Gold Nugget Awards

2023 Gold Nugget Awards

2023 Gold Nugget Awards

Check out the homes and communities of the year as well as a selection of the grand winners in the residential design categories.

2022 Home of the Year: Vitality Collection in Central Park, Denver

2022 Gold Nugget Awards

From roughly 600 entries, jurors selected grand and merit winners in over 60 categories, including single-family production, interior design, and custom homes.

2021 Home of the Year: Crocker Village – Alley Row Collection, Sacramento, California

2021 Gold Nugget Awards

From more than 600 entries, the judges selected grand and merit winners in categories including single-family, multifamily, and custom residential.

2020 Home of the Year: Plan 2YC at The Villas at Seven Desert Mountain, Scottsdale, Ariz.

2020 Gold Nugget Awards

From more than 550 entries, the judges selected grand and merit winners in categories including single-family, multifamily, and custom residential.

2019 Home of the Year: Beacon Plan 1, Beaumont, Calif.

2019 Gold Nugget Awards

From more than 600 entries, the judges selected grand and merit winners in categories including single-family, multifamily, and custom residential.

2018 Gold Nugget Awards

2018 Gold Nugget Awards

From more than 700 entries, the judges selected Grand and Merit winners in categories including single-family, multifamily, and custom residential.

2017 Best Custom Home Under 4,000 Square Feet—Pistachio Grove, Merced, Calif. Architect: R. Douglas Mansfield Architect

2017 Gold Nugget Awards

From 635 U.S. and international entries, the judges selected a final round of Grand- and Merit-worthy projects in categories including single-family, multifamily, and custom residential, as well as mixed-use and commercial designs.

Palm Springs House, Booth Hansen, Palm Springs, Calif.

2016 Gold Nugget Awards

The judges praised creative approaches to classic concepts and the depth of detail executed in the winning projects.

The Estates at Del Sur – Plan 2, San Diego, Calif.

2015 Gold Nugget Awards

Trends especially prominent in this year’s projects include integrated, open designs that favor unexpected materials, sophisticated lighting, and striking, thoughtful details.

2014 Gold Nugget Awards

2014 Gold Nugget Awards

The affordable housing category was one of the most robust of all in this year's Gold Nugget Awards competition, as shown by these three trend-setting projects.

2013 Gold Nugget Awards

2013 Gold Nugget Awards

Two of the winners of the 2013 Gold Nugget Awards are hard proof that production builders are taking cues from custom builders. In so doing, they're upping the game.

2012 Gold Nugget Awards

2012 Gold Nugget Awards

Five award-winning homes follow a variety of paths to sustainability.

2011 Gold Nugget Awards

2011 Gold Nugget Awards

This year's winners parlay clean lines and natural materials into spaces great and small.

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2010 Gold Nugget Awards

No design begins on a blank canvas. There are always constraints. And, in many cases, the tougher the parameters, the better the solution.

2009 Gold Nugget Awards

2009 Gold Nugget Awards

Annual competition honoring architecture in the Western U.S. gives top prizes for urban revitalization, green building, affordability, and small-scale luxury

2008 Gold Nugget Awards

2008 Gold Nugget Awards

Projects with both beauty and brains win the highest accolades in the 2008 Gold Nugget Awards competition.

IT'S ALL HERE: The 2007 Home of the Year, a brave addition to the urban mix at Playa Vista  in Los Angeles, lives large on a compact lot and doesn't skimp on outdoor  space.

2007 Gold Nugget Awards

They are greenfields, brownfields, grayfields, and desert outposts. The 44th annual Gold Nugget Awards celebrate Western projects that transcend the norm and reshape the housing landscape as we know it.

PATIO DADDY-O: Hard angles and sleek curves combine to create dynamic, open living spaces in the 2006 home of the year, a nod to mid-mod in Palm Springs, Calif.

2006 Gold Nugget Awards

This year's Gold Nugget Awards celebrate projects that are at once singular in their execution and gracefully integrated with their surroundings.

LIVING ALFRESCO: The 2005 home of the year is an extrovert. Multiple outdoor courts and covered loggias in Plan One of the Baywood Collection at Santaluz serve as “connective tissue” as well as primary living spaces.

2005 Gold Nugget Awards

This year's Gold Nugget Awards celebrate projects that are at once singular in their execution and gracefully integrated with their surroundings.

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