Awards
ARCHITECT’s 2021: R+D Award
ARCHITECT MAGAZINE: “The jury selected six entries out of 62 in this year’s program, with all winners recognized on the same tier (i.e., no honorable mentions). The jury enjoyed Front Flat’s thoughtful coordination of advanced building systems and, most impressive, your actual realization of such a project.”
BUILD: 6th Annual Construction and Engineering Awards
2021: Best Mixed-Use Developments Design-Build Company, Northeast USA: Onion Flats
Build Magazine
BUILD: 6th Annual Construction and Engineering Awards
2021: Best Sustainable Contemporary Urban Dwelling Northeast USA: FRONT FLATS
Build Magazine
2020 5th Square
The Best Development of the Year, Philadelphia.
Front Flats “Best Development of the Year Award” in Philadelphia
5th Square - Philadelphia’s Urbanist Political Action Committee
2018 Green Building United
Green Building United recognized The Battery as a groundbreaking building in the region.
2018 PHIUS North American Passive Building Project Award
2018 PHIUS Passive House Projects Competition - 1st Place, Market-Rate Multi-Family Housing Award for The Battery.
2018 Design Philadelphia
Design Philadelphia 2nd Place Winner for Best in Design: The Battery: A Net-Zero, Carbon-Neutral, Affordable, Scalable, Replicable Urban Prototype.
2018 ULI Willard Rouse Award
Capital Flats, Phase 1, 2 and 3, and South Point: Onion Flats. “Representing the highest standards of achievement in the development industry and advance the ULI Mission of providing leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.”
2018 Greensgrow Green Innovator Award
This award celebrates significant contributors to the community of food and sustainability in Philadelphia, and Kensington in particular.
2018 Housing NW Arkansas
Onion Flats was chosen as one of five selected proposals from an international housing design competition.
DVGBC 2016 Groundbreaker Award
DVGBC's jury selected the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Authority (PHFA) Project for the 2016 Program Award recognition. The PHFA Project is the result of the organization introducing language into their competitive funding application process which encourages developers to build to Passive House standards.
The PHFA Project began in 2014 when Tim McDonald, approached PHFA with the suggestion that all affordable housing be net-zero energy capable by 2030. Onion Flats had already built Belfield Townhomes, Pennsylvania's first Passive House project, serving formerly homeless families and as a proof of concept that Passive House projects can be built on affordable housing budgets.
2015 PHIUS Passive Building Project Awards
Affordable Housing 2nd place: Belfield Townhomes, Philadelphia, PA
The competition recognized project teams and projects that exemplify best passive building practices and accelerate adoption of passive building in North America.
GPCC Excellence Award
Onion Flats: 2014 Sustainable Business of the Year
First annual award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence.
2013 AIA Honor Award: Belfield Townhomes
FIRST Certified Passiv Haus in Pennsylvania. The project involves the development, design and construction of the Belfield Townhomes for the Raise of Hope (ROH) organization in Philadelphia. The townhomes are each three stories, 1920 sf, have three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a living room, kitchen and office. Parking for one vehicle will be on site for each home and accessed from the rear. The intention of this project is for it to be a model of affordable and sustainable building for the City of Philadelphia. They are designed to be high performance buildings, to achieve Passiv Haus standards and to approach zero-energy status.
Onion Flats hopes that this project will demonstrate the economic development feasibility of a highly sustainable buildings for the affordable housing market.
The Big Vision Awards
Philadelphia City Paper 2012 BIG VISION Awards: Sustainability and Design.
2011 Good Green Design Award
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, for Thin Flats.
Good Green Design’s goal is a to bestow international recognition on those outstanding projects that have forwarded exceptional thinking and creativity for a healthier universe.
ULI 2010 Awards for Excellence
Urban Land Institute 2010 Awards for Excellence: Thin Flats
The Global Awards for Excellence identify the five projects worldwide each year that represent workable, livable, and sustainable models for future development.
2009 Penn Future Green Building Leader Award
Onion Flats chosen as a leader in building Pennsylvania’s renewable energy.
PennFuture Awards Luncheons to celebrate the people, businesses and institutions who blaze the trail toward a cleaner and healthier Pennsylvania.
2009 Philadelphia Sustainability Award
Thin Flats chosen by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council as a Leader in the sustainable future of Philadelphia.
2009 AIA Honor Award
Presented to Onion Flats Architecture for the development of Thin Flats.
2009 NAHB National Green Building Awards Competition
Thin Flats was selected as the 2009 Project of the Year - Multifamily Condominium.
2009 Innovative Green Homes, Architectural Competition
Onion Flats’ entry entitled “TED” was one of three projects chosen through this national competition to design a sustainable and affordable single family home for the Near Westside neighborhood of Syracuse. The design could not exceed a total cost of $150,000.00 to build. Competition coordinated and managed by Syracuse University School of Architecture, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environment and Energy Systems and Home Headquarters Inc.
2008 Emerging Voices Award
The Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices lecture series and award spotlights individuals and firms with a distinct design voice that has the potential to influence the discipline of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Since 1982, the juried series has featured architects and designers from throughout North America who have a significant body of realized work that not only represents the best of its kind, but also creatively addresses larger issues of architecture, landscape, and the built environment.
2007 Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection
$700,000 Grant through the Growing Greener II Bond Initiative to be used for the 260KW photovoltaic panel system on Stable Flats.
2005 Philadelphia Water Department
Award of Excellence for Creative Storm Water Management Practices, recognizing Rag Flats.