Awards / Achievements

Otay Mesa Land Port of Entry

(Gruen Associates, Jones Studio, Clark/Atkinson, GSA)

• American Public Works Association (APWA) Project of the Year Award 2025 - Honored for transforming the commercial port, doubling inspection capacity, and smoothing cross-border traffic.

• ENR California Best Projects Award of Merit2024 - Recognizing in the Government/Public Building category by Engineering News-Record.

• AIA Arizona Design Award Distinguished Architecture2025 - Celebrating the project's overall design excellence and environmental integration. (Gruen Associates with Jones Studio)

• CMAA San Diego Special Merit Award 2024 -Acknowledged by the Construction Management Association of America for outsized community and regional impact.

Apple Tower Theatre

(Gruen Associates, Foster+Partners, Shawmut, Matt Construction, Historic Resource Group, Apple)

• AIA LA Design Award of Honor 2021 – Acknowledging excellence in Adaptive Reuse, Renovation, and Historic Preservation.

• Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Award 2022 – Honoring the innovative adaptive reuse of the historic 1927 movie house.

• California Preservation Foundation Rehabilitation Design Award – Recognizing exceptional historic preservation standards.

• ENR California Best Renovation/Restoration Project Award of Merit – Highlighting regional construction and engineering quality.

• The Institution of Structural Engineers Structural Award – Commending complex structural integration inside a landmark shell

Harry Winston San Francisco

(Gruen Associates, Build Group, The Swatch Group)

• Construction Excellence Award 2019- Historical Restoration Interior

“Tall Building Delirium, The Next Life of the Metlife Building”

(Natalie J. Park, D.Arch Committee: Daniel Friedman, Ken Long, Greg Hong, Greg Keating, William Chapman)

• HAF Scholar 2016 - Dissertation, University of Hawai’i, School of Architecture

• UH Practicum Fund Scholar 2015 - Dissertation Research