Wheeler Condos has been awarded the Merit Award for Residential Architecture in this year’s AIA Oklahoma Design Awards.

Located within the growing Wheeler District of Oklahoma City, Wheeler Condos is a three-storey new build condominium scheme providing ground floor and retail office space with four two-to-three bedroom homes above. Large balconies provide protected amenity space and downtown views for each residence.

The judges commented “While multi-family housing is often predictable and formulaic, this project provides an example of a sophisticated, restrained alternative that sits comfortably within its context without pandering to ill-considered notions of contextualism. Three simple gestures – void, glass and brick lattice panels – are modulated like a masonry Rubik’s Cube to create an unexpectedly playful, human-scaled composition, mediating between adjacent commercial and single-family residential scales. Generously scaled balconies lined in wood soften the hard masonry shell and provide contrast at its permeations, animating the street.”