Awards
Green good design award
The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design awarded Marc Thorpe Design the 2021 Green Good Design® Award for the Edifice. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, product, packaging, and graphic designs from 28 nations were awarded with Green Good Design 2021, representing the world’s most important manufacturers and design firms and leading fortune 500 corporations that are forwarding a new emphasis on a more sustainable design and environment worldwide.
This is the 13th year our institutions have developed this very specialized edition of the original Good Design program, which was founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames. Green Good Design identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and to develop a public awareness program to the general public about which global companies are doing the best job ecological and sustainable design for our world environments. The original Good Design® founded in Chicago in 1950 program remains the oldest and most important awards program worldwide.
American architecture award
Marc Thorpe Design wins the American Architecture Award for the Edifice. The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, now celebrating the 27th year, The American Architectural Awards® are the nation’s highest and most prestigious distinguished building awards program that honor new and cutting-edge design in the United States.
This annual program, organized by both our institutions, also promotes American architecture and design to the public audience in the U.S. and abroad. This year, the Museum received a record number of projects for new buildings, landscape architecture, and urban planning from the most important firms practicing in the U.S. and globally.