Billy Hustace Photography
Designed in 1931 for Henry Ford by Albert Kahn, the 525,000-square-foot Ford Assembly Building on the San Francisco Bay waterfront sat fallow for many years. The restoration and preservation of this crumbling but historic structure transformed the space into a mixed-use, multitenant facility that now accommodates industrial, office, and retail spaces.
Jury: “This renovated facility has improved the region by saving an older building and its embodied energy.”
Client: “The design is elegant. It derives important lessons from the original architect, Albert Kahn, while at the same time refreshing and modernizing that design. And we were able to build it out at a fraction of the cost of a new structure. The building became immediately 100 percent leased and the tenants love their spaces.” —Eddie Orton, Orton Development
2011 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture
Jury
David Miller, FAIA, (chair) The Miller Hull Partnership
Ashley Clark, Assoc. AIA, LandDesign
Curtis Fentress, FAIA, Fentress Architects
T. Gunny Harboe, FAIA, Harboe Architect
David Neuman, FAIA, University of Virginia
Louis Pounders, FAIA, ANF Architects
Sarah Snodgrass, AIAS Representative, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Allison Williams, FAIA, Perkins+Will
Jennifer Yoos, AIA, VJAA
Ford Assembly Building, Richmond, Calif.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C.
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mich.
New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece
One Jackson Square, New York
Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas
Rooftop Garden, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Horizontal Skyscraper Vanke Center, Shenzhen, China
Diana Center, Barnard College, New York
U.S. Land Port of Entry, Warroad, Minn.