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Sandcastle Competition Committee

Co-Chair
Lisa Bench
Gensler
Lisa_bench@gensler.com

Co-Chair
Ashley Hesser
CD Paragon, PLLC
ahesser@cdparagon.com

Staff Liaison
Alex Moreno
alexm@aiahouston.org

2024 Galveston Sandcastle Festival Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 37th AIA Sandcastle Competition!

GOLD BUCKET (1st Place)
Architect Insane Asylum
Ziegler Cooper + Paradigm Construction
Category: Traditional Castle


SILVER SHOVEL (2nd Place)
Mad Garden Par-Tea
PGAL/Manhattan Construction
Category: Nature/Floral/Botanicals

BRONZE SHOVEL (3rd Place)
Dexter’s Conservatory
Kirksey + Tellepsen + MGC
Category: Kidtastsic: Saturday Morning Cartoons

Best Small Team
TADAO ANDUSA
GAGE Architecture
Category: Mythology

Best Team T-Shirt
Sticking With Tradition
Gensler/Harvey
Category: Traditional Castle

Best Team Signage
Mad Garden Par-Tea
PGAL/Manhattan Construction
Category: Nature/Floral/Botanicals

Best Pop Culture: Music/Song Lyrics
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
Powers Brown Architecture, Structure Tone Southwest, Pape Dawson Engineers


Best Kidtastic: Saturday Morning Cartoons
The Flintstones: Galve-stone
Corgan + HP

Best Nature/Floral/Botanicals
The Sandsational Audrey
MOREgroup + Huckabee + IEG + Skanska


Best Mythology
Atlantis Squarepantis
Stantec + Brookstone + PEA

Best Traditional Castle
Sticking With Tradition
Gensler/Harvey

Best Architectural Icon
1940s Air Terminal Museum
Lunartics (Houston Airport Systems)

Most Sustainable Team Presented by 811
Spongebob Sandpants
SandPants (Perkins&Will + Clark Construction)
Category: Kidtastic: Saturday Morning Cartoons


AIA College Challenge
9/11 Memorial & Museum
Prairie View A&M University School of Architecture
Category: Architectural Icon

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