A rendering of the renovated Hotel Petersburg, which was among this year’s Golden Hammer award winners. (File image courtesy Retro Hospitality)
A restored hotel in Petersburg and a rehabbed train depot-turned-storefront in Manchester were among the top honorees at this year’s Golden Hammer awards, while an office space at Sauer Center won the top award in a statewide interior design competition.
The annual Golden Hammer awards, honoring standout real estate projects in the region, were presented Wednesday night by nonprofits Historic Richmond and Storefront for Community Design. A total of 13 awards were presented from among 34 nominees in a ceremony held at Hardywood Richmond.
Best Restoration went to Hotel Petersburg, developer Nat Cuthbert’s revival of the century-old, seven-story hotel building at 20 W. Tabb St. in the heart of Old Towne Petersburg. The $14 million project involved architect The Yellow Room, engineer Covington Design Group, contractor Loughridge & Co. and hotel management company Retro Hospitality, among others.
The Txtur store inside the rehabbed Seaboard Air Line Railroad Depot building. (BizSense file photo)
Best Adaptive Reuse/Rehabilitation went to developers Doug Albertson and Palmer Wilkins’ rehab of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Depot at 604 Hull St. Now a store and café for furniture brand Txtur, the building was renovated using historic preservation tax credits and cost more than $1 million.
Albertson and Wilkins worked on the project with architects Michael Pellis and Ratio; engineers Bohannon Engineering, MJ Davidson Consulting and Parker Design Group; contractor J.A. Heisler Contracting Co.; and tax credit consultants Bryan Clark Green, Commonwealth Preservation Group and Sadler & Whitehead. Txtur handled the interior design.
The recently completed Highland Terrace Apartments on Brookland Park Boulevard. (BizSense file photo)
Best New Construction went to Highland Terrace Apartments, Enterprise Community Development’s 66-unit apartment building at 1224 E. Brookland Park Blvd. The $22 million project involved architect Torti Gallas + Partners; landscape architect Cite Design; engineers RK&K, Lynch Mykins Structural Engineers and PACE Collaborative; and contractor UrbanCore Construction.
Best Residential—Small Scale went to another Six Points-area project: a mixed-use rehab of a dilapidated building at 3006 First Ave. Team members included developer and contractor Mitchell Danese and windows and carpentry installer Karnage Construction, whose owner, Mo Karnage, opened a coffeeshop and bookstore in the commercial space below an upstairs dwelling.
The project at 3006 First Ave. near Six Points. (Image courtesy Historic Richmond)
Also on the 3006 First Ave. project were engineer Obsidian, Tucker’s Plumbing and Anderson Air Conditioning & Heating. Tredegar Construction handled rough framing, roofing and structural repairs.
Best Placemaking and Urban Design went to the James River Association’s James A. Buzzard River Education Center at 2025 Dock St. Team members included architect 3North, engineers Timmons Group and Froehling & Robertson, and contractor Kjellstrom + Lee.
Best Placemaking—Arts + Culture went to The Valentine Museum’s Valentine Studio, a reinterpretation of inaugural museum president Edward Valentine’s artist studio. The museum worked with architects Glavé & Holmes and Studio Joseph, engineer Salas O’Brien, contractor Kjellstrom + Lee and tax credit consultant Sadler & Whitehead, among others.
The Enterprise Community Development team receives their award for Highland Terrace Apartments during Wednesday’s Golden Hammers ceremony. (Jonathan Spiers photo)
Other awards presented:
- – Helping Hands Upward Mobility Award: Advanced Career Education Center Highland Springs (renovation), 100 Tech Drive, developer Henrico County Public Schools;
- – Community Collaboration for Impact Award: Cool Lane Commons (assisted living facility conversion), 1900 Cool Lane, developer Virginia Supportive Housing;
- – Downtown Dynamism Award: Mutual on Main (apartment conversion), 909 E. Main St., developer Landmark Property Services;
- – Inclusive Vision Award: Faison Center master plan, 5311 Markel Road, developer The Faison Center;
- – Placemaking X Preservation Award: 120 Liberty St., Petersburg (house restoration), developer Project:Homes;
- – Richmond Grande Dame Restoration Award: The Taylor House, 2325 Monument Ave. (house restoration), developer Hadleigh Hall LLC;
- – Teens’ Choice Award: Taylor Farm Park, 200 Whiteside Road, developer Henrico County Recreation and Parks Department;
- – Special Commendation for Stewardship of a National Historic Landmark: Monumental Church, 1224 E. Broad St., owner Historic Richmond.
