Awards

Our office has been recognized with over 140 design awards


Line and Space office

Awards

  • Best Sustainable Design Practice - Arizona, BUILD, 2018

  • Architectural Firm of the Year, AIA Arizona, 2011

  • Sustainable Firm of the Year, AIA Arizona, 2009

  • 100 Desert Architects Hotlist, Desert Living Magazine, 2007

  • Firm of the Year, AIA Western Mountain Region, 1999


Line and Space PROJECTS

40x40

  • Component Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2020

Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine

  • Unbuilt Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2020

Arboretum at Flagstaff Research Conservation Complex

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2005

  • Arizona Public Service Energy Award, AIA Arizona, 2002

  • Merit Award, AIA Arizona, 2002

 

Arboretum at Flagstaff Visitor Center

  • Merit Award, AIA Arizona, 2006

  • SRP Sustainable Design Award, AIA Arizona, 2005

 

Arizona Sonora Desert Museum

  • Twenty-Five Year Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2019

  • Twenty-Five Year Award, AIA Western Mountain Region, 2019

  • Best of Tucson, Sonoran Institute, 2002

  • Honor Award for Excellence in Masonry, Arizona Masonry Guild, 1998

  • Honor Award, AIA Western Mountain Region, 1996

  • Arizona Public Service Energy Award, AIA Arizona, 1995

  • Energy Award, Tucson Electric Power Company, 1995

  • Merit Award, AIA Arizona, 1995

  • Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1995

  • Roy P. Drachman Award, University of Arizona College of Architecture, 1993

 

The Arroyo House

  • Twenty-Five Year Award, AIA Western Mountain Region, 2018

  • Twenty-Five Year Award, AIA Arizona, 2015

  • Honor Award – Western Home Awards, AIA Arizona/Sunset Magazine, 1995

  • Honor Award, AIA Arizona, 1992

  • Honor Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1992

  • Honor Award – Homes of the Year, AIA Arizona/Phoenix Home and Garden, 1992

  • Merit Award, AIA Western Mountain Region, 1992

 

Birkinbine Greenhouse

  • Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1984

 

Boyce Thompson Arboretum Visitor Center

  • 2017 Twenty-Five Year Award, AIA Western Mountain Region, 2017

  • 2014 Twenty-Five Year Award, AIA Arizona, 2014

  • Citation Award, AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), 1991

  • Citation Award, Desert Living Awards – International Desert Living Symposium, 1991

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1990

  • The Governor's Solar Energy Award, Arizona State Governor's Office, 1989

 

C-Fu Fine Asian Dining

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2004

 

Campbell Cliffs

  • Tucker Design Award, Building Stone Institute, 2008

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2004

  • Gold Trowel for Excellence in Masonry, Arizona Masonry Guild, 2003

  • Home of the Year, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2003

 

Cesar Chavez Regional Library

  • 2016 BUILD Awards, BUILD, 2016

  • Honorable Mention Institutional, Re-thinking the Future Sustainability Awards, 2014

  • Honorable Mention Public Building, Re-thinking the Future Awards, 2014

  • Grand Prize – Construction, Russia's Union of Architects and ARD-Center Publishing House, Env. Sustainable Living Conditions Competition, 2012

  • New Landmark Library, Library Journal, 2011

  • COTE Top Ten Green Project, AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE), 2008

  • Best LEED Project of the Year , National Concrete Masonry Association, 2008

  • Citation Award, AIA Arizona, 2008

  • Award of Excellence, Arizona Masonry Guild, 2007

  • Award of Excellence, National Concrete Masonry Association, 2007

  • Best of 2007 for Arizona, Southwest Contractor, 2007

  • Crescordia Award for Environmental Excellence, Valley Forward Association, 2007

  • Honor Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2007

  • Merit Award, AIA Western Mountain Region, 2007

 

Contact Station Red Rock Canyon Visitor Center

  • Design Award – Natural Metals, Metal Architecture Magazine, 2011

  • Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2010

 

Duffy Elementary School

  • Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1993

 

Elgin Elementary School

  • Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1993


Flowing Wells Library Addition

  • Citation Built Award, AIA WMR, 2021

  • Merit Award, AIA Arizona, 2020

  • Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2019

  • Design Showcase, American Library Association, 2019

  • Golden Trowel, Arizona Masonry Guild, 2019

 

Hana House

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2013

 

The Hansen Residence

  • Citation for Excellence in Masonry, Arizona Masonry Guild, 1997

  • Merit Award, AIA Western Mountain Region, 1997

  • Arizona Public Service Energy Award, AIA Arizona, 1996

  • Honor Award – Arizona Home of the Year, AIA Arizona/Phoenix Home and Garden, 1996

  • Merit Award, AIA Arizona, 1996

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1995

 

Hillel Foundation Student Center

  • Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1988

  • Energy Efficient Design Award, Electric League of Arizona, 1987

 

