We are very proud to announce that Architecture of Normal (Birkhäuser, 2022) took the honors the other night at the 2022 GRAY Awards in the Product Design category. We had a great time accepting the award and celebrating our fellow winners at the epic GRAY Gala at Seattle’s Fairmont Olympic Hotel
The GRAY Award is a prestigious design accolade, awarded to designers in the categories of Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, and Product Design and determined by an international judging panel of design icons. This year's panel included Ini Archibong, Paul Cocksedge, Paolo Ferrari, Holly Hunt, Patrick Lam, and Mia Lehrer.
BIG NEWS! W/K partner Daniel Kaven’s book Architecture of Normal is a finalist for a 2022 GRAY Award in the Product Design category.
Now in its 6th year, GRAY Awards — a cross-disciplinary design awards program — recognizes the incredible work happening around the world.
Winners will be announced on December 5, 2022.
Read MoreWe're proud to announce that our Heartwood residence has received a 2022 International Architecture Award Honorable Mention in the Private Homes category from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The awards will be presented at a gala in Athens next week.
Read MoreWe’re excited to announce that both our Skyview Residence and our Royal Residence have been nominated for ArchDaily's 2022 Building of the Year Award in the Houses Category.
The Building of the Year Award is a peer-based, crowdsourced architecture award showcasing projects chosen by the general public. Over a two-week period, readers filter nominated projects down to the 15 best works featured on ArchDaily in 2021.
The more nominations we receive from the general public from now through February 9th, the better our chances of being shortlisted for the final vote. Help us move the needle on Skyview and Royal!
Thanks for all of your support.
Read More“The brilliant balance of wood and stone and closeness to the water gives this project a specific type of spirit, embodied by the name Heartwood.”
— 2021 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards Jury
Read MoreThe 2021 Architecture MasterPrize jury has recognized our Skyview residence with an Honorable Mention in the category of Residential Design.
Read MoreWe're excited to announce that our Royal residence has been honored with a 2021 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Read MoreWe’re thrilled to announce that our Royal project has been honored with a 2020 Architecture MasterPrize. The prestigious award, which in 2019 was presented at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, will be presented to this year’s winners at a gala event in 2021.
Read MoreW/K’s recently completed headquarters in Portland win an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Oregon Citation Award.
Read MoreCamp MINOH (Charlevoix, MI) is recognized with an AIA Michigan Honor Award.
Read MoreWilliam / Kaven Architecture’s Camp MINOH Project in Charlevoix, Michigan, was recognized by AIA Michigan with an Honor Award. The 2019 jury, chaired by Matthew Kreilich of Snow Kreilich Architects, said of the project: “The restrained material palette, exposed structure and sense of craft in this home creates wonderful spaces to live while the sensitivity to massing and siting create a powerful connection to the beautiful site.”
Read MoreWilliam Kaven Architecture has been chosen as one of the 2018 GRAY Awards finalists for our Broadway Corridor Master Plan! The final winner in each category will be announced at the awards party on November 29th at The Sanctuary Seattle. Stay tuned!
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