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Design Awards
Presenting the 38th Annual California Preservation Awards (2021)
Thank you for participating!
Watch the Annual Awards Gala Ceremony on our YouTube page and via the embedded video below.
Old Buildings, New Housing | Tuesday, Oct. 5, 12-1 pm PST– Meeting format
Old Buildings, New Housing | Tuesday, Oct. 5, 12-1 pm PST – Meeting format
This one-hour program will have a quick review of project narrative, challenges, and victories, followed by social networking/breakout rooms where attendees can choose the project of their interest and network and ask questions of our project participants and others in attendance.
This will be an open meeting. Your video and microphone will be muted by default, but you are given the ability to activate your own microphone and video if you wish. Unlike CPF webinars attendees will have the opportunity to network with each other and with project participants and speakers.
Focus Projects:
- Angelus Funeral Home/Paul R. Williams Family Apartments, Los Angeles. Rehabilitation. Adaptive reuse of the Black-owned Angelus Funeral Home, designed by prominent African American master architect Paul R. Williams, FAIA to preserve a community icon and to provide 41 units of low- to very low-income housing.
- The Tioga, Merced. The Tioga, built in 1928 as the Hotel Tioga, was rehabilitated as a 70-unit apartment building for professionals and UC Merced graduate students. A catalyst to reinvigorate downtown Merced, it is attracting new residents and restoring vitality to Main Street.
- San Francisco Animal Care and Control, San Francisco. Rehabilitation. The San Francisco Animal Care & Control project is an adaptive reuse of a historic unreinforced masonry building. The design fulfills ACC’s mission of providing housing and care to all species, serving the public and remaining operational during major emergencies.
Mid-Century Modernism in California | Tuesday, Oct. 12, 12-1 pm PST - Meeting format
Mid-Century Modernism in California | Tuesday, Oct. 12, 12-1 pm PST – Meeting format
This one-hour program will have a quick review of project narrative, challenges, and victories, followed by social networking/breakout rooms where attendees can choose the project of their interest and network and ask questions of our project participants and others in attendance.
This will be an open meeting. Your video and microphone will be muted by default, but you are given the ability to activate your own microphone and video if you wish. Unlike CPF webinars attendees will have the opportunity to network with each other and with project participants and speakers.
Focus Projects:
- Restoration of Gregory Ain’s 1952 Greene Residence, Los Angeles. Reconstruction or Contextual Infill. The project is the restoration of house designed by architect Gregory Ain in collaboration with Joseph Johnson and Alfred Day, originally built in 1952, severely damaged by fire in 2018, and rebuilt through research, and recreation of construction documents.
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) Munk Lab, La Jolla. Preservation or Restoration. Situated on a coastal bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, architect Lloyd Ruocco’s seminal design for IGPP Munk Lab has been an incubator of scientific and geophysical exploration and advancement since its original construction in 1963.
- Balboa Park Pool, San Francisco. Rehabilitation. This beloved 1958 community natatorium was degraded, unwelcoming, and seismically unsafe. Careful interventions preserved historic integrity of the concrete structure and wood-beamed ceiling alongside upgraded structural and environmental systems. This local icon improves wellness and recreational equity among underserved communities.
After-Hours Virtual Mix-and-Mingle | Thursday, Oct. 14, 6-7 PM PST - Kumospace
After-Hours Virtual Mix-and-Mingle | Thursday, Oct. 14, 6-7 PM PST – Kumospace
Meet your fellow preservationists, sponsors, project teams, and CPF in this informal virtual networking room. Try the new CPF Kumospace room, grab a “virtual” drink, visit the exhibit tables, socialize with friends and more at this free networking event.
Creative Rehab in Action | Tuesday, Oct. 19, 12-1 pm PST - Meeting format
Creative Rehab in Action | Tuesday, Oct. 19, 12-1 pm PST – Meeting format
This one-hour program will have a quick review of project narrative, challenges, and victories, followed by social networking/breakout rooms where attendees can choose the project of their interest and network and ask questions of our project participants and others in attendance.
This will be an open meeting. Your video and microphone will be muted by default, but you are given the ability to activate your own microphone and video if you wish. Unlike CPF webinars attendees will have the opportunity to network with each other and with project participants and speakers.
Focus Projects:
- Geneva Car Barn & Powerhouse, San Francisco. The adaptive reuse of the Geneva Car Barn & Powerhouse transforms a dilapidated historic landmark into a cultural hub. The design highlights the interplay of new and old, creating a revitalized building that serves the community while honoring its past.
