The Association of Licensed Architects (ALA) announced its 21st annual Design Awards winners, which recognized projects for design and construction achievement. They include an Iowa brewery, biotechnology company headquarters, school play garden, condominium building in Chicago and health center.

A total of 43 awards were presented in commercial, institutional, residential, religious, interior and unbuilt categories. The highest honor, the Don Erickson Presidential Award, went to Singlespeed Brewery in Waterloo, Iowa. The project, a brewery, beer hall, restaurant and retail space, was designed by Mike Bechtel of Invision Architecture, Waterloo. Judges lauded the project for its adaptive reuse of a historic 1927 bakery building, noting its appealing expression of structural elements. The project also received a Silver Award in the Commercial category.

Gold Award winners included: Buchanan County Outpatient Unit Expansion, Independence, Iowa, by INVISION Architecture, Waterloo,; CA Washington Condominiums, Chicago, by SGW Architects, Chicago; Latin School Play Garden, Chicago, by Level Architecture, and Unisphere, Silver Spring, Md., by EwingCole, Philadelphia.

“We were inspired by this year’s many award winners and the gathering of so many firms at the awards dinner,” said Joanne Sullivan, ALA executive director. “Our judges praised Presidential and Gold Award winning projects, in particular, for qualities such as use of color and light and innovative, purposeful design.”

ALA 2019 Design Awards entries were evaluated by a panel of judges including Stephen Bruns, ALA, principal, Bruns Architecture, Milwaukee, Joseph Geoghegan, Jr., ALA, NCARB, chief architect and principal, RGLA, Schiller Park, Ill., Natalie Hicks, AIA, NCARB, Wright Heerema Architects, Chicago, Alfredo Marr, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, principal, Lucien LaGrange Studio, Chicago, and Michelle Rumsa, ALA, Edgewater Resources, St. Joseph, Mich

To view a full list of all the winners, visit www.alatoday.org/design-awards-program. The 2019 ALA Design Award Winners include:

Presidential Award/Gold Award:

Category: Commercial

Singlespeed Brewery, Waterloo

INVISION Architecture, Waterloo

Mike Bechtel, designer

Peters Construction, contractor

Singlespeed Brewery, owner

Gold Awards

Category: Institutional

Buchanan County Outpatient Unit Expansion, Independence, Iowa

INVISION Architecture, Waterloo

Jason DeVries, designer

Larson Construction, contractor

Buchanan County Health Center, owner

Category: Residential 2

CA Washington, Chicago

SGW Architects, Chicago

SGW Architects, designer

Maris Construction., contractor

Belgravia Group, owner

Category: Institutional

Latin School Play Garden, Chicago

Level Architecture, Chicago

Michael Wilkinson, Greg Gibson and Michelle Sakayan, designers

Larry Asimow Landscaping, contractor

Latin School of Chicago, owner

Category: Commercial

Unisphere, Silver Spring, Md.

EwingCole, Philadelphia

Olga Zaremba, Gayle Lane, designers

Whiting Turner, contractor

United Therapeutics Corp., owner

Silver Awards

Category: Residential 2

328 W. Wisconsin, Chicago

Sullivan, Goulette, Wilson Ltd., Chicago

SGW Architects, designer

Maris Construction, contractor

Belgravia Group, owner

Category: Interior Architecture

Architect’s Office, Chicago

UrbanWorks, Ltd., Chicago

Patricia Saldana Natke, designer

Urban Equities Construction, contractor

Patricia Saldana Natke, owner

Category: Commercial

Courtyard by Marriott at Techworks, Waterloo

INVISION Architecture, Waterloo

Mike Bechtel, designer

Ryan Companies, contractor

Financial District Properties, owner

Category: Religious

First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lorain, Ohio

GROTH Design Group, Cedarburg, Wis.

Paul Barribeau, designer; liturgical consultant: Dekker/Perich/Sabatini

Thomas and Marker Construction, contractor

Category: Institutional

Harlan Rogers Concessions, Fort Dodge, Iowa

ASK Studio, Brent Schipper, Mike Dean, designers

Woodruff Construction, contractor

Fort Dodge Parks, Recreation and Forestry, owner

Category: Unbuilt

Harmonic Farms, Costa Rica

Peterssen/Keller Architecture, Minneapolis

Gabriel Keller, Lars Peterssen, Chad Healy, designers

Category: Residential 1

Huntington Residence, Wayzata, Minn.

Peterssen/Keller Architecture, Minneapolis, Minn.

Ted Martin and Gabriel Keller, designers

Elevation Homes, contractor

Category: Commercial

Medical Cannabis Cultivation Facility, Akron, Ohio

Urban Green Design, Cincinnati, Ohio

Jeremy Schlicher, Urban Green Design, designers

Summit Construction, contractor

Midwest Development, owner

Category: Residential 1

Orono Modern, Orono, Minn.

Peterssen/Keller Architecture, Minneapolis, Minn.

Ted Martin and Lars Peterssen, designers

Streeter + Associates, contractor

Category: Religious

St. Catherine of Siena Sanctuary Alteration, Trumbull, Conn.

Duncan G. Stroik Architect, South Bend, Ind.

Duncan G. Stroik, designer

Victor Zucchi & Son, contractor

Reverend Joseph A. Marcello, owner

Category: Religious

Shepherd of the Prairie Lutheran Church, Huntley, Ill.

GROTH Design Group, Cedarburg, Wis.

Paul Barribeau, designer

Shales McNutt Construction, contractor

Shepherd of the Prairie Lutheran Church, owner

Category: Commercial

Singlespeed Brewery, Waterloo

INVISION Architecture, Waterloo

Mike Bechtel, designer

Peters Construction, contractor

Singlespeed Brewery, owner

Category: Institutional

South Loop Elementary School, Chicago

SMNG A Ltd., Chicago

SMNG A, designer

Madison Construction, contractor

Public Building Commission, Chicago Public Schools, owner

Category: Residential 1

Square Lake Cabin, May Township, Minn.

Peterssen/Keller Architecture, Minneapolis, Minn.

Lars Peterssen and Brent Nelson, designers

Elevation Homes, contractor

Category: Institutional

Story County Outpatient Unit Expansion, Nevada, Iowa

INVISION Architecture, Waterloo

Jason DeVries, designer

Graham Construction, contractor Story County Medical Center, owner