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Robert Orr & Associates

  • HOME/
  • Urban Planning/
    • Beachwalk, Michigan City, IN
    • Cotton Street, Portland, ME
    • Senior Campus, Celebration, FL
    • Southport Green, Southport, CT
    • Madison Landing, Madison, CT
    • Cottrel Landing, Mystic, CT
    • SmartCode Hamden, CT
  • Residential/
    • Alys Beach, FL
    • Aspen, CO - Bucksbaum
    • Coastal Cottages
    • Greenwich, CT
    • Guanacaste, Costa Rica - Las Catalinas
    • Lake Placid, NY
    • Lyme, CT
    • Mountainville, NJ - Langone
    • New Canaan, CT - Forbes
    • Pleasant Street Historic District, Gainesville, FL
    • Redding, CT Residence
    • Seaside, FL - Natchez House
    • Snowmass, CO
    • Vail, CO
    • Vero Beach, FL - Schafer
    • Essex, CT
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  • About/
    • Firm Profile
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    • Awards + Honors
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Robert Orr & Associates

Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urbanism

Awards + Honors

Robert Orr & Associates

  • HOME/
  • Urban Planning/
    • Beachwalk, Michigan City, IN
    • Cotton Street, Portland, ME
    • Senior Campus, Celebration, FL
    • Southport Green, Southport, CT
    • Madison Landing, Madison, CT
    • Cottrel Landing, Mystic, CT
    • SmartCode Hamden, CT
  • Residential/
    • Alys Beach, FL
    • Aspen, CO - Bucksbaum
    • Coastal Cottages
    • Greenwich, CT
    • Guanacaste, Costa Rica - Las Catalinas
    • Lake Placid, NY
    • Lyme, CT
    • Mountainville, NJ - Langone
    • New Canaan, CT - Forbes
    • Pleasant Street Historic District, Gainesville, FL
    • Redding, CT Residence
    • Seaside, FL - Natchez House
    • Snowmass, CO
    • Vail, CO
    • Vero Beach, FL - Schafer
    • Essex, CT
    • New Page
  • About/
    • Firm Profile
    • Testimonials
    • Awards + Honors
    • In the News
    • Research
 

New York Architectural League Young Architects Forum Award, 1982

House of the 90’s, Atlanta, GA

Rosewalk Neighborhood and Town Plan, Seaside, FL 

Southern Pine Great Outdoors Design Competition, Winner, Dec 1987

CSA/AIA Award, 1986 

Builder Magazine, Grand Award (Builder’s Choice Design and Planning Awards), 1986 

Architectural Record, Record Houses Award, 1986

1985 Wood Design Award from The American Wood Council, 1985

CSA/AIA Award (before construction awards), 1986

Theater, Offices, Shops, Restaurant, Public Square and Town Plan, Mashpee, Cape Cod, MA

CSA/AIA Award (Architectural Awards for Unbuilt Projects), 1986

Best Small House: Finalist

Winner, New Haven Development Competition, July 1987

Southern Pine Great Outdoors Competition 

Winner, Garden Architecture, July 1987

Roland Table

Builder Magazine, Merit Award (Builder’s Choice Design and Planning Awards), 1988

Anchorage State Office Complex and Town Plan, Anchorage, AK

House Beautiful, Award, (Invited Competition), 9/1988

Grand Avenue Neighborhood Housing Complex, Fair Haven, CT

International Council of Shopping Centers, Merit Certificate, 1989

House Beautiful, Sponsored and Built by House Beautiful and The American Wood Council, 1990

Kearns Residence, Milford, CT 

Finalist, Progressive Architecture, Furniture Competition

Yale Boathouse and Dormitory Complex and Master Plan, Gales Ferry, CT

 

Mazzotta House Medical Clinic and Mixed-Use Complex, Middletown, CT

Boston Society of Architects Award, March 1993

New Hope Farm Compound, New Hope, Pennsylvania

AIA Connecticut Architectural Drawing Award, June 1995

The Natchez House Compound, Seaside, Florida

Design Concepts, Designer of the Year Award, September 1999 

Builder Magazine, Special Focus Award (Builder’s Choice Design and Planning Awards), October 1997 

Distinguished Service Award, Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, November, 2006

Outstanding Philanthropy, Volunteer Efforts & Leadership Award, Columbus House, Spring, 2006

Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, May 4, 2006

Letter of Gubernatorial Commendation, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, May 2, 2006

Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding & Renewal (ROA work in Waveland, Mississippi)

First Place Gulf Guardian Partnership Award, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gulf of Mexico Program, December 13, 2006

 Shartenberg Block (Downtown New Haven 100 Units/Acre Mixed-Use Block)

Award, New England Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU-NE), March 4, 2007

Southport Green (Village Infill 8 Units/Acre Mixed-Use Development)

AIA/CT Alice Washburn Award, Urban House, April, 2010

Award, New England Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU-NE), March 4, 2007

 

Hamden SmartCode (Form-base Code for 14.5 square miles of Hamden, CT)

Award, New England Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU-NE), April 2, 2009

Robert Orr

Fellow American Institute of Architects (FAIA), Elevated to College of Fellows, the highest honor the American Institute of Architects can bestow. May 16, 2008

WASP Representative, Congresssional Gold Medal (Posthumous) -For Service of my Mother, Joanne Wallace Orr, in the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during WWII, Washington, DC, March 10, 2010

Silver Medal, Tau Sigma Delta Architecture Honor Society - Tau Sigma Delta Architecture Honor Society’s annual award to a professional with a record of distinction in design in the field of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or the Allied Arts. Tau Sigma Delta is the only honor society recognized in the field of architecture, landscape architecture, and the allied arts. This is a distinct honor and gives Tau Sigma Delta the esteem enjoyed by the most distinguished honor societies of other fields. 2020

Urban Guild Award for Design Excellence, Central Plaza Building, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 2020

In 2015, Robert Orr was selected as one of the CNU Fellows.

CNU inaugural class of fellows are long-time members who have made remarkable contributions to the New Urbanism Movement. See more at: https://www.cnu.org/movement/fellows

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