Gold Nugget Awards: Residential Grand Award Winners Not Shown

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By Carolyn Weber. Best Custom Home–Under 3,500 square feet: Scaffide Residence, Newport Beach, Calif. Builder: Security Builders, Murrieta, Calif.; Architect: South Coast Architects, Newport Beach

Best Custom Home–3,500 to 6,000 square feet: Private Residence, Los Angeles Builder: Minardos Construction Associates, Santa Monica, Calif.; Architect/Land planner: Johnson Fain Partners, Los Angeles

Best Custom Home–Over 6,000 square feet: Saltzman Residence, Scottsdale, Ariz. Builder: Linthicum Custom Builders, Scottsdale; Architect: H and S International, Scottsdale

Best Affordable Housing–Attached: Main Street Park Apartments–Phase II, Half Moon Bay, Calif. Builder: Trident Construction, Foster City, Calif.; Developer: Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition, Redwood City, Calif.; Architect: Berger Detmer Architects, San Francisco

Best Affordable Housing–Detached: Belle Creek, Commerce City, Colo. Builder: New Town Builders, Highlands Ranch, Colo.; Developer: Landcraft Communities, Highlands Ranch; Architect/Land planner: Arlo Braun and Associates, Denver

Best Single-Family Detached Home–1,700 square feet and over (Compact Lot): Arden Square–Plan 4, Irvine, Calif. Builder/Developer: Brookfield Homes, Costa Mesa, Calif.; Architect: Bassenian/Lagoni Architects, Newport Beach, Calif.; Land planner: Zeiser King Consultants, Santa Ana, Calif.

Best Single-Family Detached–Under 1,800 square feet (Small Lot): Nava ‘Ade–the Dream Catcher, Santa Fe, N.M. Builder/Architect/Land planner: ASW Realty Partners, Santa Fe

Best Single-Family Detached Home–Under 2,200 square feet: Casitas Santaluz–the Lumina, Santaluz, Calif. Builder: Taylor Woodrow Homes, Irvine, Calif.; Developer: Santaluz LLC, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.; Architect: Robert Hidey Architects, Irvine; Land planner: SWA Planning and Landscape Architect, Laguna Beach, Calif.

Best Single-Family Detached Home–2,601 to 3,000 square feet: Sentinels–Plan 3, San Diego Builder: Baywood Development, Newport Beach, Calif.; Architect: Scheurer Architects, Newport Beach; Land planner: SWA Planning and Architect, Laguna Beach, Calif.

Best Single-Family Detached Home–3,001 to 3,300 square feet: Villas at The Bridges–Plan 1, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Builder/Developer: HCC Investors/Lennar Communities, Mission Viejo, Calif.; Architect: Bassenian/Lagoni Architects, Newport Beach, Calif.

Best Single-Family Detached Home–3,301 to 3,600 square feet: Cassis–Plan 1, Newport Coast, Calif. Builder/Developer: Brookfield Homes, Costa Mesa, Calif.; Architect: Scheurer Architects, Newport Beach, Calif.; Land planner: TRG Land, Newport Beach

Best Single-Family Detached Home–3,601 to 4,000 square feet: Firenze–Trovere with Casita, Scottsdale, Ariz. Builder: Mark Hancock Development, Scottsdale; Architect: Robert Hidey Architects, Irvine, Calif.

Best Single-Family Detached Home–4,501 to 5,000 square feet: The Villas at Shady Canyon–The Pacifico, Irvine, Calif. Builder: Taylor Woodrow Homes, Irvine; Developer: The Irvine Co., Newport Beach, Calif.; ARCHITECT/ Land planner: Robert Hidey Architects, Irvine

Best Attached Project–Under 12 du/acre: The State, San Diego Builder/Architect: Jonathan Segal, San Diego

Best Attached Project–12 to 18 du/acre: Sailhouse, Corona Del Mar, Calif. Builder/Developer: John Laing Homes, Newport Beach, Calif.; Architect/Land planner: Scheurer Architects, Newport Beach

Best Attached Project–19 to 30 du/acre: Durant Village, Oakland, Calif. Builder/Developer: Signature Properties, Pleasanton, Calif.; Architect/Land planner: McLarand Vasquez Emsiek and Partners, Irvine, Calif.

Residential Project of The Year–Attached: The Coconut Plantation at Ko Olina, Oahu, Hawaii Builder/Developer: Brookfield Homes, Costa Mesa, Calif.; Architect/Land planner: Scheurer Architects, Newport Beach, Calif.

Best Apartment Project–Five Stories or More: The Essex on Lake Merritt, Oakland, Calif. Builder: Swinerton Builders, San Francisco; Developer: Essex Property Trust, Palo Alto, Calif.; Architect: Architecture International, Mill Valley, Calif.

Sustainable–Residential Community: Villas at Civano, Tucson, Ariz. Builder: T.J. Bednar, Tucson; Developer: Community of Civano, Tucson; Architect: Moule/Polyzoides, Pasadena, Calif.

Photo: Jeffrey Aron

Judges 2002: (from l to r) Jeff Slavin, Cinnamon Forest, Irvine, Calif.; Bill Kreager, Mithun, Seattle; Jill Shannon, Parker Development, El Dorado Hills, Calif.; Rob Steinberg, The Steinberg Group, San Jose, Calif.; Peter Mayer, Peter M. Mayer Productions, Alta Loma, Calif.; Bill Watson, Tesoro Homes, Centennial, Colo.; Jill Williams, KTGY Group, Irvine; Carolyn Weber, BUILDER Magazine, Washington; Michael Woodley, Woodley Architectural Group, Costa Mesa, Calif.; Lisa Parrish, Peter M. Mayer Productions, Alta Loma; Peter Templeton, Templeton Planning Group, Newport Beach, Calif.

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