Roth Sheppard Architects

Modmarket—Roth + Sheppard Architect’s hip new ultra modern restaurant design located at 1600 28th Street in Boulder—just won the top national 2010 Restaurant Design Award in the Café Category. Jeff Sheppard accepted this prestigious award in Los Angeles on June 25th.

This important annual competition, sponsored by the American Institute of Architects’ Los Angeles Chapter and Dwell magazine, recognizes the best new restaurant designs in the United States.  After narrowing down more than 100 entries to a total of 12 restaurants in three categories, the public across the U.S. was asked to vote for their favorite design.

When the voting was tallied on June 22nd, the jury announced that Modmarket not only won the People’s Choice Award, it won the Jury Award in its category as well, taking home two of only six ‘best of’ awards given out in 2010! Even more exciting was the fact that Roth + Sheppard/Modmarket was the only firm/restaurant outside of California or New York to be selected to participate in this competition, as well as the only firm/design to win not one award, but two!

Judges commented that they were especially impressed with the design’s simplicity and economy of moves to achieve such a dramatic space, the positive impact the subtle insertions of wood and organic form had on the minimalist space, and how these moves made an abstract connection to the menu concept (local, organic, fresh, healthy, etc.) using everyday materials in creative and unexpected ways.

A huge thank you to all of you who voted—we could not have experienced this level of national recognition without you!