Building Design + Construction’s 33rd annual Reconstruction Awards honor 20 projects for standing out as the best in renovation, preservation and adaptive reuse work.
For the 2016 Reconstruction Awards, BD+C awarded one Platinum award, 3 Gold awards, 10 Silver awards, four bronze awards, and two honorable mentions. The projects ranged in use from performing arts centers and boutique hotels to office buildings and cathedrals.
Each award-winning project is listed below. For more information about each, click on the project’s name or image.
Platinum
Exclusive Chicago Club re-emerges as a boutique hotel
Chicago, Ill.
Gold
Fire-charred synagogue rises to renewed glory
New York, N.Y.
Adaptive reuse juices up an abandoned power plant
Austin, Texas
Big-box store rescaled to serve as a preventitive-care clinic
Federal Way, Wash.
SILVER
The Gallery at the Three Arts Club
Chicago, Ill.
KETV-7 Burlington Station
Omaha, Neb.
Lovejoy Wharf
Boston, Mass.
St. Patrick's Cathedral
New York, N.Y.
The Cigar Factory
Charleston, S.C.
Marwen
Chicago, Ill.
Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine And Performing Arts, Brock University
St. Catherines, Ont.
Bay Area Metro Center
San Francisco, Calif.
Noble Chapel
Colma, Calif.
Arc at Old Colony
Chicago, Ill.
Bronze
San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building
San Francisco, Calif.
The Masonic Temple
Glendale, Calif.
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
BUzzards Bay, Mass.
The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C.
Honorable Mentions
QTS Chicago Data Center
Chicago, Ill.
Ennis Hall, Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, Ga.
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