Awards & Recognition

2026

Kevin Wilkes Makes Appearance on Princeton Podcast with Mark Freda

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2024

After Seven Years of Planning and Construction, Triumph Restaurant & Brewery is Now Open

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Reconstruction of Paul Robeson's Princeton Childhood Home Heads to the Finish Line

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2020

Princeton Design Guild Wins Master Design Award

  • Princeton Design Guild has been named winner of the 42nd Annual Qualified Remodeler Master Design Awards Contest. PDG was awarded gold for an addition and renovation of a mid-Century Modern home on Drakes Corner Road in Princeton, NJ.

35th Anniversary for Princeton Design Guild

  • DESIGN PLUS BUILD: “We’re an architectural design-build company, and we have on-site product capacity. We fabricate every piece here on-site. All the woodworking and metalwork is done right here.”
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2019

Inducted into the Remodeling Big 50

  • The REMODELING Big50 annually inducts 50 companies from across America that have met exceptionally high standards for professionalism and integrity through exemplary business practices, craftsmanship, impact in their community, and industry recognition.

2017

The Voice of Real Estate

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2015

Historical Society of Princeton House Tour

2013

The Goldberg Lectures in Architecture Series

2010

Eddie C. Moore Award

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2008

National Institute of Health Fellow's Retreat - Keynote Speaker

Labor of Love: An Interview With Architect Kevin Wilkes

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2006

Outstanding Implementation - Short Term Project

  • American Planning Association / New Jersey Chapter “Quark Park”, Princeton, NJ

“Blissful Bathrooms”

  • Design NJ, August/September 2006

“Art, Science Thrive in Garden”

  • The Trenton Times, Living Section, September 5, 2006

Design Merit Award

  • American Institute of Architects / New Jersey Chapter “Quark Park”, Princeton, NJ

“It’s a Lot of Inspiration”

  • The Sunday Star-Ledger, Section One

“Science In Bloom”

  • U.S. 1, August 23, 2006

“Science Come to Life in a Park Full of Surprises”

  • The New York Times, Sunday, October 22, 2006

“Quark Park Makes its Debut”

  • The Princeton Packet, September 12, 2006

“Germinating Ideas”

  • Time Off, August 11-20, 2006

2005

AIA NJ Growth Award, Creative Initiative

  • New Jersey Department of Community Affairs “Writers Block”, Princeton, NJ

Remembrance Fountain

  • Time Off – Packet Publications, September 30, 2005

Literary Landscape

  • Riprap Landscape Architecture, May 2005

2004

Honor Award for Built Project

  • American Institute of Architects / New Jersey Chapter “Writers Block”, Princeton, NJ

Writer's Block

  • Planning Magazine, December 2004

Kitchens & Baths

  • Fine Homebuilding, Winter 2004

Princeton’s Follies

  • Time Off - Packet Publications, August 13-22, 2004

Collections For The Cook

  • Design NJ, February/March 2004

Writer's Block

  • Architectural Record, October 2004

Beautiful Bathrooms

  • Design NJ, August/September 2004

Suite Success

  • Design NJ, June/July 2004

2003

Building a Grand Veranda

  • Best of Fine Homebuilding

Grown-up Getaways

  • Design NJ, October/November 2003

Change of Face

  • Design NJ, August/September 2003

2001

For the Love of Art

  • Design NJ, Spring Issue 2001, pp. 65-70

2000

Best of the Best - Excellence Award

  • The Frog and the Peach Restaurant” Downtown New Jersey, Inc.

Building a Grand Veranda

  • Fine Homebuilding, July 2000

1990s

Evolution of an Ideal: The Princeton Design Guild

  • American Institute of Architects / New Jersey Chapter “Writers Block”, Princeton, NJ

Kitchen Ideas That Work

  • Kitchen and Bath Business, June 1998

Finishing Touches

  • Fine Homebuilding Annual Issue on Houses, Summer 1998

A New Jersey Tea House

  • Fine Homebuilding, June-July 1997

Finalist, Competition for Architectural Services

  • Edison National Historic Site, Visitor Center

1980s

Kevin Wilkes: Double Life of a Princeton Prefab

  • Architectural Digest, April 1989, pp. 102-106

Fellowship, Design Arts/Architecture

  • New Jersey State Council on the Arts

Wilkes Awarded Grant to Design Housing

  • Princeton Packet, 29 July, 1988, Front page

Modest Mansions: Design Ideas for Luxurious Living in Less Space

  • By Donald Prowler AIA, Rodale Press

Young Architect Turns a Nightmare to a Dream House

  • Trenton Times, Living Section, 8 October, Front page

Young Architects Competition, Honorable Mention

  • Architectural League of New York

Third Place Winner

  • Newport News Cultural Arts Pavilion, Kelbaugh + Lee Architects