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Awards & Recognition

Apeiro Design

Awards and Recognition

Featured Award

PENN 2

Apeiro Design’s contribution to the award-winning PENN 2 redevelopment centers on the 4,000 SF Town Hall—a flexible, multi-use auditorium suspended above the 33rd Street plaza. Designed to seamlessly transition between keynote talks, banquets, conferences and casual gatherings, the space features an adaptable seating system and also functions as a social stair.

View Project

2025

Wide view of the inclusive and light-filled Board Chambers, the architectural centerpiece of San Mateo County’s net-zero-energy government building.
500 County Center

Redwood City, California

  • 2025, AIA California, Design Awards
  • 2025, AIA San Francisco, Design Awards
  • 2025, Structural Engineers Association of Northern California, Structural Engineering Excellence (SEE) Award
  • 2025, Sustainable San Mateo County, Green Building Award
  • 2024, Engineering News-Record, Best of the Best Projects
  • 2024, Engineering News-Record, Regional Best Projects – California
  • 2024, SILICON VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL, Structures Awards
The renovated proscenium stage at the Lyceum Theatre preserves its historic charm while integrating modern sightlines and acoustics for today's performances.
Lyceum Theatre Renovation

San Diego, California

  • 2025, San Diego Architectural Foundation (SDAF), Orchid Public Architecture Award
PENN 2 Town Hall arranged for a keynote talk, highlighting adaptable seating and multimedia capabilities. Keynote Setup, Conference Space, Multi-Use Auditorium, AV Systems.
PENN 2

New York, New York

  • 2025, AIA New York State, Design Awards, Commercial/Industrial, Honor Award
  • 2025, Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, CTBUH Annual Awards, Overall Repositioning Award Winner
  • 2025, Facade Tectonics Institute, Vitruvian Honors & Awards | Best Adaptive Reuse
  • 2025, Interior Design, Best of Year Awards, Large Commercial Lobby & Amenity Space, Winner
  • 2023, AIA New York State, Design Awards, Unbuilt Projects, Merit Winner
  • 2023, Better Future, New York Design Awards, Architecture – Proposed, Gold Winner
  • 2023, Better Future, WILD Design Awards, Architecture – Proposed, Silver Winner
  • 2023, Interior Design, NYCxDesign Awards, On the Boards, Finalist
  • 2023, International Awards Associate, MUSE Design Awards, Architectural Design – Rebirth Project, Gold Winner
  • 2023, World Architecture News, WAN Awards, Future Project – Commercial, Gold Winner
This mid-rise affordable housing project has plenty of room to gather with multiple indoor and outdoor community spaces. Sister Lillian Murphy Community, Mission Bay. San Francisco, California © Bruce Damonte
Sister Lillian Murphy Community, Mission Bay

San Francisco, California

  • 2025, ULI Americas Awards for Excellence
  • 2023, AIA National Housing Award, Excellence in Affordable Housing
  • 2023, AIA San Francisco Architecture Design Award, Merit Award
  • 2023, ASLA National Honor Award Winner, Residential Design Category
  • 2023, Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award, Affordable Housing
  • 2022, AIA California, Design Award Recipient, Honor Award
  • 2022, ARCHITECT Magazine, Residential Architect Design Award, Honor Award

2024

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ASU Media & Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center

Mesa, Arizona

  • 2024, AIA AZ, Distinguished Architecture Award
  • 2024, AIA AZ, Goodwin Collaboration Award
  • 2024, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), Illumination Awards for Outdoor Lighting Design, Award of Merit
Pleasant Hill Library, Pleasant Hill, California. The outdoor activity yard and children’s play area can be used day and night. © Matthew Millman
Pleasant Hill Library

Pleasant Hill, California

2024, ALA/IIDA, Library Interior Design Award
2023, AIA East Bay Design Award
2023, Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Silver Medal
2023, IIDA-NC, Honor Award in the ‘Serve’ Category
2023, Library Design Showcase

2023

The Aquatic Center is tightly sandwiched between existing buildings with lighted areas of activity close to site boundaries. Marin Academy Aquatics Center, San Rafael, California © Daniel Peak
Marin Academy Aquatics Center

