Pound Ridge NY Home Wins AIA 2010 Design Award | Pound Ridge NY Real Estate
FOUR residences in Westchester County — two multifamily and two single-family homes — are among 13 winners of the 2010 Design Awards given every year for the past 20 by the 600-member Westchester-Hudson Valley chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The awards, conferred late last month at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, acknowledge “design excellence and the best architecture recently produced in the chapter area or by a chapter member,” said Raymond Beeler, a Pelham architect and a chairman of the awards committee. Thematically they seem to share a focus on the environment, and the safest, most practical ways to live within it. The four structures are: FLOOD HOUSE, MAMARONECK This 1,700-square-foot two-family house near Long Island Sound was built by Habitat for Humanity for a mother and daughter who lost their 1940s single-family cottage when the Mamaroneck River flooded in April 2007. Built on concrete piers, the new reside...