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DePaul Carriage Factory Wins Excellence in Preservation Award
The Preservation League of New York State selected the DePaul Carriage Factory Apartments in Rochester to receive a 2015 award for Excellence in Historic Preservation. The League’s statewide awards program honors notable achievements in retaining, promoting and reusing New York State’s irreplaceable architectural heritage. “The Cunningham Carriage Factory was built for the production of horse-drawn […]
Golisano Institute of Sustainability Wins 2014 NAIOP Award of Excellence
SWBR was honored at the 2014 NAIOP Upstate New York Chapter Awards of Excellence ceremony for its work on RIT’s Golisano Institute of Sustainability in the Institutional category. The NAIOP awards celebrate the high-quality and innovative achievements of regional commercial real estate projects from the Upstate New York area, covering the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse regions. […]
Holy Rosary Apartments Wins 2014 NAIOP Award of Excellence
SWBR was honored at the 2014 NAIOP Upstate New York Chapter Awards of Excellence ceremony for its work for Holy Rosary Apartments in the Adaptive Reuse category. The NAIOP awards celebrate the high-quality and innovative achievements of regional commercial real estate projects from the Upstate New York area, covering the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse regions. There […]
RIT Golisano Institute of Sustainability Wins Two Design-Build Institute of America Awards
The Design-Build Institute of America recognized SWBR, FXFOWLE, and LeChase with the DBIA 2014 Excellence in Design and the DBIA 2014 National Award of Excellence in the education category for their work on the nationally recognized RIT Golisano Institute of Sustainability (RIT GIS). SWBR served as executive architect and architect of record on the project, […]
Riverside Apartments Wins NAIOP Award of Excellence
NAIOP, the commercial Real Estate Development Association and leading organization for developers, owners and related professionals in office, industrial and mixed-use real estate, recognized SWBR with a 2014 NAIOP Award of Excellence for its adaptive reuse and historic restoration work on DePaul Riverside Apartments. The firm served as architect of record for the $20 million […]
Halstead Square Wins 2014 Excelsior Award
In June, 2014, the New York State American Institute of Architects (AIA) presented SWBR with the 2014 Excelsior Award for its work on DePaul Halstead Square. The Excelsior Award honors the best examples of public architecture, focusing on neighborhood transformation, urban revitalization, site planning, exterior and interior design, and sustainability. The design of the 2.4-acre […]
Golisano Institute for Sustainability Wins Energetix Excellence in Green Lighting Award
SWBR was recognized by the Rochester Chapter of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) with RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability receiving the Energetix Excellence in Green Lighting Award. The overall building lighting was designed to exceed ASHRAE requirements by 45%. Lighting controls included extensive daylighting, multi-level illumination levels and interconnection to the campus control system. Specific attention […]
Peckham Hall Wins CSI and AIA Awards
Peckham Hall at Nazareth College was awarded a Rochester Chapter Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) 2014 Outstanding Project Award and a Rochester Chapter American Institute of Architects 2014 Merit Award. The CSI chapter award is given for exceptional teamwork between owner, designer and constructor realized through the CSI’s principles of how clear, well-prepared construction documents can […]
Golisano Institute of Sustainability Wins Region’s Best Project and Jeffery J. Zogg Awards
On Nov. 6, 2013, Engineering News-Record (ENR) New York recognized RIT Golisano Institute of Sustainability (RIT GIS) as the region’s best project in the Green Project category, which honors the country’s best construction projects and the companies that designed and built them. At the Build New York award ceremony in Saratoga Springs, December 10, 2013, […]
Holy Rosary Apartments Wins Landmark Society Award
Holy Rosary Apartments was awarded the prestigious Barber Conable Award from the Landmark Society on November 10, 2013 at Rochester’s City Hall. This award recognizes a large-scale rehabilitation of a historic building in the Rochester community, including buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places and projects utilizing the Federal Investment Tax Credit Program. […]