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The new addition closely matches the original building to give the impression that the entire structure was built all at once. The simple massing of the structure was extended and the shed dormer was extended on the rear elevation. A second tower element was added to the new wing to echo the existing tower.

Materials were matched, too, including the rough stone exterior, heavy-timbered wood posts with brackets for the porches, and thick shingle roof tiles resembling slate. Inside, details such as wood flooring, door and window trim, and natural-textured three-coat plaster walls blend with their older counterparts.

The multifamily residential award went to Almeria Row in Coral Gables, Florida, a project that technically consists of a series of attached single-family residences.

In designing the ten-unit "fee simple" townhouse development, de la Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists, Inc. drew on the townhouse form common in London and New York City, and cited the work of architect Mott Schmidt and houses in the Moorish districts of Seville, Spain, as inspiration. The architects incorporated courtyards in an attempt to adapt a more northern-European building type to a Mediterranean climate.

Although the original Coral Gables master plan by George E. Merrick included the townhouse type, the construction of Almeria Row required a change in the zoning code to reduce setback requirements for single-family residences and reduce by half the minimum lot size for residential units.

David Jones Architects received the award for new residential design and construction under 5,000 square feet (465 square meters) for a beachfront home in Dewey Beach, Delaware, inspired by the architecture of H.H. Richardson. The shingle-style house presents two quite different facades. A broad gable with a screened porch faces the beach, and a vertical tower-gable composition faces the street. Trim bands and multipaned windows add lively detail.

Other award winners in the residential category were Andrea Pacciani Architect, for the restoration of Casa Cocconi, a country house in Parma, Italy, and Wadia Associates, for The Gardens at Gitanjali in New Canaan, Connecticut.

The Palladio Awards were presented at a ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 12, 2008, as part of the Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference.

The 2008 Palladio Awards jury included Marianne Cusato, principal, Marianne Cusato Associates and Cusato Cottages, LLC; Victor Deupi, director of education, Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America; Clem Labine, founder, Traditional Building, Period Homes, and The Old-House Journal; Mark Thaler, principal, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering P.C.; and John Tittmann, principal, Albert, Righter & Tittmann Architects, Inc.   >>>

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