S.F. low-income housing complex wins design awards "One of San Francisco's most exuberant recent buildings now is turning heads at a national scale.
The American Institute of Architects this month presented the Richardson Apartments at Fulton and Gough streets with two design awards - high praise indeed for 120 units of supportive housing for low-income residents.
The complex designed by David Baker + Partners for Mercy Housing and Community Housing Partnership received the Excellence in Affordable Housing Award presented by the association and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. It also was one of just two multifamily buildings taking bows at the association's 2012 Housing Awards."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/22/DDPV1OHP3N.DTL#ixzz1vihbhwQ2 L.A. At Home "The American Institute of Architects announced the winners of its 2012 national housing design awards, a list punctuated by a Hollywood Hills home dubbed the Nakahouse, pictured above, by XTen Architecture. Other winners include a wood and glass retreat in Carmel, an apartment complex for the formerly homeless in San Francisco and a steel and glass prefab in the Arizona desert. You can see them all in our 2012 AIA housing winners photo gallery."
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Ann Harris
The American Institute of Architects
Washington DC
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