San Rafael, California

  • 2023, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), Award of Merit
The Hamlin School, San Francisco, California ©Mike Kelley. Founded in 1863, The Hamlin School is the oldest kindergarten through eighth grade, independent school for girls in San Francisco. The renovation and expansion of Hamlin prioritized the academic programs in STEAM, innovation, arts and athleticism to better unite the school and serve the students.
The Hamlin School

San Francisco, California

  • 2023, American Architecture Award, Schools and Universities Category, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum for Architecture and Design
  • 2023, Green GOOD DESIGN Sustainability Awards, Green Architecture
  • 2022, Restoration & Renovation, Architecture MasterPrize Awards
Seating was replaced and additional leg room provided in the orchestra. The Huntington Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. © Peter Vanderwarker
The Huntington Theatre

Boston, Massachusetts

  • 2023, Boston Preservation Alliance, Award Winner
  • 2023, ENR New England, Best Projects, Best Project Cultural/Worship
The main performance studio may be closed off from the lobby or opened to the lobby to create an interconnectedness with the rest of the building. Sandi Simon Center for Dance at Chapman University, Orange, California. © Eric Staudenmaier
Sandi Simon Center for Dance at Chapman University

Orange, California

  • 2023, AIA California, Design Award Recipient, Merit Award
  • 2023, Winner for Rehabilitation, California Preservation Foundation Awards
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. Center for Performing Arts. San Francisco, California. The facility includes classrooms, rehearsal rooms, offices, lounges, flexible event space and roof terrace for faculty and students, as well as an on-site café and short-term faculty housing. © Kyle Jeffers
SFCM – Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. Center for Performing ArtsSister Lillian Murphy Community, Mission Bay

San Francisco, California

  • 2023, Architizer A+ Awards, Cultural Hall/Theater Category, Finalist
  • 2022, Architecture MasterPrize Awards, Educational Buildings – Best of Best
  • 2022, Architecture MasterPrize Awards, Mixed Use
  • 2022, BLT Awards, Educational
  • 2022, Chicago Athenaeum Museum, American Architecture Awards – Honorable Mention

2022

San Francisco State University George and Judy Marcus Hall for the Creative Arts, San Francisco, California © Henrik Kam
San Francisco State University George and Judy Marcus Hall for the Creative Arts

San Francisco, California

  • 2022, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum for Architecture and Design American Architecture Award
Geneva Car Barn and Powerhouse, San Francisco, California © Matthew Millman
Geneva Car Barn and Powerhouse

San Francisco, California

  • 2022, Chapters Regional Conference Awards ASHRAE Region X
  • 2022, Interior Architecture Award AIA National

 

Through the utilization of an electronic acoustic enhancement system, the auditorium achieves a compact physical profile and reduced footprint compared to traditional passive acoustic methods. John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center, Santa Monica, California. © Eric Staudenmaier
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Santa Monica, California

  • 2022, AIA Los Angeles, LA Design Award
  • 2022, Chicago Athenaeum: American Architecture Awards, The American Architecture Awards, Honorable Mention

 

2021

Dropbox Headquarters, San Francisco, California. Central meeting spaces are located between different neighborhoods, the lighting is casual and comfortable. Architectural Lighting; Lighting Design; Corporate. © Davies Imaging Group
Dropbox Headquarters

San Francisco, California

  • 2021, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), International Illumination Design Awards, Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award for Interior Lighting, Award of Merit
  • 2021, LIT Lighting Design Awards, Honorable Mention, Workplace Lighting
Sunac Guangzhou Grand Theatre, Huadu, Guangzhou, China
Sunac Guangzhou Grand Theatre

Huadu, Guangzhou, China

  • 2021, Mondo DR Awards, The International Awards for Technology in Entertainment, Winner: Theatre – Sunac Guangzhou Grand Theatre

2020

350 Bush Street/Historic Mining Exchange. Architecturally integrated façade lighting highlights the columns and building name at the historic Mining Exchange. © Scott Hargis
350 Bush Street/Historic Mining Exchange

