For 55 years, the Gold Nugget Awards have raised the bar for innovative architecture, planning, and construction concepts that solve fundamental building industry needs through good design.
The program recently announced its 2018 honorees at an awards ceremony and gala at San Francisco's Moscone Center during PCBC, the Pacific Coast's regional conference and trade show for real estate development.
From a field of over 700 U.S. and international entries, judges selected merit winners and one grand winner in 50 categories, including multifamily, single-family, custom homes, commercial, office space, renovated projects, mixed-use, affordable, and site planning. The judges praised creative approaches to classic concepts and the depth of detail executed in the winning entries.
Below is a collection of the winning projects in the awards program's multifamily categories.
Multifamily Community of the Year: The Pacific, San Francisco;
Developer: Trumark Urban; Architect: Handel Architects
Best Multifamily Housing Community, under 15 du/acre: Mountain Shadows—Villas, Paradise Valley, Ariz.;
Builder/Developer: The New Home Co.; Architect: JZMK Partners
Best Multifamily Housing Community, 15 to 30 du/acre: Cobalt at Esencia, Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif.; Developer: Rancho Mission Viejo; Builder: The New Home Co.; Architect: Bassenian Lagoni
Best Multifamily Housing Community, 30 to 60 du/acre: The Earnest, San Diego; Developer/Builder/Architect: Foundation for Form Architecture & Development
Best Multifamily Housing Community, 60 to 100 du/acre: Mr. Robinson, San Diego; Developer/Architect: Jonathan Segal
Best Student or Faculty Housing: Tooker House, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.; Developer: American Campus Communities; Architect: Jim Curtin, Solomon Cordwell Buenz
Best Innovative Energy Design: Cove Apartments, Seattle;
Developer: Vibrant Cities; Architect: Tiscareno Associates
Best on the Boards Multifamily Community: Reforma Tower, Mexico City, Mexico; Architect: Humphreys & Partners Architects
Best Mixed-Use Project: The Camden, Hollywood, Calif.; Developer: Camden Development; Architect: TCA Architects
Best on the Boards Mixed-Use Project: One Paseo, San Diego; Developer: Kilroy Reality; Architects: TCA Architects and Gensler
Best Multifamily Housing Community, 100 du/acre or more: Waiea at Ward Village, Honolulu; Builder/Developer: Howard Hughes Corp.; Architect: James K. M. Cheng/WCIT Architecture
This year's Gold Nugget jury was made up of some of the industry's top designers, planners, and builders: Cindy Harvey, principal at RNL in Denver; Pierrette Tierney-Magleby, vice president of business development at Magleby Construction in Park City, Utah; Phil Hove, principal at HOVE Design Alliance in Laguna Beach, Calif.; Eric C. Brown, principal at Artisan Homes Realty in Scottsdale, Ariz.; Greg G. Bucilla, president of Bucilla Group Architecture in Irvine, Calif.; and Leah Demirjian, senior associate editor of design, Builder magazine.
View the full list of winners across all the categories here.