Station Design Awards 2025

Fort Atkinson, WI, November 9, 2025—Firehouse Magazine announced the winners of its 12th annual Station Design Awards program, which recognizes outstanding architecture and design from fire departments and emergency facilities nationwide.

Gold, Silver and Bronze awards were issued across eight categories of facilities in this prestigious competition: Career 1, Career 2, Co-Located, Combination, Renovations, Satellite, Training Facilities and Volunteer. All 67 participating entries have been published in the November issue of Firehouse Magazine, or they can be viewed by accessing the PDF below at the link below.

Firehouse Editor-in-Chief Peter Matthews said, “In the 12 years since Firehouse has held the Station Design Awards, the efforts to improve living and working areas for firefighters have improved exponentially. Through the Station Design Conference and publication of the Station Design Awards, fire departments are better educated and prepared for their planning process with architects and builders to understand current conditions and prepare for future factors that are critical in the day-to-day operations of every community’s first line of defense while taking care of the people who work there.”

According to Rich Dzierwa, Firehouse Magazine Managing Editor, who supervised the Station Design Awards project, “We believe that the 2025 edition of the Station Design Awards is even more valuable than past versions. The factors by which facilities are evaluated are more delineated, the information that was sought from architects and other design team members was expanded, and the experience of the judging panel was broadened to permit appreciation of elements and best practices of facilities that might pertain to one region but not to another.”

Winners were selected by a panel of seven judges, including fire chiefs and architects who are experienced in recent design and construction.

The 2025 Station Design Award winners are as follows:

Career 1 Fire Station Award Winners (stations larger than 15,000 square feet)

Gold Award—Grand Coulee Dam Fire Station, Grand Coulee, Washington

Architect: TCA Architecture + Planning + Design, Seattle, Washington

Silver Award—UFSA Fire Station No. 253 Eagle Mountain, Eagle Mountain, Utah

Architect: BRW Architects, Dallas, Texas

Bronze Award—Phoenix Fire Station No. 62, Phoenix, Arizona

Architect: Perlman Architects, Phoenix, Arizona

Career 2 Fire Station Award Winners (stations 15,000 square feet and smaller)

Gold Award—South Metro Fire-Rescue Station No. 15, Centennial, Colorado

Architect: OZ Architecture, Denver, Colorado

Silver Award—Thousand Oaks Fire Station No. 34, Thousand Oaks, California

Architect: RRM Design Group, San Luis Obispo, California

Bronze Award—Mountain Brook Fire Station No. 2, Mountain Brook, Alabama

Architect: Barrett Kent Studio, Birmingham, Alabama

Co-Located Award Winner

Bronze Award—Waterstone Fire & EMS Station, Hillsborough, North Carolina

Architect: Stewart-Cooper-Newell Architects, Gastonia, North Carolina

Combination Fire Station Award Winners

Gold Award—Holland Fire Station No. 1, Holland, Michigan

Architect: BRW Architects, Dallas, Texas

Silver Award—Salem Fire and EMS Station, Salem, Utah

Architects: ajc architects, Salt Lake City, Utah

Bronze Award—Andover Fire-Rescue Station 2, Andover, Kansas

Architect: TESSERE, Wichita, Kansas

Renovations Award Winners

Gold Award—Edsall Road Fire Station #26, Springfield, Virginia

Architect: Samaha Associates, Fairfax, Virginia

Silver Award—Beacon Fire Department, Beacon, New York

Architects: Wendel, Albany, New York

Bronze Award—Spotsylvania Fire & Rescue Station 6, Spotsylvania, Virginia

Architect: BKV Group, Chicago, Illinois

Satellite Fire Station Award Winners

Gold Award—Waco Fire Station #15, Waco, Texas

Architect: Martinez Architects, Houston, Texas

Silver Award—Alden A. Mills Point of Pines Fire Station 2, Revere, Massachusetts

Architect: Winter Street Architects, Salem, Massachusetts

Training Facilities Award Winner

Bronze Award—John Ashman Fire Training Complex, Lewisville, Texas

Architect: Martinez Architects, Houston, Texas

Volunteer Fire Station Award Winners

Gold Award—Waconia Fire Station, Waconia, Minnesota

Architect: BKV Group, Chicago, Illinois

Silver Award—Central Islip Fire Department Station 3, Central Islip, New York

Architects: H2M architects + engineers, Melville, New York

Bronze Award—Northwest Fire Station #42, Houston, Texas

Architect: Martinez Architects, Houston, Texas