (at the registration desk after the presentations).

• Postcard Order Form – Order a set or two of 500 deluxe, 5” x 7”, color, 13 pt. 100% recycled matte postcards highlighting your project and recognizing your company as a 2008 Preservation Design Award Winner. Samples enclosed. $200 for 1st set of 500, $150 per additional set; order and email photo by August 1, 2008.

• Guest List – Submit this form by July 18, 2008 or submit an Excel list to ceisen@californiapreservation.org and CPF will send an awards reception and ceremony invitation to your friends, family and colleagues!

Sponsor the 2008 Preservation Design Awards

Download the 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
• 10 total complimentary event tickets
• ¼ Page advertisement in 4 issues of CPF’s Newsletter
• ALL 2009 Conference Pillar and Capital Sponsor Benefits! (download 2008 Conference Sponsorship Packet for an example of Conference benefits)
• Plus all Capital, Pillar and Supporting Sponsor Benefits listed below


Capital Annual Sponsor – $5,000
• Company description in PDA Program Book
• 6 total complimentary event tickets
• ¼ Page advertisement in 2 issues of CPF’s Newsletter
• ALL 2009 Conference Pillar Sponsor Benefits! (download 2008 Conference Sponsorship Packet for an example of Conference benefits)
• Plus all Pillar and Supporting Sponsor Benefits listed below

Pillar Sponsor - $2,500
• Company logo in PDA Program Book
• Company logo in Awards Presentation PowerPoint
• 4 total complimentary event tickets
• Promotional items or brochures to be displayed at event
• Plus all Supporting Sponsor Benefits listed below

Supporting Sponsor - $1,000
Prominent placement of company name on:
• CPF’s Website – logo [34,000 views per month]
• CPF’s Newsletter [distribution of 1,500]
• Email blasts [6,000 on list]
• PDA Program Book
• PDA Awards Presentation PowerPoint

2008 Preservation Design Awards Benefits
• 2 complimentary event tickets
• VIP seating at event

Annual Benefits
• Complimentary President’s Circle Level membership with CPF

Non-Profit Organizations - $500
Would you like to demonstrate your support to CPF even though your organization is on a tight budget? The Non-Profit Organization sponsor level comes with all of the benefits of a Supporting Sponsor,and also includes the opportunity to distribute information at the Awards Reception!

Questions? Please contact Carolyn Eisen at (415) 495-0349 x202 or email ceisen@californiapreservation.org.

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