Modern high-rise apartment building with large windows and balconies, in a well-maintained urban area with trees, street lamps, pedestrians, and a parked car under a clear blue sky.

2025

2025 PCBC Gold Nugget Award

Merit Award, Mixed Use Community of the Year: The Martin

ENR Northern California’s 2025 Regional Best Projects

Best Residential/Hospitality: The Martin

Award of Merit - Cultural/Worship: Henry J Kaiser Center for the Arts

A large white building with an arched design and several windows, sitting in a nearly empty parking lot with marked spaces. The sky is partly cloudy and in the background, there is a cityscape with various buildings and a hilly landscape.

2024

Silicon Valley Structures Awards

Best Market-Rate Residential, Winner: The Martin

2023

Top 10 Urban Planning and Design Services Companies 2023, Real Estate Business Review

2022

First Prize: The Strategic Planning & Conceptual Urban Design of Wuxi Xiyan Lake Ecological Science and Technology City International Competition

2021

Silicon Valley Structures Awards

Office Research & Development Deal of the Year, Winner: 909 Kifer/Fortinet Headquarters

First Prize: Taihu Science City Strategic Planning + Conceptual Urban Design Project International Competition

Cityscape with modern skyscrapers near water at sunset, including tall glass buildings and a mountain range in the background.

2020

MasterPrize Awards

Mixed-Use Architecture: 181 Fremont

PCBC: Gold Nugget Award - Awards of Merit

Best Commercial Project 20,000 SF: Menlo Gateway

Best Mixed-Use Project High Rise: 181 Fremont

PCBC: Gold Nugget Award - Grand Prizes

Best Commercial Project 20,000 SF: 350 Bush

Best Rehabilitation Project: 350 Bush

USGLASS Green Design Awards

High-Rise Construction Award: 181 Fremont

Modern multi-story office building with glass exterior, illuminated interior, surrounded by trees, and adjacent to a highway with light trails from passing vehicles, during dusk.

The facade of the San Francisco Curb Exchange building, a historic structure with grand columns and intricate carvings, with cars parked and a person walking by on the street in front.

2019

San Francisco Chronicle Best Building of the Decade

The decade’s 12 best buildings in a changing San Francisco (sfchronicle.com): 181 Fremont

American Institute of Steel

Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel: 181 Fremont

CTBUH Awards of Excellence

Best Tall Building 200-299 meters (Award of Excellence): 181 Fremont

Structural Engineering Award Winner: 181 Fremont

MEP Engineering Award (Award of Excellence): 181 Fremont

Geotechnical Engineering Award Winner: 181 Fremont

Fire and Risk Engineering (Award of Excellence): 181 Fremont

Modern four-story building with glass doors and windows, surrounded by palm trees and leafless trees, under a partly cloudy evening sky.

2018

APA - National Planning Awards

Smart Growth Award: UC Merced Downtown Campus Center

Silicon Valley Structures Awards

Office Research & Development Deal of the Year, Winner: 181 Fremont

2017

International Property Awards

Americas Mixed-Use Architecture, California: 181 Fremont

2016

NAIOP Office Development of the Year

Winner: 181 Fremont

BICB Building Industry Conference Board

2016 Achievement of the Year: 350 Bush Street

Modern multi-story buildings with sleek glass and dark-colored exteriors in an urban area, with some construction visible in the background.

2015

China National Habitat Classic Architecture Award

Winner, Gold Award: Guangzhou International Fashion Center

Condé Nast Traveler

Gold List 2015: The Top Hotels in the World: 1 Hotel San Francisco (Formerly Hotel Vitale)

Exterior of a hotel with a brick facade, large windows, and a black luxury vehicle parked in front, adorned with potted plants and outdoor lanterns.

Two modern curved glass office buildings with trees and flags in front, under a blue sky.

2014

China National Quality Engineering Award

Engineering Award: China Automotive Technology Research Center

Aerial illustration of a futuristic cityscape with high-rise buildings, green parks, highways, waterways, and bridges.

2011

China National Excellent Urban and Rural Planning and Design

First Prize: Guangzhou South Axis

Guangdong Lingnan Characteristic Planning Award

Bronze Award: Guangzhou South Axis Plan

Sunset Magazine

Best Hotels in the West: 1 Hotel San Francisco (formerly Hotel Vitale)

Modern multi-story building with large windows on a tree-lined city street.

