ICAA Rocky Mountain Announces 2025 Benedict Award Winners
Photos courtesy of award winners
The Rocky Mountain chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art recently announced the winners of their biennial Jacques Benedict awards, celebrating excellence in classical architecture.
The winners were announced and honored at a gala on Sept. 19 at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Colorado. Read on for more about the winning projects, designers, and architects.
The Benedict awards are named after Jacques Benedict (1879-1947), a prominent Denver architect whose nearly 80 Beaux Arts-style buildings in the Rocky Mountain region continue to shape the region's architectural beauty. Benedict studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, moved to Denver in 1909, and contributed to much of the area's classical vernacular, designing homes, churches, and academic and public buildings.
Chosen every other year, the Benedict award winners exemplify achievement in traditional and classical craftsmanship and design throughout the Rocky Mountain region. The awards recognize today’s contemporary architects, interior designers, builders, craftsman, artisans, students, and patrons who continue to shape the region's classical legacy, in much the same way Jacques Benedict did.
Read on for the 2025 Jacques Benedict award winners.
Ruard Veltman Architecture & Interiors: Mountain Retreat
Beaver Creek, Colorado
Architecture—More Than 5,000 Square Feet
Vera Iconica Architecture: Snow Stone
Jackson, Wyoming
Architecture—More Than 5,000 Square Feet (Certificate of Merit)
Suzanne Kasler Interiors: Daybreak
Beaver Creek, Colorado
Interior Design—Residential
Vera Iconica Architecture: Historic Wyoming Ranch
Cora, Wyoming
Historic Preservation
Ekman Design Studio: Hoyt Tudor
Denver, Colorado
Historic Preservation (Certificate of Merit)
Living Design Studios, Inc.: Classical Mountain Elegance
Vail, Colorado
Artisanship
Emily Minton Redfield: The Prado Series
Denver, Colorado
Artisanship (Certificate of Merit in Fine Arts Excellence)
Sean Gaouette: Regenerative Conservation: Centering Preservation Philosophy Within Urban Planning Policy
Denver, Colorado—University of Notre Dame
Student
Madison Mauch: Arapahoe Basin Lodge: A Mountain Refuge Rooted in Place
University of Notre Dame
Student
Eric Mandil: Founder and Managing Principal, Mandil Inc.
Board of Directors
The Clinton Family Fund Medal
David Tryba: Founding Principal, Tryba Architects
Board of Directors
Robert & Judi Newman Professional Honor
Santiago Aguilera Cepeda: Student, University of Colorado Denver
Board of Directors