Photo credit Photo by Matthew Neimann. Read the project case study here.
We are delighted to announce that our project, 100 Labor, is the winner of the 2026 AIA-SA Residential Design Award for a Multifamily Structure. Program sponsor, the Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN), promotes custom residential practice nationally. The group partners each year with AIA San Antonio to showcase the outstanding residential architecture of the local chapter through a juried awards program.
This acknowledgement is especially meaningful for our multidisciplinary planning and housing team, given that our office has been actively involved in shaping planning and architectural policy for the surrounding neighborhoods for more than two decades. Some key things to know about 100 Labor as a development project:
In the crosscurrent of change | 100 Labor is located between two distinct urban zones in central San Antonio, shaped by two waves of radically destructive urban renewal – post-WWII subsidized City housing development, and the 1960s development of Hemisfair. 100 Labor’s 4-story mass conforms to the mixed-use neighborhood master plan that our office has helped to develop, since 1997.
At a pivotal gateway | The project is situated on both sides of the intersection of Labor Street and César Chávez Boulevard, forming a gateway into the historic Lavaca neighborhood. Across the boulevard sits the fairgrounds of Hemisfair’68, now being actively redeveloped with parks, mixed-use development, convention center buildings, hotels, and a proposed new arena for the San Antonio Spurs.
Returning affordable housing to the neighborhood | Developed by the San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA), 100 Labor’s innovative financing structure pairs private capital with project-based Housing Choice vouchers such that the 80% affordable market rate units subsidize the 20% deep-targeted affordable units.
See our Awards presentation here.
