
AIA South Carolina: Winners of Design Awards 2025
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