- The Darling Hotel, Visalia. Realized by a deeply-rooted Visalia family, The Darling Hotel celebrates local heritage and introduces an exciting new place to experience the heart of Visalia by rejuvenating the city’s neglected historic courthouse with elegant, authentic architecture preserving and amplifying its legacy.
- The Presidio Theatre, San Francisco. Rehabilitation. The Presidio Theatre was recently rehabilitated and expanded to serve as a 600-seat multipurpose community theater that is suitable for a wide range of live performances, educational programs and as an events venue, with on-site facilities for backstage functions and visitor amenities. A full seismic and systems upgrade as well as site work and landscaping was completed in order to bring the building and site up to current fire, life-safety, and accessibility codes and to address Presidio Trust standards.
California Preservation Awards Virtual Gala | Thursday, October 21, 6 - 7 PM PST - Webinar
California Preservation Awards Virtual Gala | Thursday, October 21, 6:00 – 7:00 PM PST – Webinar
The California Preservation Awards are a statewide hallmark, recognizing excellence in historic preservation. The Awards ceremony includes the presentation of the Preservation Design Awards and the President’s Awards, bringing together hundreds of people each year to share and celebrate. This program, including the Preservation Design Awards, President’s Awards, and Trustee’s Awards ceremonies, will be held online on Thursday, October 21, 2021.
Congratulations to the 2021 Preservation Design Award Winners!
Craftsmanship/Preservation Technology
Annenberg Community Beach House Pool Repair and Rehabilitation
First Congregational Church of Long Beach
Los Angeles Union Station
Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church
Cultural Resource Studies
FORT: LA – Trails
Preserving Los Angeles – How Historic Places Can Transform America’s Cities
Sonoma Train District and Maysonnave Train Cottage
Preservation or Restoration
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) Munk Lab
Oakland Monster
Old Orange County Courthouse Rehabilitation
The Picture Bridge at the Langham Huntington Hotel
Reconstruction or Contextual Infill
Restoration of Gregory Ain’s 1952 Greene Residence
Rehabilitation
Angelus Funeral Home/Paul R. Williams Family Apartments
Balboa Park Pool
Geneva Car Barn & Powerhouse
Mills College Lisser Hall
San Francisco Animal Care and Control
The Darling Hotel
The Presidio Theatre
The Tioga
President’s Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award – Peyton Hall, FAIA
One of the leading historic preservation architects in the US, Peyton Hall, FAIA, has been practicing architecture, planning, and historic preservation since 1974 and has been involved in both advisory and advocacy organizations as well as serving as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California. Mr. Hall was elevated to Fellowship with the American Institute of Architects in 2005 with this commentary, “Peyton Hall has demonstrated a new model for the practice of historic architecture, educated the profession and the public in the value of cultural resources, and given new purpose to some of America’s most significant historic buildings through design and technology.”
Mr. Hall has dedicated his life to providing exemplary professionalism to all his projects, and has generously shared his knowledge and interest with non-profits, national committees, students, co-workers, and anyone with a genuine interest in learning.
His historic preservation projects have received awards including the AIA National Honor Award; National Trust for Historic Preservation National Honor Awards; Docomomo US Modernism in America Award; and numerous awards from the California Preservation Foundation, the Governor of California, Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission, and the Los Angeles Conservancy.
Mr. Hall has occupied a unique role in historic preservation practice in California and influenced a generation of preservation architects.
President’s Award for Advocacy – Mike Buhler, Esq.
We are pleased to bestow the President’s Award for Advocacy to Mike Buhler, Esq., President and CEO of the Fort Mason Center for the Arts. Of particular note is Mr. Buhler’s role in the establishment of the Legacy Bars and Restaurants initiative, including the San Francisco Legacy Business Registry and the Heritage Business Preservation Fund.
From 2010 to 2020, Mike Buhler served as Executive Director of San Francisco Heritage, a nonprofit organization founded in 1971 to preserve and enhance San Francisco’s unique architectural and cultural identity. Mike previously worked as the director of advocacy for the Los Angeles Conservancy from 2006 to 2010, and regional attorney for the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Western Office in San Francisco from 1998 to 2006. He holds a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law and a B.A. degree in history from the University of Washington in Seattle.
San Francisco Heritage has not only engaged the public in documenting and rediscovering San Francisco’s longtime businesses, but the organization has also spearheaded efforts to develop new tools for preserving the city’s diverse cultural and community institutions. Most significantly, the Legacy Bars & Restaurants project inspired the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to adopt legislation in March 2015 that establishes a Legacy Business Registry in San Francisco. The registry, which will be administered by the city, is the first of its kind nationwide and will be an important tool to recognize longstanding, community-serving businesses in San Francisco.
