Today the New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects announced that ikon.5 architects is the winner of two 2019 AIA New Jersey Design Competition Awards.

ikon.5 was the only architecture firm to win awards in multiple awards for new construction projects in this year’s program. The firm’s Health and Wellness Center at Suffolk County Community College in Riverhead, New York, earned an Honor Award in the Built Commercial, Institutional, Educational or Multifamily Residential Design category and the firm’s Kate Tiedemann College of Business at the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg received a Merit Award winner for Built Commercial, Institutional, Educational or Multifamily Residential Design.

The Center for Health and Wellness is an academic and recreation facility that contains teaching spaces for the Department of Nursing and Physical Education, as well as, NCAA natatorium, gymnasium, aerobics room and rock-climbing wall and is modeled after abstract representations of the Eastern Long Island Pine Barrens. The Kate Tiedemann College of Business at the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg takes inspiration from its Tampa Bay setting and the indigenous coral stone and straddles the campus and city of St. Petersburg providing a new identity and welcoming image of the University to the city.

AIA New Jersey recognizes design excellence in the built environment across a wide range of projects, including single buildings, groupings of buildings, interior architecture, additions, restorations, and adaptive reuse projects. Award winners will be recognized at the AIA NJ Awards Dinner on January 11, 2020 at Felina’s in Ridgewood, New Jersey.