San Francisco, California

  • 2020, PCBC: Gold Nugget Award – Grand Prizes

2019

Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, New York © Francis Dzikowski
Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

New York, New York

  • 2019, United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Architecture Awards, Merit Award
  • 2011, AIA/New York Chapter, Merit Award
  • 2011, ENR New York Magazine, Best Projects, Cultural/Worship category

2010-2018

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Salon Dore, San Francisco, California
Legion of Honor, Salon Doré

San Francisco, California

  • 2015, AL Architectural Lighting magazine, AL Design Awards, Commendable Achievement, Exhibition Lighting and Temporary Installations
  • 2015, International Association of Lighting Designers, Merit Award
Emerson College, The Paramount Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Emerson College, The Paramount Center

Boston, Massachusetts

  • 2012, SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture for Building Additions or Adaptive Reuse, Merit Award 2011, Live Design magazine, Excellence Awards, Venues – Performance and Theatre
  • 2011, Preservation Massachusetts, Paul E. Tsongas Award
The Mammoth Lakes Courthouse is in the forested mountains of Mono county. The site lighting meets stringent security requirements while minimizing light pollution and trespass, respecting the natural environment. Mammoth Lakes Courthouse, Mammoth Lakes, California © Tim Griffith
Mammoth Lakes Courthouse

Mammoth Lakes, California

  • 2012, AIA, Justice Facilities Review
  • 2012, Engineering News Record, Best Government/Public Building Project
Stanford University - Windhover Contemplative Center, Palo Alto, California
Stanford University – Windhover Contemplative Center

Palo Alto, California

  • 2016, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), San Francisco Section, First Place, Award of Honor
  • 2015, IIDA National Chapter, 42nd Interior Design Competition, Winner and Best of Competition
Monterey Bay Aquarium - Open Sea Exhibit, Monterey, California. © Monterey Bay Aquarium/Randy Wilder. The back of the tank disappears into the darkness as light is deliberately kept off the back wall and the color of the tile wall changes to a deep blue.
Monterey Bay Aquarium – Open Sea Exhibit

Monterey, California

  • 2013, Award of Excellence by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America

2000-2009

American Museum of Natural History, Rose Center for Earth and Space, Hayden Planetarium, New York, New York
American Museum of Natural History, Rose Center for Earth and Space, Hayden Planetarium

New York, New York

  • 2002, AIA National Honor Award For Architecture
  • 2001, AIA/New York Chapter, Design Excellence Award
  • 2001, The Chicago Athenaeum, American Architecture Award
The endstage configuration is used most often. The balcony sconces display an early use of LED lighting. Carnegie Hall - Judy & Arthur Zankel Hall, New York, New York © Jeff Goldberg/Esto
Carnegie Hall – Judy & Arthur Zankel Hall

New York, New York

  • 2004, United States Institute of Theatre Technology, Architecture Award, Merit Award
  • 2003, Contract Magazine, Interiors Awards, Public Spaces Award
Conference Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
Conference Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Salt Lake City, Utah

  • 2002, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), International Illumination Design Awards, Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award for Interior Lighting, Award of Merit
The 1300-seat hall’s integrated orchestra enclosure supports symphony and recital performances. Sandler Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia © Steve Budman
Sandler Center for the Performing Arts

Virginia Beach, Virginia

  • 2008, AIA Hampton Roads Chapter, Award for Design Excellence

1990-1999

San Francisco War Memorial

San Francisco, California

  • 1998, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) of North America, International Illumination Design Awards, Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award for Interior Lighting, Award of Excellence
  • 1998, International Association of Lighting Designers, Special Citation for Sensitive Historic Restoration
Lighting for the historic main sanctuary was completely renovated using both architectural and theatrical lighting techniques. A ceiling oculus was added to light the bimah and provide adequate light for the congregation. Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, California © Chas McGrath
Temple Emanu-El

San Francisco, California

  • 1991, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) of North America, International Illumination Design Awards, Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award for Interior Lighting, Award of Excellence