Best Associate Architectural Design: Best New Residential Construction
In 2007, the Community Builders Association of New Jersey awarded Fox
Architectural Design the Best New Residential Construction award for the design of a new Pool House.
The pool house is constructed on a steeply sloping landscape and its configuration takes advantage of the site and creates a
dramatic backdrop to the large endless pool.
Best Associate Architectural Design: Best Commercial Renovation
In 2007, the Community Builders Association of New Jersey awarded Fox
Architectural Design the Best Commercial Renovation for Senorita's Mexican Grill.
An existing vacant hardware store on Glenwood Avenue in Bloomfield, New Jersey was transformed into a new vibrant three-story restaurant. The
reuse and modification of an existing structure for an entirely new purpose demonstrates our commitment to saving, but updating the streetscape
of our cities.
AIA Newark and Suburban Architects 2006 Design Competition.
The Senorita's Mexican Grill project was entered
into our local chapter of the AIA's 2006 design competition and it tied for first place. This structure was an abandoned and
dilapidated retail building that was reborn as a three-story restaurant. Minor changes to the front of the ground level made
the building more suitable to its new use without significantly changing how it engages the streetscape. The addition of color
on the walls, and on the new awnings, provides a visual clue as to the theme of the restaurant inside. It is an effective
enticement and advertisement for the facility without resorting to large signs that would change the established relationship
to the street. The adaptive reuse of various elements on the building scale is analogous to how the building is recreated
in the scale of its neighborhood context.