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AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Over more than two decades of practice, our work and our people have been recognized by the institutions that champion traditional architecture and the New Urbanism. A selection follows.

The Firm

Congress for the New Urbanism, Mid-Atlantic Chapter — Baltimore Single-Stair Competition, 2nd Place (2025)

Urban Guild Award of Excellence (2019) — the Cottage Court at the Cavalier Residences

Home-a-Rama at East Beach, Norfolk — Critics' Choice Gold Award, Best Floor Plan under 3,200 sq ft (2012)

Luana Gardens International Competition, Jamaican Housing Authority — 1st Place, in partnership with Kingston 10 Architects & Micheal Watkins Architects

Dry Valley International Competition, National Housing Trust of Jamaica — 2nd Place, in partnership with Kingston 10 Architects & Micheal Watkins Architects

Jeremy Sommer, Principal

University of Miami Centennial Alumni Medal (2025)

Urban Guild Barranco Award (2024)

Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Award — Block, Street & Building, Palmetto Bluff, with Historical Concepts

ICAA Shutze Award — Chapel at Palmetto Bluff (2007), with Historical Concepts

ICAA Shutze Award — Emerging Classicist, Student Work (2009)

University of Miami Alpha Rho Chi Service Medal

Published Work

Classicist No. 18, The Mid-Atlantic — Cottage Court at the Cavalier Residences and Village Houses at the Cavalier Residences, Virginia Beach (The Professional Portfolio, pp. 76–77)

Classicist No. 17, Florida — Residential Block, Alys Beach (p. 77)

Classicist No. 13, The American South — East Beach Residences, Norfolk (p. 76)

Classicist No. 8 — Student Work

Coming Home: The Southern Vernacular House by James Strickland — Waterscape, Spring Island, South Carolina (p. 118)

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