The winners of the 2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards were announced last week at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo.

Zerofootprint's Re-Skinning Awards showcase excellence in holistic retrofitting projects from around the world. The goal of the awards is to promote the importance of improving our older, existing stock of urban buildings to fight climate change. This year competition was run in partnership with the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.
 
The Palms, a house in Venice, California designed by Daly Genik Architects, won the prize for Best Overall Project 2011. The most notable feature of The Palms is a sheer white exoskeleton made from locally sourced recycled steel, which transformed the look of the house and expanded the outdoor living space without increasing the site’s footprint.

Winners were chosen by a jury of experts in architecture, design, and engineering, including:

• John Patkau, Canadian architect 
• Edward Mazria, Architecture 2030 Challenge founder
• Thomas Auer, energy efficient building design expert
• Michael Ra, Front Inc. founding partner
• Michelle Addington, Yale Architecture professor
• Dana Cuff, UCLA Architecture professor and Founding Director of sustainable urban design think tank CityLAB

For more information, including the full list of winners and finalists, please visit  Zerofootprint's website.