2018 Gold Nugget Award Winners Announced

For 55 years, the Gold Nugget Awards have raised the bar for innovative architecture, planning, and construction concepts that solve fundamental building industry needs through good design. Last night, the program announced its 2018 honorees at an awards ceremony and gala at San Francisco’s Moscone Center during PCBC, the Pacific Coast’s regional conference and trade show for real estate development.

From a field of over 700 U.S. and international entries, judges selected Merit winners and one Grand winner in 50 categories, including single-family production, custom homes, commercial, office space, renovated projects, mixed-use, affordable, multi-family projects, and site planning. The judges praised creative approaches to classic concepts and the depth of detail executed in the winning projects.

This year’s Gold Nugget jury was made up of the industry’s top designers, planners, and builders: Cindy Harvey, principal at RNL in Denver; Pierrette Tierney-Magleby, vice president of business development at Magleby Construction in Park City, Utah; Phil Hove, principal at HOVE Design Alliance in Laguna Beach, Calif; Eric C. Brown, principal at Artisan Homes Realty in Scottsdale, Ariz., Greg G. Bucilla, president at Bucilla Group Architecture in Irvine, Calif., and Builder’s senior associate editor of design, Leah Demirjian.

In the residential design categories, “Best Indoor-Outdoor Lifestyle” was a new addition this year—created in response to the trend of minimizing the distinction between the indoors and out across projects of all budgets and scales. Judges were also drawn to projects that solved challenges, such as those that devised creative solutions for projects in tight lots, and plans that established a sense of community.

“The Gold Nugget Award winners reflect our industry’s best, brightest, and most innovative architects, planners and builder/developers,” says judging chairman and Gold Nugget ceremonies administrator Lisa Parrish. “We applaud them all, and were thrilled to recognize them with a celebration of merit and grand award winners.”

View the full list of winners across all the categories here.

Below are the homes and communities of the year, and a selection of
Grand winners in residential design:

Home of the Year— White Horse – Plan 9502 Cheval, Scottsdale, Arizona
Builder: Camelot Homes; Architect: Bob White, Forest Studio

Residential Detached Collection of the Year— Coral Canyon, Newport, Calif.
Builder: The New Home Company; Architect: EBTA Architects and Forest Studio

Masterplan Communities of the Year I—Ward Village, Honolulu
Developer: Howard Hughes Corp.; Planner: SWA Group

Masterplan Communities of the Year II—Esencia, Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif.
Developer: Rancho Mission Viejo; Planner: SWA Group; Architect: Robert Hidey Architects

Judge’s Special Award of Excellence—Flora Farms, Las Animas, Baja B.C.S
Builder: The Verano Group; Architect: Dorman Associates, Inc.

Multifamily Community of the Year—The Pacific, San Francisco
Developer: Trumark Urban; Architect: Handel Architects

Unique Residential Detached Housing— VITAE, Costa Mesa, Calif.
Builder: Planet Home Living; Architect: KTGY Architecture+Planning

Custom Home Under 4,000 Sq. Ft.— Hood River Residence, Hood River, Ore.
Builder: Hammer and Hand; Architect: Scott|Edwards Architecture

Custom Home 4,000 Sq. Ft. to 8,000 Sq. Ft.— Piebald Ranch, George West Texas
Builder: Johnny Canavan Custom Homes; Architect: Craig McMahon Architects

Custom Home Over 8,000 Sq. Ft.—Willamette Valley Residence, Sheridan, Ore.
Builder: Hammer & Hand; Architect: Rockefeller Kempel Architects

Single Family Detached Home, 1,500 to 2,499 Sq. Ft.— Julep at Parasol Park Plan 2X, Irvine, Calif.
Builder: Shea Homes; Architect: SDK Atelier

Single Family Detached Home, 2,500 to 2,999 Sq. Ft.— Prato at Residence 2, Castle Pines, Colo.
Builder: Infinity Home Collection; Architect: Woodley Architectural Group

Single Family Detached Home, 3,000 to 3,499 Sq. Ft.—Residences at Mountain Shadows, Home 8, Paradise Valley, Ariz.
Builder: The New Home Company; Architect: JZMK Partners

Single Family Detached Home, 3,500 to 4,500 Sq. Ft.—White Horse Plan 9502 Cheval, Scottsdale, Arizona
Builder: Camelot Homes; Architect: Bob White, Forest Studio

Single Family Detached Home, Over 4,500 Sq. Ft.—Coral Canyon- Residence 2B, Crystal Cove, Calif.
Builder: The New Home Company; Architect: EBTA Architects and Forest Studio

Indoor Outdoor Lifestyle for a Home— Dancing Light, Paradise Valley, Ariz.
Builder: Desert Star Construction; Architect: Kendle Design Collaborative

View the full list of winners across all the categories here.