Designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects and EskewDumezRipple with Andropogon Associates, the project is the first in the U.S. to be awarded the prestigious honor since SANAA’s Grace Farms in 2016.
Project architects José Fernando Gómez and Juan Carlos Bamba joined fellow prize finalists at the inaugural Conference on Critical Practice at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Four projects in four countries—Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru—are in the running for the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology–organized prize that recognizes emerging practices.
Two separate honors bestowed by the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology will recognize built works in North, South, and Central America completed in 2022–2023.
The winner in the fourth cycle of the Chicago-based awards program triumphed over finalist projects located in Houston, Medellín, Vancouver, and beyond.
Recognizing the best built work in the Americas completed between December 2018 and June 2021, the prize spotlights six projects including a Mexico City museum expansion and an earthen housing block in Paraguay.
The prestigious biennial prize was awarded to Loreta Castro Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi of the Mexico City-based architecture firm Taller Capital for a dam renovation in Nogales, Mexico.
