The 2025 HD Awards Project Winners

HYBRID HOSPITALITY
Hartwood, Sunnyvale, California

Steps from the Lawrence Caltrain railway station, the Hartwood residential community is perfectly positioned for commuters headed north to Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Both the lobby and café are social hubs, where guests can camp out on curving banquettes or join Zoom sessions in the private pods situated between a series of soaring trees that reference Sunnyvale’s agricultural past. “During one of the most impactful site meetings early on, we were all standing in the lobby when the contractor brought out the first prototype of our column-wrapped tree branch,” recalls Marcella Burr, design director of Jules Wilson Design Studio. “Up until that point, we had been working in the 3D model and going back and forth with the millworker on proportions and construction methods, but seeing it full-scale in the actual space was something else entirely. In that moment, I could envision how people would feel enveloped by the orchard we had designed.”

Architecture Firm: Studio T-Square, Oakland, California | Interior Design and Purchasing Firm: Jules Wilson Design Studio, San Diego | Owner: Olympic Residential Group | Operator: Bozzuto