LJ house, Shanghai hotel: Gold

A La Jolla house, called "Clean Living" due to its low-energy consumption, won a grand award at the Gold Nuggets contest at this year's Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco. Jim Brady Architectural Photography

A La Jolla house, called "Clean Living" due to its low-energy consumption, won a grand award at the Gold Nuggets contest at this year's Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco.

San Diego architect Joseph Wong's design for a Hyatt Regency Hotel in Shanghai won top honors at the Gold Nuggets awards program at the Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco.

A La Jolla project and San Diego architect struck gold at this year's Gold Nuggets awards, announced Thursday at the Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco.

San Diego projects also won 11 merit awards in the contest that drew nearly 600 entries, primarily from builders, developers and architects in western states but also extending to countries bordering the Pacific Ocean.

The local grand awards went to:

Among the 11 merit awards was Arterro La Costa, a housing project by Davidson Communities in Carlsbad, a runnerup as residential project of the year. It was designed by R. Douglas Mansfield and planned by Hunsaker & Associates with the interior by Design Line Interiors. The project also won a merit award for best single-family tract home of more than 4,000 square feet.

The other nine merit awards went to:

The contest judges were Amy Albert, design editor of Builder magazine and editor in chief of Custom Home magazine; San Francisco architect David Baker; Tom Doucette, president of Doucette Homes in Tucson, Ariz.; Florida architect Phil Kean; Boyce Thomson, author of "The New, New Home"; and Laguna Beach architect Bob White.

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LJ house, Shanghai hotel: Gold