2024 KATHRYN MARIE FIRNEIS MEMORIAL STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
From R to L: Asaf Yogev, Kathryn Marie Firneis, Octavio Santurio at the 2019 SARA NY Design Awards
The Kathryn Marie Firneis Memorial Student Scholarship for Excellence in Design is in honor of our friend and honorary SARA member Kathy Firneis, beloved wife of our former treasurer and national past president Robert Firneis, and mother of Kyle and Bryan. Kathy loved being involved with SARA and was truly dedicated to the organization and and its mission; showing outstanding support to our student participants. Kathy loved connecting architecture students to the vast network of SARA architects. She made sure to introduce every student award winner to as many attending architects and winners as she could to make sure that they could follow up for employment and mentorship. To honor Kathy’s amazing dedication and spirit of paying it forward, we present this scholarship to the top Student Design Award of Excellence annually at the SARA NY Design Awards.
SARA NY Council celebrates excellence in architecture and design through the SARA NY Design Awards, which attracts entries from across the country and around the world from individuals, firms, and students of architecture and allied disciplines. Awards are granted for a wide range of categories and project types, and all entrants will be invited to attend the awards ceremony held in New York, New York on June 11th, 2024 at The View at Battery Park. A student scholarship of $3000 will be awarded to the top student design of excellence. Submissions are now open for all architectural and design students. *Please remember to credit ALL participating student architects and designers who worked on the submitted project.
SUBMIT YOUR DESIGN PROJECT HERE
*Under CHAPTER, Please Remember to Select SARA NY Council 2024 Design Awards.
Sponsorships to the 2024 Design Awards
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Awards
Awards will be given with the following distinctions: Excellence, Merit, Honor
Entries were judged based upon any or all of the following:
Clarity of Concept, Strength and Uniqueness of Solution, and Accurate
Scope of Work
Response to Project’s Context of Rural, Suburban, Urban, Campus, or Other
Unique Neighboring Conditions
Appropriateness, Applicability, and Function
Overall Design Aesthetics
Creativity, Innovation, Ingenuity, and Invention
Social/Cultural/Community Relevance
Award recipients will be notified by May 2024.
Awards will be presented at the SARA NY Design Awards Celebration, June 11th, 2024 at The View at Battery Park.
Entrants and winners will be invited to attend along with their clients, consultants, contractors, fellow students, professors, and families.
Eligibility
Architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and design projects may be submitted by individuals, firms, or students of these disciplines. See Project Categories for a complete list. No project may be submitted which has previously received a SARA NY Council Design Award. Projects must credit ALL participating designers on the project.
Important Dates
February 1st, 2024
Submissions Open for 2024 Design Awards
April 5th, 2024 - NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE
Deadline for 2024 Design Award Submissions
June 11th, 2024
2024 SARA NY Design Awards
The View at Battery Park - 1 Battery Park, Suite 1, New York, NY 10004
6pm-10pm
Keynote Speaker - Sharon Prince, CEO & Founder of Grace Farm Foundation & Design for Freedom Movement
Categories
Entries are to be submitted into any one of the categories listed below. Category assignments may be revised at the discretion of the jury. Each project will be judged upon its own merit separate from other submissions, regardless of category.
Single-Family Residential
Multi-Family Residential: Condominiums, Apartments
Multi-Family Residential: Affordable Housing, Low Income Housing, Market Rate Housing (Quantity and Percentage required.)
Commercial: Office, Retail, Industrial, Mixed-Use
Institutional: Educational, Health-Related, Religious
Cultural
Government
Urban Design
Additions and Small Projects
Renovation, Restoration, and Adaptive Re-use
Sustainable Design
Unbuilt and Theoretical Projects
Architectural Interiors
Landscape Architecture (in any of the above categories)
Planning: City and Regional, Urban, Feasibility Studies
Related Arts: Industrial Design, Furniture, Lighting, Hardware, etc.
Graphic Communication: Rendering, Computer Graphics, Modeling, Virtual Reality Imaging
Material Sciences
Student Projects (in any of the above categories)
Entry Fees
SARA Members $200
SARA Non-members $300
Students $30
Venue
The View at Battery Park - 1 Battery Park Ste 1, New York, NY 10004
Stay
Hotel recommendations and room group codes TBD.
Questions?
For any queries, please contact SARA|NY Executive Director, Justin Brown, at webmaster@sarany.org.