The successful program is a model that demonstrates how local organizations and government can work together to protect businesses that contribute to the history and identity of a community. Mr. Buhler has spent his career serving as an extraordinary example of effective advocacy and collaboration.
Trustee’s Awards
Geneva Car Barn & Powerhouse
Angelus Funeral Home/Paul R. Williams Family Apartments
Thank you to our Jury for the 2021 Preservation Design Awards!
Design Awards Co-Chair
Bill Schaeffer, Partner, Cello & Maudru Construction and CPF Vice President of Development
Napa
Bill Schaeffer is a partner at Cello & Maudru Construction Company. Based in Napa, Cello & Maudru specializes in winery, estate home, & hospitality construction building projects throughout the Bay Area. With the firm since 1996, he has been lucky enough to work on a few notable historic buildings, most recently the Buena Vista Winery Cellar & Caves (CPF 2013 Preservation Technology Award) & the adaptive reuse of the Mackintosh House in Sonoma for Scribe Winery. With a focus on history, architecture, and historic preservation, he received a bachelor of science in Environmental Design from UC Davis in 1993. Bill served on the board of Napa County Landmarks from 2002 to 2007. A Bay Area native, Bill lives with his wife and daughter, in a turn-of-the-century Shingle Style cottage.
Design Awards Co-Chair
Andrew Wolfram, AIA, Principal, TEF Design
San Francisco
Andrew is an optimistic advocate for building regeneration, urban architecture, and place-making and its power to advance responsible development. In his 25 years of practice, he has promoted the value of historically-significant sites and their role in providing cultural vitality to our cities and neighborhoods. He led the transformation of some of the Bay Area’s most significant historic landmarks into vibrant and relevant new uses. Cases in point: the Ferry Building, the Presidio Landmark, the Presidio Officers’ Club, and 140 New Montgomery Street.
His passion and expertise around preservation, renewal and waterfront development is reflected in his post to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) Design Review Board. He is a Trustee of the California Preservation Foundation, past President of the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commissiion, past President of DOCOMOMO, Vice President of the Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha International, and long time member of San Francisco Architectural Heritage, ULI and SPUR.
Eager to share his knowledge with others, Andrew speaks regularly at conferences and workshops He studied architecture at Columbia College in New York and earned his Master of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Phillip Aguilar, Vice President / Construction Manager, Plant Construction
San Francisco
Phillip has an Architecture background and has over 28 years of construction experience. Prior to joining Plant in 1999 as an assistant project manager he practiced as an Architect with a local firm with an emphasis on affordable and special user housing. As a project manager is responsible for maintaining the quality of work and the timely completion of the project. With a wealth of experience in MEP coordination and an architecture background, he brings a talent for realizing the architectural intent and functionality of the building systems to each of his projects. In 2019 he became a construction manager, with overall responsibility to the owner for the success of the project. He participates with and supervises the project form the beginning of preconstruction to final completion.
Suzanne Brown, Principal, Equity Community Builders
San Francisco
Suzanne joined Equity Community Builders in 2005 as a Project Manager and became a Principal in 2014. Suzanne’s energy and passion for the community is evident in her work and personal life. She brings comprehensive knowledge of the development process, design and project management, construction management, and sustainable building practices. As an advocate for sustainable design and construction, she has managed numerous LEED projects including two LEED Platinum buildings.
Suzanne received her B.S in Civil Engineering with a minor in Architecture in 1992 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and her Masters in Structural Engineering in 1997 from Georgia Tech in Atlanta. She holds both Professional Engineer and Structural Engineer licenses in California.
Paul Halajian, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Paul Halajian Architects
Clovis
Paul Halajian has been practicing architecture for over 30 years and has developed a portfolio of award winning projects in both the public and private sectors. He values a well-rounded approach to architecture that places equal importance on design, constructability, sustainability, project parameters, and client service. Collaboration with all project stakeholders and mentorship of emerging professionals define his approach to practice.
