Tradition Bank Plaza, the adaptive reuse of the former Plaza Hotel

Old Sixth Ward Neighborhood Association for its efforts in getting the Old Sixth Ward named the city's first protected historic district

Bartlett Lofts, the restoration of the Texas Staple Company warehouse

1701 Kipling Street, the restoration of a former Montrose-area duplex

Houston Mod for "Hugo V. Neuhaus, Residential Architecture, 1948-1966"

5306 Institute Lane, the restoration of a contemporary home in the Rice University area

13 Celsius, the restoration and adaptive reuse of the former Jennings Cleaning building in Midtown

West University Elementary School, the restoration and expansion of an historic school building

St. Anne Catholic Church for the restoration of its 1929 parish hall

1405 South Blvd., the restoration of a home in Broadacres

Alexander Love Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution: Stewart Title Award

Four Allen Center: AIA 25 Year Award

Ezekiel W. Cullen Building: AIA 50 Year Award
  

In 1926, the Plaza Apartment Hotel rose on mostly empty prairie near Houston’s new Museum of Fine Arts. Architect Joseph Finger designed the luxury high-rise in the Italian Renaissance style, and it became one of the city’s most valued addresses. By the 1980s, however, the Plaza’s glory days were behind it, and the building was left abandoned and deteriorating for two decades. The Plaza had become a fixture on Greater Houston Preservation Alliance’s endangered buildings list before David Greenberg purchased the property and retained Cisneros Design Studio to repair damaged architectural elements, remove graffiti and replace 1970s plate glass windows. Today, the Plaza’s entrance terrace once again welcomes visitors to this Houston landmark.

Next winner: Old Sixth Ward Neighborhood Association

Photo courtesy of Cisneros Design Studio
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