2009

Guangdong Planning Institute Award

Winner, First and Second Prize: Guangzhou North Axis Plan

Real Estate & Construction Review, Northwest Edition

Building of America Award: 733 Front Street

San Francisco Business Times Real Estate Deals of the Year

Best New Office Building: 555 Mission Street

China National Excellent Urban and Rural Planning and Design

Third Prize: Guangzhou North Axis

Two modern glass skyscrapers rise above a city street with cars and trees, under a partly cloudy sky.

2008

California Construction’s Best of 2008, Northern California

Best Residential: The Infinity

2007

CEFI Charles Pankow Award for Innovation

Finalist, Performance-based Seismic Design of High Rise Buildings: The Infinity

PCBC, Best In the West Gold Nugget Award

Merit Award, Best Office/Professional Building: 55 Second Street

2006

PCBC Best in the West Gold Nugget Award

Merit Award, Best Specialty Project: 1 Hotel San Francisco (formerly Hotel Vitale)

2005

PCBC Best in the West Gold Nugget Award

Merit Award, Best High-Rise Residential: The Metropolitan

2004

San Francisco Business Times Real Estate Deals of the Year

Best Market Rate Residential Deal of the Year: The Metropolitan

Best Hotel Deal of the Year: 1 Hotel San Francisco (formerly Hotel Vitale)

2003

PCBC Best in the West Gold Nugget Award

Merit Award, Best Apartment Project: Thunder Spring Resort

Merit Award, Best Apartment Project: Terraces at EmeryStation

Multi-story building with stone and wooden exterior, surrounded by trees and mountains under a partly cloudy sky.

2002

PCBC Best in the West Gold Nugget Award

Merit Award, Best Office/Professional Building: 275 Sacramento Street

Merit Award, Best Office/Professional Building: Emery Station North

2000

American Institute of Architects Western International Design Awards

Award of Honor in Architecture: San Francisco City Hall

American Institute of Architects California Council Design Awards

Merit Award, Excellence in Design: San Francisco City Hall

Metal Architecture Magazine 2000 Design Awards

Honorable Mention, Smooth Metal Wall Panels: 911 Emergency Communication Center

American Planning Association California Northern Section Awards

Planning Award: Pleasant Hill Downtown Master Plan

American Institute of Architects/San Francisco Examiner Magazine Best of the Bay Awards

Honor Award, Seismic Upgrade & Renovation: San Francisco City Hall

American Institute of Architects

Honor Award, Interior Architecture: San Francisco City Hall

The California State Capitol building in Sacramento, with a large central dome, surrounded by smaller structures, American flags, and pruned trees in the foreground.

1999

Society of American Registered Architects, California Council

Design Award: San Francisco City Hall

PCBC Best in the West Gold Nugget Award

Grand Award and Judges Special Merit Award: San Francisco City Hall

California Cities Helen Putnam Award for Excellence, Grand Prize

Land use and Environmental Quality: Hayward City Hall

1998

PCBC Best in the West Gold Nugget Award

Merit Award: Hayward City Hall

Modern multi-story building with large glass windows and a rounded entrance, surrounded by a paved plaza and small trees, under a blue sky with some clouds.

1997

American Society of Civil Engineers

Project of the Year Award, New Construction: Hayward City Hall

Daily Pacific Builder “Best of California”

Outstanding Renovation: The Beach Chalet

A large building with a two-story structure on top, featuring numerous windows, supported by white columns, with grassy foreground and blue sky.

1995

PCBC Best in the West Gold Nugget Award

Merit Award: Emeryville Amtrak Station

Amtrak train at Emeryville station with buildings and trees in the background, clear blue sky, and sunlight.

1994

San Francisco Architectural Heritage

Award for Excellence in Architectural Preservation: The Shell Building

Brunel Commendation Award

Outstanding Design Small Station, Newly Constructed: Emeryville Amtrak Station

1992

PCBC Best in the West Gold Nugget Award

Grand Award, Best Office/Professional Building of 100,000 SF or Less: St. Francis Medical Office Building

Merit Award: The Domizile

A multi-story brick building with distinctive glass bay windows on an urban street.

1990

American Institute of Architects National Design Awards

Citation for Excellence in Urban Design, Armenian Earthquake Task Force

PCBC Best in the West Gold Nugget Award

Merit Award: 55 Stockton Street

1989

Precast Concrete Institute Award:

55 Stockton Street

San Francisco Architectural Heritage

Award for Excellence in Architectural Conservation: The Bank of San Francisco

1985

PCBC Best in the West Gold Nugget Award

Merit Award, Best Rehabilitation: Van Ness Plaza

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