The Saint Sarkis Church receives the 2024 AIANY Honor Award in Architecture

At the annual AIANY Awards banquet on Friday April 12th, our Saint Sarkis Armenian Church and Community Center received the 2024 Honor Award in Architecture, the highest recognition offered by the New York City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. 

Only three Honor Awards for new buildings were awarded from the pool of 180 entries submitted by the 500 architecture firms working in New York City.  

As a small parish church located in the suburbs north of Dallas Texas that was funded and built by the congregation, this Honor Award has a special significance.  Alone among the Honor Award winners the Saint Sarkis Church was created by and for a small local community, rather than by a major institutional client with a lavish budget set on a prominent site in a major metropolis. 

With gratitude and congratulations to the visionary primary patron Elie Akilian, associated architect Stepan Terzyan, landscape designer Zepur Ohanian and Bishop Parsamyan of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church In America, all of whom attended the Award luncheon. 

'Best of Year' Award announcement in Interior Design Magazine offers a thoughtful appraisal of the memorial facade of the Saint Sarkis Church......

The facade of the Saint Sarkis Church has received a BEST OF YEAR award from the editors of Interior Design Magazine. Georgina McWhirter contributed this beautifully succinct appraisal to accompany the announcement of the award-winning design:

“The victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide are remembered in the highly detailed, printed porcelain rain screen panels by Fiandre that clad the entry to this new church in Carrollton, Texas. Perspective unfolds the story. From a distance, a large Armenian cross can be glimpsed; drawing nearer, the cross is revealed to be composed of smaller traditional botanical motifs. Viewed closer still, the image dissolves into a grid of circular icons, 1 centimeter in diameter, each unique and representing one of the 1.5 million individuals killed over a century ago. David Hotson and team wrote a computer script to generate the differing icon patterns and distribute them by density to form the multilayered design, which powerfully conveys the scale of loss.”

Saint Sarkis Church selected as the 2022 US BUILDING OF THE YEAR.........

The Saint Sarkis Armenian Church was selected as the 2022 US BUILDING OF THE YEAR on the World-Architects web platform. World-Architects selected forty buildings completed in 2022 as candidates for the BUILDING OF THE YEAR, with the winner selected by popular vote. The Saint Sarkis Church received an overwhelming vote total, capturing 64% of the total votes for all 40 projects, a testament to the way in which the Saint Sarkis Church has been embraced by the congregation and within the international Armenian Diaspora.

Saint Sarkis Church recognized in the 2022 AN 'Best of Design' Awards program

The Saint Sarkis Church was the awarded an Honorable Mention by the jury of the annual Best of Design Awards program administered by The Architects Newspaper.

Saint Sarkis Church honored as 'Best of Year' for 2022.......

At the annual award ceremony in midtown Manhattan DHA received a Best of Year Award for the design of the Saint Sarkis Armenian Church from the editors of Interior Design Magazine.

Saint Sarkis Church reviewed by Armenian architectural critic Tigran Harutyunyan on leading Russian-language design website archi.ru.....

Armenian architectural critic Tigran Harutyunyan posted a thoughtful review which provides a deeper historical context for the design of the Saint Sarkis Church, entitled "A Bold Image of Resilience”. English translation available when viewing this posting on Google Chrome…......

An insightful appreciation of the Saint Sarkis Church featured in 'Fast Company' Magazine......

Writer Nate Berg interprets the Saint Sarkis Church and the Memorial Facade and their relationship to the embattled history of Armenia as the world’s most ancient Christian nation.

DHA Saint Sarkis Church featured as 'The Building of the Week' on World-Architects.com

The Saint Sarkis Armenian Church was consecrated on Saturday April 23rd and celebrated the first Sunday service yesterday, on April 24th. Today, April 25th, the Saint Sarkis Church was selected by World-Architects.com as the ‘American Building of the Week’.

DHA Penthouse at the Woolworth Building featured in profile in The New Yorker aptly entitled "The Art of Building the Impossible".....

We are grateful for having had the opportunity to collaborate with some masterful builders and tradesmen over the years. In his understated, good-natured way, the most extraordinary of them all is Mark Ellison , which makes him a fitting subject of a beautifully written profile by Burkhard Bilger in the November 30th issue of The New Yorker, aptly entitled "The Art of Building the Impossible”.

This is an insightful portrait of Mark, and also captures the unique challenges and rarified standards required to work at the summit of the residential construction industry in New York. The profile focusses on Mark’s favorite executed projects, the astonishing art-nouveau townhouse designed by the talented former DHA project manager Angela Dirks, a townhouse that DHA executed for renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, and on our SkyHouse project. The profile closes a tour of the site of our speculative design for the Penthouse at the Woolworth Building, which could provide an ideal opportunity to collaborate with Mark once again.

Living Room at SkyHouse / Photograph by Dean Kaufman for The New Yorker

'Expertise' looked at 1,705 Architects serving New York City and picked the Top 20.....

The national website Expertise looked at 1,705 Architects serving New York City “……scoring architects on more than 25 variables across five categories, and analyzed the results to give you a hand-picked list of the best architects in New York, NY……” and we were pleased to see the office of David Hotson Architect named to the Expertise list of the Top 20 Architects in New York City