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AIA South Carolina: Winners of Design Awards 2025

by GroundBreak Carolinas Staff on

AIA South Carolina’s annual Design Awards recognize projects, architects and owners throughout the state who exemplify vision, creativity, and design innovation.

Congratulations to the 2025 AIA South Carolina Design Award recipients listed below:

Design Awards

Student Design

Gullah Geechee Cultural Incubator – Parker Trost and Thomas Meacham

Unbuilt

The Dream Center (Citation – Unbuilt) – Hanbury

Interior Architecture

Clemson University Brook T. Smith Launchpad (Citation – Interior Architecture) – Hanbury

Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse

  • Historic Taylor House (Merit – Historic Preservation) – BOUDREAUX
  • Judson Mill (Merit – Adaptive Reuse) – McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture

Robert Mills Residential Renovation

Midcentury Retreat (Citation – Robert Mills Residential Award) – Ario Studio

New Construction

  • National Park Service USVI Lind Point Resource Management and Science Facility and Housing (Merit –New Construction >5000 SF) – Liollio Architecture
  • Center for Knowledge Elementary School (Merit – New Construction >5000 SF) – Quackenbush Architects + Planners in association with Perkins + Will.
  • College of Charleston Simons Center for the Arts (Honor – New Construction >5000 SF) – Liollio Architecture in association with HGA.

Framework for Design Excellence Award

National Park Service USVI Lind Point Resource Management and Science Facility and Housing – Liollio Architecture

Chapter Awards

Social Justice Award – SCNOMA-SC Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects

Firm Award – Quackenbush Architects + Planners

Medal of Distinction – Adrienne Montare, FAIA and Thomas Savory, FAIA