AIA Chesapeake Bay Design Excellence Award Winners

By Robert Haywood

Annapolis Home is pleased to present the American Institute of Architects Chesapeake Bay design award winners of 2019. The architects’ peers select the winning projects through an anonymous judging process.

We open the AIA awards with the Woods residence, a private home in Easton, MD. The home received the highest award for a residential remodel. The designers transformed a typical colonial style home, with many dark and small rooms, into a clean, open, light-filled contemporary home, beautifully integrated into the landscape.

Shinberg Levinas Architects, based in Washington D.C., re-designed the home, Tim Saulsbury Construction served as the general contractor, and Oehme, van Sweden & Associates designed the landscape. The project required removing the old ceiling and completely renovating the interior, including adding a new custom kitchen, living spaces, bedrooms, exterior deck and pergola, and designing the exterior landscaping.    

This home demonstrates how an expert team of designers is able to turn an indistinct structure into an exceptionally designed home that opens and responds to the waterfront landscape.

ARCHITECT: Shinberg.Levinas Architects, shinberglevinas.com  |  PHOTOGRAPHER: Alan Karchmer

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Annapolis Home Magazine
Vol. 11, No. 1 2020