Mr. Halajian earned both his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Master of Architecture Degree from the University of California, Berkeley. After completing graduate studies in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, Paul Halajian, AIA – LEED AP™ began practice in the internationally acclaimed San Francisco firm of EHDD Architecture and was named an Associate in the Firm. While with EHDD, Mr. Halajian served as Project Architect on a number of major university library projects. A native of Fresno California, Mr. Halajian left the Bay Area to return home to practice in Fresno because of his belief in the power of design to create a better environment for one of California’s most overlooked regions
Nina Mahjoub, PE, LEED AP, Principal, Holmes Structures
Los Angeles
Nina is a Principal with the structural engineering firm Holmes Structures, and she leads its Los Angeles office. Over the course of her career, she has garnered industry recognition for her dedication to the preservation of historic structures. The National Trust for Historic Preservation inducted Nina into its 40 Under 40 list, which celebrated her commitment to historic preservation. She is also a champion of environmentally-responsible building design. Nina holds a Master of Engineering in High Performance Structures from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master in World Heritage & Cultural Projects for Development from Universita de Torino and UNESCO, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. She resides in Los Angeles, California.
Jennifer Pont, Associate | Architectural Conservator, AIC PA
San Francisco
Jennifer is a San Francisco-based architectural conservator with Architectural Resources Group. She is a professional associate with the American Institute for Conservation and part of the Association for Preservation Technology and American Chemical Society. By melding architecture and science, she is able to study and analyze buildings and materials in a comprehensive and in-depth manner.
Lydia So, Principal, SOLYD Architecture, Management & Design
San Francisco
Lydia So is an astute architect and developer, who provides solutions for clients through design and economics thinking — making positive impacts on regional economic growth, transit oriented developments, cultural heritage preservations and public art advocacy. She founded and runs a successful minority women owned architecture and real estate development consulting company.
Lydia is a San Francisco City Commissioner serving her third term. Currently at Historic Preservation Commission, which provides governance to the Planning Dept. She is a member of Architectural Review Committee approving complex cultural resource assets and land use legislations. Prior to that she was an Arts Commissioner.
Lydia is a member of the Monument and Memorial Advisory Committee of San Francsico. Advisor to the San Francisco Symphony board. She is on the Board of Directors: BART Business Advisory Council, American Institute of Architects SF Chapter, Chinese Historical Society of America, and Asian American Architects & Engineers as Vice President.
Alan White, President, AQYER
Alhambra
Alan is the President and owner of AQYER, a technology consulting firm specializing in the non-destructive evaluation and documentation of buildings, primarily in the field of historic preservation; he is also the Vice President of the Western Chapter of the Association for Preservation Technology which is dedicated to promoting the best technology practices for protecting historic structures. Originally from the UK, Alan has a background in construction and engineering, his project experience is broad – from restoration of medieval properties in rural England, to analysis of modern buildings in major cities across the United States.
Roderick Wyllie, Partner, Surfacedesign, Inc.
San Francisco
Roderick Wyllie, FASLA, is an award-winning landscape architect and founding principal of Surfacedesign, Inc.. He has years of experience working on both public and private projects and brings a comprehensive knowledge of plants to each project. Roderick has managed a variety of complex projects including the Uber Campus in Mission Bay, San Francisco’s Bayfront Park, The Land’s End Visitor Center, The Barnacles at Pier 9, among others. His horticultural knowledge and passion for craft and material authenticity reinforce craftsmanship and attention to detail into each project at Surfacedesign.
Kevin Zucco, SE, LEED AP, Executive Principal, ZFA Structural Engineers
Santa Rosa
Kevin Zucco, SE, LEED AP is an Executive Principal and President at ZFA Structural Engineers, based in the company’s Santa Rosa office. He is an accomplished engineer with over 25 years of experience in the structural design and analysis of historic structures throughout Northern California. Many of his projects have won preservation and structural engineering awards and have been featured in STRUCTURE magazine. He is actively involved in a variety of community organizations and has served in various positions with professional groups such as the City of Santa Rosa Design Review Board, Chamber of Commerce Advocacy Council, AIA local chapter Board of Directors, and the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) Sustainable Design Committee.
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Press Kits and Press Releases
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Design Awards 2021 Press Release
View an interactive map of this year’s Preservation Design Award winners.
About the Preservation Design Awards
Since 1983 over 550 projects have been recognized with a Preservation Design Award. Winning projects are selected by a jury of top professionals in the fields of architecture, engineering, planning, and history, as well as renowned architecture critics and journalists. The jury selects projects that have furthered, to a notable degree, the purposes of the profession, consistent with the California Preservation Foundation’s mission.
About the President’s Awards
President’s Awards honor people deserving of special recognition for their outstanding preservation efforts. Since its inception in 1991, this program has recognized more than 155 individuals and organizations whose work allows others to gain a deeper appreciation of historic resources and their value to California’s economy, environment and quality of life. All proceeds from this event support the California Preservation Foundation’s statewide education and advocacy programs.