More on the Golden Hammer winners and nominees can be found here.
Judging the awards were Kim Chen with the City of Richmond, Historic Richmond Executive Director Cyane Crump, Storefront for Community Design’s Stephanie Golembeski, Better Housing Coalition CEO Greta Harris, Modern Richmond co-founder Andrea Levine, Baskervill Chairman Burt Pinnock, Community Foundation for a greater Richmond’s Audrey Trussell, Richmond Memorial Health Foundation’s Albert Walker III, and VCUarts’ Camden Whitehead.
Great Minds HQ tops interior design awards
Fultz & Singh won top interior design honors for its Great Minds headquarters design. (Image courtesy ASID VA)
Last month, the Virginia chapters of the American Society of Interior Design and the International Interior Design Association held their annual Interior Design Excellence Awards. Several Richmond-area firms received awards in the competition, which was judged by a group of industry professionals from California, Florida, Nebraska, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
Fultz & Singh Architects was the big winner in the awards, picking up the top Brightest Idea award and placing first place in the Corporate Under 35,000 Square Feet category for its design of the Great Minds headquarters at Sauer Center.
Baskervill’s designs for Genworth’s office renovation. (Image courtesy Historic Richmond)
Baskervill won first place in the Corporate Over 35,000 Square Feet category for its designs for a renovation of the Genworth office building at 11011 W. Broad St. The renovation was also a finalist in the Golden Hammer awards’ Best Adaptive Reuse/Rehabilitation category.
510 Architects received an honorable mention in the Corporate Under 35,000 Square Foot category for an office design for Capital Square, and in the Hospitality category for the Acacia Mid-Town restaurant at Libbie Mill. Baskervill received a hospitality honorable mention for the Moxy Virginia Beach Oceanfront hotel in Virginia Beach.
Campfire & Co. designed the Acacia Mid-Town restaurant at Libbie Mill. (Image courtesy ASID VA)
First place in hospitality went to Campfire & Co. for And Dim Sum, RVA Hospitality’s restaurant in the former Max’s on Broad space in Jackson Ward.
Additional honorable mentions in the category went to Fultz & Singh Architects for Hatch Local Food Hall and to Glavé & Holmes Architecture for The Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
SMBW received an honorable mention in the Healthcare Under 15,000 Square Foot category for the Ronald McDonald House Charities facility at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU.
Moseley Architects won first place awards in both the Education K-12 and Higher Education categories for Innovation Elementary School in Manassas and Virginia Tech’s Data & Decision Sciences Building, respectively. SMBW received an honorable mention in higher ed for the University of Richmond’s Passport Café.
First place for historic preservation went to Glavé & Holmes for The Liberty Trust hotel in Roanoke. Quinn Evans won first place in the government category for the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Old City Hall restoration. KSA Interiors received a government honorable mention for U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
First place for retail went to Campfire & Co. for a Gelati Celesti store in Virginia Beach. An honorable mention in the category went to 510 Architects for Ironwood Automotive’s new location.
Ironwood Automotive’s new location. (Image courtesy ASID VA)
Nicole Rutledge Design won first place and an honorable mention in the Residential Under 3,500 Square Foot category for a home renovation and new-construction home in Richmond. Two first-place awards were presented in the Residential Over 3,500 Square Foot category, one to Visible Proof and the other to JTW Design for home designs in Richmond.
Visible Proof also received an honorable mention in the Singular Space category, while first place in that category went to JTW for a home renovation in Richmond. Circle Design Studio won first place in the model home category for a house featured in the annual Homearama showcase.
Honorable mentions in the multifamily category went to ENV for 3500 West View, a 282-unit apartment complex in Short Pump, and to Walter Parks Architects for The Hydro apartment building in Manchester. ENV also received an honorable mention in the custom category for Henrico CASA’s Home for Good Custom Playhouse.
More on the Interior Design Excellence Awards and winners can be found here.