- Winner, international design competition, from 5,201 entries 2004
- AIA National American Architecture Award 2012
- AIA New York State Architecture Honor Award
- AIA New York, Best of the Best
- Architizer A+ Award, Popular Choice 2014
- SARA Design Award of Excellence
- Coverings Installation & Design Merit Award, Cultural 2013
- ENR Global Best Projects
- Award of Excellence, The Chicago Athenaeum
Design honors and awards.
Awards and honors earned by projects Element Designs helped realize, from the 9/11 Memorial to Bryant Park, credited to the architects, landscape architects, and institutions who led them. Element's part in each: the water.
45Honors earned by the studio's projects
15Awarded projects, from memorials to resorts
AffiliationsAIA · ASID · USGBC · APLD
National & International Awards.
- SARA Design Award of Honor 2016
- American Architecture Prize, Honorable Mention, Recreational Architecture 2016
- ASLA New York Merit Award 2020
- Green Good Design Sustainability Award, The Chicago Athenaeum 2023
- AIA New York Citation Award 2023
- MASterworks Award, Best Urban Landscape, Municipal Art Society 2023
- Finalist, Architizer A+Awards, Landscape & Planning 2024
- SARA National Design Award
- ASLA Landmark Award 2010
- Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence 1996
- AIA National Honor Award, Urban Design 1994
- AIA Award for Excellence in Urban Design 1993
- AIA Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture 2012
- AIA New York Interiors Honor Award 2011
- LEED Gold certified
- AIA New York Chapter Merit Award for Design Excellence 2015
- AIA National Honor Award 1990
- 25-Year Award, Texas Society of Architects 2011
- Landmark Award, Dallas Architecture Forum 2023
- USA Today 10Best, Best Sculpture Park in the US 2023–2025
- Pinnacle Award of Excellence, Natural Stone Institute, Commercial Exterior 2021
- International Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum 2021
- Engineering Excellence Award, National Recognition, ACEC 2019
- Winner, international design competition, Park & Public Space Master Plan 2007
- AIA New York Chapter Project Honors Award
- Recognized, Landezine International Landscape Award
- New York Design Awards, Silver, Interior Design, Corporate & Commercial 2023
- LIT Design Awards, Honorable Mention, Architectural Lighting Design
- Reconstruction Award, Silver Winner, Building Design + Construction 2012
- NAHB Best in American Living Award 2012
- Excellence in Hotel Development Award, Urban Land Institute New York 2017
- Global Award for Excellence, Urban Land Institute, one of 11 winners worldwide
- Excellence Award, Preservation League of New York State
- Greene Prize for Excellence in American Gardening, Garden Conservancy
- Five Star Award, Arabian Property Awards 2010
- CMAA Project of the Year, Honorable Mention, Metro NY/NJ Chapter
In distinguished company.
Commissions built alongside the architects, landscape architects, and institutions named above.
- 152 Elizabeth Street · New York, NYTadao Ando, Pritzker Prize laureate · Gabellini Sheppard
- 70 Vestry · New York, NYRobert A.M. Stern, AIA Topaz Medallion
- Princeton University water table · Princeton, NJMaya Lin, Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Lincoln Center & Frederik Meijer GardensTod Williams Billie Tsien, AIA Firm Award 2013
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