2025 CRAN Award for Artisan at Ruiz
A heartfelt thank you to the Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) and jury members for recognizing our 2020 project, Artisan at Ruiz, as the winner of the 2025 CRAN Award for a Multi-Family Structure. “Receiving the CRAN Award for an affordable housing project is a clear win for social justice through equitable housing,” notes Jim Bailey, AIA and Senior Principal at Alamo Architects. “It means that our peers see our belief in public-spirited architecture as important and relevant to current socio-economic conditions.”
Jim continues, “With our architectural response at Artisan at Ruiz, we created a visual springboard for further revitalization in San Antonio’s historic West Side. Rooted in neighborhood pride as expressed through community engagement, the design response amplifies cultural values.” Our affordable housing community at Artisan at Ruiz gives form to aspirational goals while acknowledging the blocks of post-war single-family homes that make up the immediate local vernacular.
CRAN Finalist: The Townhomes at Cedar & Pereida
Another recent Alamo project, The Townhomes at Cedar & Pereida, was recognized as a 2025 CRAN Awards Finalist for a Multi-Family Structure. The Townhomes tell a similar story of our commitment to resident stakeholder engagement through the lens of creating density in a historic block of single-family structures. Read about the Townhomes here: https://alamoarchitects.com/project/cedar-street-townhomes/
Both these projects exemplify our willingness to engage in public engagement and City policy, setting up the right conditions for planning and architecture to succeed.
