NSI Presents Tucker Design Awards 2024

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OBERLIN, Ohio – The Natural Stone Institute (NSI) presented its 2024 Tucker Design Awards to eight projects and their design teams late last month.

The 2024 Bybee Prize recipient, architect Lee Becker, also received honors during the event on Aug. 26 in Salt Lake City during the NSI Study Tour.

The biennial Tucker Design Awards competition, dating back to 1977, honors members of the design community who exhibit innovation and excellence in the use of natural stone.

This year’s Tucker Design Award recipients are:

Pelli Clarke & Partners for 2100 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.;

Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects for Bank OZK Headquarters located in Little Rock, Ark.;

Wheeler Kearns Architects for Meadow Lane Retreat, Lakeside, Mich.

Bates Masi + Architects for Signal Hill in Montauk, N.Y.;

Santiago Calatrava Architects & Engineers in collaboration with Koutsomitis Architects for Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church & National Shrine, New York, and;

Waterstreet Studio for Urban Hearth at a private residence in Richmond, Va.

Additionally, John Milner Architects received two awardsfor at the Cotswold-inspired Residence in Strafford, Pa. and for Krisheim in Philadelphia.

The Bybee Prize, named in honor of the late James Daniel Bybee, is awarded to an individual architect or landscape architect for a body of work executed over time and distinguished by outstanding design and use of natural stone.

This year’s Bybee Prize recipient is Lee Becker, a partner at Hartman-Cox Architects of Washington. He’s responsible is responsible for designing and managing a broad range of project types that include award winning institutional, ecclesiastical, commercial office and mixed use, academic, and residential buildings nationwide.

Among his projects are the Duke University Divinity School Addition in Durham, N.C; the Robert B. Aikens Commons Addition at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.; and the John A. Campbell Courthouse in Mobile, Ala.

Judges for the design awards were Mike Albert of Design Workshop; Billie Tsien of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners; and Vince Marazita of Stone Trends International. Photos and descriptions of the winning projects are at www.naturalstoneinstitute.org/tuckerawards