Historic Office Court

  • Roy P. Drachman Award, University of Arizona College of Architecture, 1982

 

Integrated Shade Seat

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2005

  • Citation Award – Unbuilt, AIA Arizona, 2001

  • First Place Award, City of Tucson Department of Transportation, 2000

 

The Island

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2014

 

The Linear Parks Restrooms

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1992

 

Mojave Discovery Center

  • Winner – Commercial Concept, Re-thinking the Future Sustainability Awards, 2014

  • Honor Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2009

 

National Historic Trails Interpretive Center

  • Honor Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2004

 

National Museum of Afghanistan

  • Citation Award – Unbuilt, AIA Arizona, 2017

  • Honorable Mention Public Building Concept, Re-thinking the Future Sustainability Awards, 2014

  • Merit Award – Unbuilt, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2014

 

Pima Animal Care Center

  • Arizona Honor Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2019

  • Citation Award – Unbuilt, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2017

 

Red Rock Canyon Desert Learning Center

  • Merit Award – Unbuilt, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2007

 

Red Rock Canyon Visitor Center

  • Winner – Public Building, Re-thinking the Future Sustainability Awards, 2014

  • Design Award of Excellence Sustainability, National Concrete Masonry Association, 2013

  • American Architecture Award, "European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum", 2012

  • Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2012

  • Citation Award, AIA Western Mountain Region, 2011

  • Grand Prize – Sustainable, California/Nevada Concrete Masonry Association, 2011

  • Grand Prize – Public/Civic Building, California/Nevada Concrete Masonry Association, 2011

  • SRP Sustainable Design Award, AIA Arizona, 2011

  • Best of 2010 – Green Building, Southwest Contractor, 2010

  • Best of 2010 – Honorable Mention Architectural Design, Southwest Contractor, 2010

  • Excellence in Construction Eagle Award, Associated Builders and Contractors, 2010

 

Sahuarita Regional Library

  • Excellence in Masonry Architecture Award, Arizona Masonry Council, 2023

  • Sustainable Design Award, Metal Architecture Design Awards, 2023

  • Citation Distinguished Architecture, AIA Southern Arizona, 2022

  • Culture/Worship Best Project, ENR Regional Best, 2021

  • Unbuilt Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona, 2020

San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex

  • Unique Small Project Award, Build San Diego Awards, 2011

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2010

 

San Pedro Riparian Center

  • Arizona Public Service Energy Award, AIA Arizona, 1997

 

"Skymarkers" Tucson Gateway Design Competition

  • First Place Award, Tucson-Pima Arts Council/National Endowment for the Arts, 2001

 

Slusser Memorial Library

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2004

  • Roy P. Drachman Award, University of Arizona College of Architecture, 2001

  • Citation for Excellence in Masonry, Arizona Masonry Guild, 2000

 

St. Francis in the Foothills

  • Tucson Architectural Landmark, University of Arizona Architecture Archives / Tucson Weekly, 2001

 

St. Francis in the Foothills Education Facility

  • Merit Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1990

  • Honor Award, 1989

  • Energy Efficient Honor Design Award, Electric League of Arizona, 1988

 

St. Gregory Science and Technology Complex

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2004

  • SRP Sustainable Design Award, AIA Arizona, 2004

 

Tucson Interior Design Center

  • Roy P. Drachman Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 1985

 

The Two

  • 2A Asia Architecture Award, 2A Magazine, 2017

  • Honorable Mention Commercial Building, Re-thinking the Future Awards, 2014

  • Merit Award, AIA Western Mountain Region, 2013

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2012

 

University of Arizona Poetry Center

  • Roy P. Drachmen Award, The University of Arizona, 2019

  • Golden A' Design Award, A' Design, 2017

  • New Landmark Academic Library – Honorable Mention, Library Journal, 2012

  • Citation Award, AIA Arizona, 2009

  • Citation Award, Arizona Masonry Guild, 2009

  • Favorite Public Architecture, Tucson Home Magazine, 2009

  • Best of 2008 for Arizona, Southwest Contractor, 2008

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2008

 

Worlds of Words

  • Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2014

Woven Through Time

  • Component Citation Award, AIA Southern Arizona Chapter, 2020


Line and Space staff

Henry Tom, FAIA

  • Advanced to Fellow, AIA (National), 2018

  • Arizona Architect's Medal, AIA Arizona, 2010

  • Young Architect Citation, AIA Arizona, 2001

 

Les Wallach, FAIA

  • Alumni Association Centennial Achievement Award, University of Arizona, 1998

  • Western Mountain Region Silver Metal for Design Excellence, AIA Western Mountain Region, 1996

  • Advanced to Fellow, AIA (National), 1993

  • Arizona Architect's Medal for Design Excellence, AIA Arizona, 1989