General Design Category

Novelty Hill. Januik Winery - SPECIAL MENTION AWARD
Mithun with Catherine Anderson | Special Mention for Architecture-Landscape Collaboration

Jury Comments:
Januik Winery is recognized for its strength in architectural and site-landscape integration.

The integrity of the project’s architectural expression extends into the winery grounds and the designers have cleverly organized the winery’s public and operational components around a strong site plan.

The jury appreciated the overall composition in which a layered parti of slipping groundplanes or terraces appear to be well integrated into the functional components of a working winery and tasting facility. The richness in spatial organization is exemplified in both the conceptual plan graphics illustrating this spatial layering, but more telling is its actual execution.

The project’s construction detailing is clean, crisp, and well articulated and will only get richer with the passage of time and the maturation of the project’s plantings. We applaud the materiality of the project and its seamless expression and extension into the landscape. Walls, shade structures and other site features are well executed.