AWARDS

Rob Sanders Architects was honored to be a finalist in IDA’s 2021 Outstanding Design category.

The 2021 Connecticut Innovation in Design Awards (IDAs) honored outstanding design in Connecticut as well as the Innovator Award recipient, Anthony Baratta.

Rob Sanders Architects was selected as a 2020 A-List Finalist for Bedroom Design: Traditional/Classic: New Canaan Shingle-style Residence

The A-list Awards celebrates the best in interior design, architecture and landscape design in Fairfield County. Winners are selected by a panel of nationally recognized judges, all experts in their fields.

Jointly presented by AIA Connecticut and the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, the Elizabeth Mills Brown award recognizes projects that are noteworthy both as respectful preservation of historic places and as excellent architectural designs.

The New Canaan Preservation Alliance’s 2019 President’s Award was given for careful stewardship and restoration of the 1761 Aaron Comstock house at 263 Oenoke Ridge Road. The owners preserved the façade of the historic home, repaired, and rebuilt original integral elements such as structural beams and chimney, while implementing sensitive interior alterations to provide for contemporary living.

RSA also provided restoration work for the previous owners in the 1980’s, replacing inappropriately scaled windows and doors on the south façade, better integrating earlier expansions and adding a three-car garage.

The house at 58 Huckleberry Hill Road was renovated while preserving most of the exterior elevations and adding a handsome new area in the rear of the house, sensitively designed by Rob Sanders Architects, Wilton.  The house was built by Cornelia Ellis and Howard Logan Hildebrandt in 1910 as a summer house and studio.  One of the current owners grew up in the house.

Following the laying out of the “Darien Road”, now Brookside Road, after 1825, this small shingled farmhouse was built in the Greek Revival style c1838, with its gable facing the road and a three-bay façade with the door at the left. Over time, the house evolved and expanded.  Rob Sanders Architects of Wilton reorganized the spaces, added a crossing gable to terminate the porch and provide space for a hallway and bath upstairs, reconstructed the 1973 family room addition with a new hall and stair, expanded the kitchen and removed the chimney from the early 1900’s kitchen.

The 1838 Farmhouse represents good preservation practices by: 1)  preserving the front portion consisting of the original house with its Colonial Revival decorations, but removing the later bay window, and 2)   rehabilitating the property with new additions, and the remodeling the 1973 though 1990’s additions and alterations.

Rob Sanders was presented two awards for the restoration and adaptive reuse of the 1840 William Nichols house and barn in Wilton, CT, plus relocation and adaptive use of two other local barns threatened with demolition.

The Built Environment Award recognizes outstanding preservation efforts of historically significant elements, including restoration or adaptive reuse of an historic building or structure, and sensitive additions to an historic building or structure.

Rob Sanders was presented with an award for the restoration and adaptive reuse of the Davenport-Dana House in Wilton, which is now Trackside at Dana House Teen Center.

Presenting the award to Mr. Sanders, Executive Director Helen Higgins said, “The old Davenport-Dana homestead, dating from the 1760’s and threatened with demolition in the 1990’s, has been reborn as a Teen Center in Wilton. The town of Wilton purchased the building in the late 1990’s. Sanders’ adaptive reuse design envisioned an old New England farmstead growing in typical fashion with converted barns and outbuildings. The result is a building that fits the historic center of Wilton while fulfilling a significant social need — that of giving teens a place to hang out as well as have positive experiences.”