Hey, Good Looking: This Year’s National Design Awards’ Winners
<p>The 2015 winners in American design include the architect of Denver’s Central Library, gorgeous vases, a floating house on Lake Huron, and beautiful, innovative landscaping.</p>
Photo: Florian Holzherr
Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Michael Graves, architect and industrial designer, who died aged 80 in March, and Denver's Central Library, which he designed (Denver, Colorado, 1995).
Courtesy of Michael Graves Architecture & Design
Architecture Design winner: MOS Architects. Pictured: 'Floating House,' a 2,200-square-foot house resting on a steel pontoon structure (Lake Huron, Canada, 2008).
Photo: Florian Holzherr
Director's Award: Jack Lenor Larsen. Pictured: Round Tower, 1970, wool damask. Gift of Larsen, Incorporated, 1973-67-3. Photo: Matt Flynn, courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Matt Flynn
Interior Design winner: Commune. Pictured: Mattison, interior design of high-end menswear store (West Hollywood, California; 2013).
Spencer Lowell
Communication Design winner: Project Projects. Pictured: Building for Brussels, exhibition graphics, printed materials, citywide advertising, accompanying book with three editions in English, Dutch, and French for Architecture Workroom Brussels and BOZAR (Brussels, Belgium, 2010 and 2012).
Courtesy of Project Projects
Landscape Architecture winner: Coen + Partners. Pictured: Jackson Meadow, an architectural community organized topographically, with a series of neighborhoods connected by a loop road and pedestrian corridors around a central public green (Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, master plan 2000–ongoing).
Peter Bastianelli-Kerze
Corporate and Institutional Achievement winner: Heath Ceramics. Pictured: Summer seasonal bud vases in succulent lime, pomelo, mint, and storm (2007).
Jeffery Cross
Design Mind winner: Rosanne Hagerty. Pictured: The John and Jill Ker Conway Residence is a 124-unit, mixed-income residence for chronically homeless veterans and low-income residents (Washington, DC; scheduled completion 2016). Project Partner and Co-Developer: McCormack Baron Salazar. Architect: Sorg Architects.
Courtesy of Sorg Architects
Product Design winner: Stephen Burks. Pictured: Man Made, solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, New York, 2011), produced in collaboration with artisans from Dakar, Senegal. Dwell presents Stephen Burks: Man Made (Milan, Italy; April 2014). Stephen Burks Man Made Brand (2011–ongoing).
Daniel Hakansson
Fashion Design winner: threeASFOUR. Pictured: inSALAAm inSHALLOm, exhibition of Spring / Summer 2012 collection at Beit Ha’ir Center for Urban Culture (Tel Aviv, Israel; 2011–12).
Tamara Weber
Interaction Design winner: John Underkoffler. Pictured: TAMPER, gestural remix tool for cinema, originally commissioned for and exhibited at the University Art Museum, California State University (Long Beach, California, 2008). Subsequently exhibited at the New Frontier venue at the Sundance Film Festival (Park City, Utah, 2009). Video rendering code by Andy Wingo, Blake Tregre, Kwindla Hultman Kramer. Rotoscoping and diagrammatic hands by Ed Baker.
Courtesy of Oblong Industries
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