News

07.01.25
CLT House featured in Residential Design
"Sited near a wetland with abundant flora and fauna, this weekend house has an unusual floor plan that absorbs the outdoors. Eager to experiment with sustainable building technologies, nARCHITECTS specified CLT for construction."

07.01.25
Upstate House: X Marks the Spot
“To maximize flexibility . . . the couple designed the interior around a bold, two-story central core, creating a “house-within-a-house” in a cross-shaped design. Playing with the cross pieces — the intersecting center, axes, and alternating extensions — they anchored and organized the interior spaces without sacrificing flow.”

07.01.25
Mimi Hoang at AIANY: Celebrating AANHPI Design and Leadership
On May 29, 2025, Mimi Hoang served as the keynote speaker of “A Legacy of Leadership and Resilience,” an event organized by AIANY Women in Architecture to celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. Her lecture, Civic Natures, is now available to view online.

06.20.25
Teatown Lake Reservation featured in AIA NY: In the News
With the project expected to break ground this fall, AIA NY featured Teatown Lake Reservation in their most recent newsletter. As part of the re-envisioning of the non-profit's campus, this project includes a new Education Center to provide additional teaching and educational spaces and create a new focal point within the 1,000-acre nature reserve.

06.12.25
The Architect's Newspaper: Two pavilions by nARCHITECTS promote climate resiliency in New York and New Jersey
"With an extensive portfolio including several waterfront resiliency projects, Brooklyn-based firm nARCHITECTS has left its mark in both states with the creation of two pavilions that build on community need while providing a framework for melding climate resilient infrastructure with urban public green space."

05.27.25
CLT House featured in Abitare's May Issue: Green
Weekend House - "A volume built of laminated timber with cedar siding and powered by a geothermal plant and photovoltaic panels. For their holiday home in the woods of Upstate New York the proprietors of nARCHITECTS have chosen to go green"
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Awards
nARCHITECTS was awarded the 2023 National Design Award in Architecture. Other National and international recognition includes the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Architecture Award, The AIA NYS Firm of the Year Award, an American Institute of Architects National Institute Honor Award, various AIA New York Design Honor and Merit Awards, a New York City Public Design Commission Award, The Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices, the Canadian Professional Rome Prize, Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. nARCHITECTS has been listed in the top 10 firms in architectural design in the United States by Architect Magazine since 2015. In 2012, World Architecture News named nARCHITECTS “part of a select group crowned to lead the next generation of designers in the 21st century.”
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2025AIA New York State Excelsior Award for a Private Sector Architect: Amanda Morgan
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Residential Design Architecture Award, Custom Rural or Vacation House, Citation Award: CLT House
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2024Architectural Review Houses Award Shortlist: CLT House
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Annual Awards for Excellence in Public Design: Orchard Beach Maintenance & Operations Building
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Architectural Record, Women in Architecture Award Honoree: Mimi Hoang
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Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards, Winner of Spaces and Places Category and Honoree for Design of the Year: Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center
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Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization, President's Award
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2023Cooper Hewitt, National Design Award in Architecture
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Architectural Record, Record House: House Between Forest + Field
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2021Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner, Architecture +Environment - NEW! Category: Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center
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AIA NYS Excelsior Honor Award, New Construction: Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center
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Woodworks U.S. Wood Design Awards, Wood in Government Buildings Award: Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center
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AIA NY Design Honor Award: Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center
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2020AN Best of Design Awards Honorable Mention, Cultural: Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center
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2019Architect Magazine The Top 50 US Architecture Firms in Design: nARCHITECTS - 9th in Design
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AN Best of Design Awards Honorable Mention, Urban Design: NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center
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2018Architect Magazine The Top 50 US Architecture Firms in Design: nARCHITECTS - 10th in Design
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AIANY Design Merit Award: Harper Street Yard
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2017AIA NYS Firm of the Year Award: nARCHITECTS
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Core 77 Design Awards Runner Up for Built Environment: A/D/O
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Municipal Arts Society of NYC MASterworks Award for Best Adaptive Reuse: A/D/O
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Architizer A+ Awards, Jury Award for Unbuilt Institutional Work: Shanghai Library East Hall
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AIA NY Design Merit Award: A/D/O
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AIA National Institute Honors Award: Carmel Place
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Architect Magazine The Top 50 US Architecture Firms in Design: nARCHITECTS - 12th in Design
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ULI NYC Excellence in Development Awards Finalist in Housing Development: Carmel Place
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2016Brick in Architecture Gold Award: Carmel Place
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Fast Company Innovation by Design Award for Spaces, Places, Cities: Carmel Place
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Architect Magazine The Top 50 US Architecture Firms in Design: nARCHITECTS - 9th in Design
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AIA NY Andrew J. Thomas Pioneer in Housing Award
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1st Prize, International Young Architects Design Competition: Shanghai East Library
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American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture: nARCHITECTS
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AIA NY Design Honor Award: Carmel Place
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2015Architect Magazine The Top 50 US Architecture Firms in Design: nARCHITECTS - 10th in Design
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Architizer A+ Award Special Mention: Joan Mitchell Foundation, NYC
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2014Architect Magazine The Top 50 US Architecture Firms in Design: nARCHITECTS - 7th in Design
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2013AIA NY Design Merit Award: Wyckoff House Museum
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Architizer A+ Awards Special Mention: My Micro NY
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1st Prize, adAPT NYC Competition: My Micro NY
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20121st Prize, Chicago Navy Pier Competition: nARCHITECTS with James Corner Field Operations
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World Architecture News 21for21: nARCHITCETS, 1 of 8 International Highly Commended Firms
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2011Architect Magazine Annual Design Review Honorable Mention: Forest Pavilion
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NYC Public Design Commission Award: Harper Street Yard
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2009AIA NY Merit Design Award for Building Type: Switch Building
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International Association of Art Critics (AICA/USA) National Gallery Award for Best Show in a Non-Profit Gallery or Space: Endless Table (Kiesler Exhibition)
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2007AIA NY Honor Design Award: Windshape
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Finalist, The Living Steel International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing
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2006The Architectural League of NY’s Emerging Voices
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The Architectural Review AR+D Award, Honorable Mention: Windshape
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2005AIA NY Honor Design Award: Canopy - MoMA / PS1
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The Canadian Professional Rome Prize: nARCHITECTS
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20041st Prize: MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
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Design Vanguard, Architectural Record Magazine
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20001st Prize: 1st Phase; Finalist, 2nd Phase: Hotel Pro Forma (with fieldOFFICE)