NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Cité de l’Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France, designed by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Solange Fabião, has received a 2011 Annual Design Review Award. About the museum, juror Joe Valerio stated, “The thing that is beautiful about this is the idea that it’s about the surf. You take an architectonic form and you make it roll like the ocean, and then the function slips underneath. To connect the surf with the function underneath, you have this lantern, this white, glass lantern that runs through it.” The jury also emphasized the museum’s great quality of light, which “appears to change over the course of the day, and that the differentiated spaces reflect the notion of a wave as water suspended in air.” Selected as winner in the Play Category, the Cité de l’Océan