ABOUT
As an award-winning architecture & planning firm, M.W. Steele Group’s portfolio reflects a vision built upon our clients’ needs and our extensive experience. With projects based around the world, we are best known for the contextual quality of our work and the level of sensitivity to site evident in each completed project. We are also recognized for design and planning that is simultaneously innovative and based in reality. Our staff of professionals includes architects, certified planners, and urban designers.
M.W. Steele Group is centered around the communities our buildings serve, and the talented yet humble architects, planners and staff - all of whom we consider family - that make every project possible. This counter-intuitive choice of ours, along with choosing to make urban planning integral to our approach rewarded us in many ways we never expected.
We have had the honor of working with like-minded clients and cemented long-term artistic collaborations with not merely influential people, but thoughtful leaders and mavericks. Like us, these clients believe in contextual architecture. They appreciate that they, and the structures they commission, are part of something greater than themselves and understand that planning and architecture can work to reinforce this concept.
AWARDS
2020
The Beacon
San Diego Housing Federation Ruby Award - CSH Supportive Housing Award
2018
USD Master Plan
Urban Design Merit Award - San Diego American Planning Association
2017
Planning Firm Award
American Planning Association - San Diego Section 2017 Awards
2016
Southeastern/Encanto Community Plan Update
2016
Wesley Palms Retirement Community
National Association Home Builder’s (NAHB) Gold Award winner for the Best of 55+ Independent Living Community ‘On the Boards'
2016
Wesley Palms Retirement Community
Gold Nugget Award of Merit Honors received for the Best Senior Living Community 'On the Boards'
2015
Southeastern/Encanto Community Plan Update
American Planning Association National Achievement Award 2015
2014
Melvin Garb Hillel Center SDSU
USGBC LEED for New Construction: LEED Gold Certified
2014
Wesley Palms Summer House
Silver Achievement Award, Best 50+ Remodeling Project, National Association of Home Builders
2014
Southeastern/Encanto Community Plan Update
American Planning Association's, San Diego Sector's Public Outreach Award
2014
Kalos Apartments
San Diego Housing Federation SDG&E Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Ruby Award 2014 - LEED for Homes Platinum Rating
2013
Kalos Apartments
U.S. Green Building Council for LEED for Homes Outstanding Affordable Project of the Year
2012
City Scene
LEED for Homes Gold Rating
2011
San Diego Naval Training Center Re-Use Plan (Liberty Station)
FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Awards 2011 - Master Plan Category
2007
San Diego Naval Training Center Re-Use Plan (Liberty Station)
San Diego Housing Federation Ruby Award - CSH Supportive Housing Award
2002
Chrome Hearts
AIA Citation for Design 2001; West Hollywood - published in Interior Design Magazine - "Mecca on Melrose" article
2000
Black Mountain Ranch Plan and Design Guidelines
San Diego Chapter American Planning Association Award for Outstanding Planning
2000
Adat Yeshurun Synagogue
AIA San Diego Chapter
1999
San Diego Naval Training Center Re-Use Plan (Liberty Station)
San Diego Chapter American Planning Association Award for Outstanding Planning
1999
Carmel Mountain Ranch Community Library
National AIA/American Library National Association Award of Merit
1998
Mesa College Learning Resource Center
AIA San Diego Chapter Citation; SDG&E Savings by Design Award
1998
Carmel Mountain Ranch Community Library
AIA California Council Award of Merit
1997
Carmel Mountain Ranch Library
SDG&E Savings by Design Award. Cover of Architectural Record 1997
1995
Carmel Mountain Ranch Library
AIA San Diego Chapter Citation
1995
UCSD Pulmonary Medicine Building
AIA San Diego Chapter Citation
1990
Dale Fitzmorris Interior Design and Glass Display Panels
AIA San Diego Chapter Citation and Award of Merit
1989
Steele Residence
San Diego Home/Garden Magazine Home of the Year
1988
Golden Hill Revitalization
San Diego Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects Award
1984
Pardee Center South Court (Office Building)
AIA San Diego Chapter Award of Merit