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 will be published in the November issue of Firehouse Magazine and online at Firehouse.com/stations.
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