The CDAs honor the best commercial design projects built in Wisconsin by local companies.

Early cancer detection is the mission of Exact Sciences Corp. Transforming an obsolete office building into an innovative showcase was the mission of a design team that was tasked with shaping the company’s 265,000-square-foot Discovery Campus.

The new headquarters was created in conjunction with a 260,000-square-foot production facility, and they combined to create a local landmark and capture first place in the category of Best New Development–Office.

Designers tout the adaptability and flexibility of Gundersen Health System’s new 65,000-square-foot, critical-access hospital, and that’s no minor point as health care strives to be both cost efficient and care effective.

A powerhouse of a project for its adaptive reuse, Beloit College’s transformation of a 100-year-old, decommissioned, coal-fired power plant has received yet another honor — a CDA award — for the meticulous reimagining of old industrial space.

The structure, which was built in 1871 and required a complete renovation, is home to the Wisconsin English as a Second Language School and serves business executives and students from all over the world who want to improve their language skills for academic, personal, or professional reasons.

The Grove not only serves the purpose of affordable housing, it features a purposeful architectural design as well. A two-building complex, it provides affordable rental housing in a mixed-use development that repurposes a former strip-mall property.

More than one year since the opening of Garver Feed Mill, remnants of the renovated building are still winning awards. Case in point: Garver Lounge.

Summit’s goal for its Mount Horeb branch was a contemporary design with dynamic trapezoidal shapes and single sloped roof forms with sloping eaves, but Mount Horeb’s design covenants required a traditional gable roof form.

The International Crane Foundation is billed as the only place on Earth where you can see all 15 of the world’s crane species.