2024 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- Lala, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Honor Award of Excellence Interiors
The jury commented: “Elegant renovation. Beautiful material and color use to give definition to smaller spaces within the overall project. Lighting reinforces varied atmospheric conditions throughout; producing nuanced spatial experiences. The repeated canopy condition on the interior and exterior helps link these spaces together under a singular design gesture while maintaining varied experience. Well done.”
2024 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- Centro de Convenciones Catalino “Tite” Curet Alonso, Guayama, Puerto Rico
Honor Award for Unbuilt Design
The jury commented: “The design of this convention center in Guayama interprets a vast space for commerce and industry. The transformation of the building, destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017, is reimagined by incorporating the form of its original arches with a modern touch on both the exterior façade and the interior. The project features a well-executed double facade, reducing thermal load while creating a pedestrian arcade. The internal space is simple, maintaining harmony with the exterior.”
2024 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- FRSH STORE, Distrito T- Mobile, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Honorable Mention for Excellence of Built Work: Interior Architecture
The jury commented: “The designer created a varied spatial experience out of a standard retail space. This concept is challenging to execute well but details and materials seem effective and elegant. Project works with small space, yet design allows for discovery of unexpected spaces and embedded details as one moves through, which elevates the experience.”
2024 American Institute of Architects – Florida / Caribbean Region
- Lala, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Honor Award of Excellence Interiors
The jury commented: “Immaculately designed; particularly liked the hanging rods that speak the same language inside and outside.”
2023 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- One 08, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Honorable Mention Award for Sustainable Design
2023 American Institute of Architects – Florida / Caribbean Region
- Plaza de los Veteranos, Villaba, Puerto Rico
Citation Award for Unbuilt Design
2022 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- COE-Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia, Villaba, Puerto Rico
Honor Award for Un-Built Project
The jury commented: "For a project that is enormous in scale and incredibly complex in program, the design successfully breaks down the program in unique parts but has a special way of making the greater whole successful. The program suggests creating spaces that are almost “bunker like” yet the design gently carves out openings in the solid mass."
2022 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- Plaza de los Veteranos, Villalba, Puerto Rico
Honor Award for Un-Built Project
The jury commented: "This intelligent and thoughtful proposal imagines an alternativeto more traditional, figural memorials by offering a public space embedded in its community. Sustainable, beautiful, and welcoming, the building's simple and elegant form nestles within the site while simultaneously announcing its presents to visitors."
2020 American Institute of Architects – Florida / Caribbean Region
The jury commented: “Takes an archeological artifact and positions / validates it by building a new architecture and creates a ‘campus’ or open space. It is a restrained and elegant architecture, without being mimetic. The honest expression of structural elements establishes a dialogue with the original house.”
2016 X Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (BIAU) - Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España
The jury commented: “Modest, of good taste and elegant, this house adapts very well to its residential context and perfectly integrates into its surroundings. Great use of the exterior space fuses and becomes an extension of the interior space. It offers an elegant solution with its simple volumetric composition and profiles. The play of light in the white background is beautiful. The design takes advantage of cross ventilation and mitigates the sun with the design of simple movements. The diverse sustainability strategies for reduced energy consumption are commendable. Sustainability and design integrate with great success and with only one effort.”
Premio Obras Cemex - Puerto Rico
- RM House, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Winner in the Residential Category – Puerto Rico
2014 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- Industrial Campus, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Honor Award for Urban Planning
American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- RM House, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Honor Award for Built Project
2013 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- Altamira Music City
Certificate of Merit for Conceptual Project
The jury commented: “Altamira Music City shows the architect not only as a thoughtful designer, but as activist and full participant in the realization of commercial projects. In a difficult financial environment, sometimes it is necessary to assume new roles in the building process.”
2012 Premio Obras Cemex - Puerto Rico
- Coca Cola Puerto Rico Bottlers Office & amp; Warehouse (PR Coffee Roasters)
Honorable Mention - Institutional and Industrial Category
American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
The jury commented: “We found this house to be beautifully conceived and constructed. It is an example of a very clear plan configuration, organizing spaces relative to the views. The large openings and streamlined vocabulary produce a highly site specific international style.”
2011 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- CIVI.tecture: designing civic architecture by urban appropriations
Honorable Mention for Urban Planning
The jury commented: “As a project about urban activism it proved to be quite compelling. The project showed that architects can lead the call for civic engagement as well help create new forms of community. The ideas are replicable and transferable, making them relevant to different cities, towns and neighborhoods.”
American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
The jury commented: “A great use of a simple vernacular profile provides consistency through a fragmented plan while still allowing for the autonomy of various programs. The introduction of different fenestrations and skin treatments within the vernacular allows for specificity within the volumes. The rigor of the reiterations in the placement of the structures and the development of the various infrastructure systems are commendable.”
American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- Water Dune, Zaabeel Park, Dubai UAE
Honor Award for Conceptual Project
The jury commented: “Unlike many projects that may tackle these problems through a more pragmatic or engineered approach, this daring proposal calls for radical solution to the relevant issue of the reclamation of one of our most vital natural resources. This project engages this problem in an innovative way allowing for the expression of the process and its resultant interesting range of architectural effects.”
2008 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- Isabela Commercial Building, Isabela, Puerto Rico
Honorable Mention for Un-Built Project
The jury commented: “In appreciation of the façade development and its proper integration with the neighborhood fabric. In recognition of the project’s innovative value whose concept paves the way for new alternatives for parking garage architecture”
2008 American Institute of Architects –Puerto Rico Chapter
- Casa Solar, Solar Decathlon 2007, Washington DC
Honor Award (This award was given to the University of Puerto Rico students in Jorge F. Ramírez
Buxeda’s Design Studio)
The jury commented: “This Honor Award is given to the Casa Solar in recognition of the intensity of collaboration between professors and students apparent throughout the project as well as the consistent development of a clear approach towards sustainability ideas in architecture.”
2007 American Institute of Architects – Puerto Rico Chapter
- Museum Park – Condominium, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Honor Award for Un-Built Project
The jury commented: “The formal investigation of alternate arrangements of indoor and outdoor spaces within the structure and the elegant overall design of this condominium tower shows a fresh new direction for the city of San Juan, where too often commercial interests and lack of attention to design have recently resulted in less than inspiring additions to the city skyline.”
2006 American Institute of Architecture Students - National
Emerging Practice Award
The jury commented: “In recognition of its forward thinking which exemplifies the core values of the AIAS and helping to shape the future generation of the practice.”
American Institute of Architects –Puerto Rico Chapter
- Casa Solar – Estudio de Biomímica, Solar Decathlon 2007, Washington DC
Honorable Mention (This award was given to the University of Puerto Rico students in Jorge F.
Ramírez Buxeda’s Design Studio)
The jury commented: “For the search of a relation between nature and human interventions.”
2005 American Institute of Architects –Puerto Rico Chapter
The jury commented: “For a sensible addition to the industrial structure, utilizing the constructive language in a precise manner which envelops the new program intelligently.”
