Recognizing buildings in Texas that exemplify the enduring value of good design.
Each year, the Texas Society of Architects 25-Year Award recognizes one building completed 25 to 50 years earlier that has stood the test of time by retaining its central form, character, and overall architectural integrity. This award is an important public outreach program that focuses much-deserved attention on distinguished Texas architecture of enduring significance and exemplifies the Society’s intrinsic message that “Good Design Matters.”
Designed by Gary Cunningham, FAIA, the Cistercian Abbey Church is located on an Irving prep school campus and celebrates a monastic order founded 900 years ago in Eastern Europe. The chapel’s design is an interpretation of a Romanesque church in the era of the founding of the order with the technical improvements of a modern era. Texas quarried limestone serves as the literal building blocks for the chapel with alternating bands of cream and multicolored stone for the exterior and interior finishes. A few vertical slits in the walls provide the limited amount of natural light to enter the interior. Horizontal glass tiles at the roofline change the quality of light as the sun follows its path during the day. The straightforward use of materials, devoid of unnecessary opulence, reflects the simplicity of the order, and the building is equally a work of Texas vernacular and handcrafted modernism.
2021
Carraro Residence, Kyle
Lake|Flato Architects
2020
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Edward Larrabee Barnes Associates with Pratt, Box & Henderson and Thomas & Booziotis
2019
Lucile Halsell Conservatory, San Antonio
Emilio Ambasz with Jones & Kell
2018
Pennzoil Place, Houston
Philip Johnson & John Burgee with S. I. Morris Associates
2017
Moore/Andersson Compound, Austin
Charles Moore, FAIA, and Arthur Andersson, FAIA
2016
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Austin
Skidmore Owings & Merrill with Brooks, Barr, Graeber & White
2015
Dallas City Hall, Dallas
I.M. Pei & Partners with Harper & Kemp
2014
The Alley Theatre, Houston
Ulrich Franzen & Associates with Mackie & Kamrath
2013
The Menil Collection, Houston
Renzo Piano, Hon. FAIA, with Richard Fitzgerald & Associates
2012
Temple Emanu-El, Dallas
Howard Meyer and Max Sandfield
2011
Fountain Place Dallas
I.M. Pei & Partners
2010
Tower of the Americas, San Antonio
Ford, Powell & Carson
2009
Margarite B. Parker Chapel at Trinity University, San Antonio
Ford, Powell & Carson
2008
Fort Worth Water Gardens, Fort Worth
Philip Johnson & John Burgee
2007
NorthPark Center, Dallas
Harrell and Hamilton Architects (now Omniplan)
1997
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
Louis I. Kahn
The Birthday, Sterling County
Frank Welch & Associates