Best in American Living Awards

Mark & Tiffany Candelaria traveled to Orlando last week to attend the 2026 NAHB International Builders’ Show® (IBS) and to receive a few awards at the Best In American Living Awards ceremony!

This is the largest Builders’ Show with over 81k building professionals and nearly 2k exhibitors. Over the three days we had the chance to visit many of the companies booth’s we currently work with and learn about many new companies and products as well!

The culminating event was the BALA Awards celebrating the best in multi-family and custom home building and design across North America. Candelaria Design took home Gold for Best Primary Suite and Silver for two homes in the Best Custom Home 10,000+ sf categories! It was a great night networking with other top builders and architects and showing off our team’s hard work - congrats to all!

Watch our videos on Instagram & facebook @candelariadesign to see the show and awards ceremony.

Modern Luxury Interiors Design 9 Awards

Candelaria Design received 3 awards at the third annual Design 9 Awards last night hosted by Modern Luxury Interiors! Our winning projects were Best Outdoor Space, Best Traditional Home and Best Bathroom and they are featured in the Nov/Dec issue below.

Best Outdoor Space

Best Traditional Home

Iconic Design Awards 2025

Our team was honored to win 8 Iconic Awards for 3 of our recent custom home projects in the Interior & Architecture categories. The event was a beautiful soiree coordinated by Publisher Renee Dee at The Scottsdale Performing Arts Center.

Modern Luxury Scottsdale: Power Players

NAHB International Builders Show & 3 BALA Awards

Mark spent a few days in Las Vegas last week to attend the 2025 NAHB International Builders’ Show® (IBS) and to receive a few awards at the Best In American Living Awards ceremony!

This year was the largest Builders’ Show in 17 years, with over 81k building professionals and 1.8k exhibitors. The Convention Center spans 2,500,000 sqft. and Mark racked up over 40,000 steps in three days! Mark would like to send a special thank you to Tim Walker of Marvin Windows for providing him a ticket to the convention. 

The culminating event was the BALA Awards celebrating the best in home building and design across North America. Candelaria Design took home Gold for Best Specialty Room and Best Primary Suite and Silver for Best Custom Home 7,000-10,000 sqft!! Such a fun night networking with other top architects and showing off our team’s hard work!

Luxe: Epic Design & Gold List

We are honored to be recognized once agin by Luxe Magazine as an Industry Insider and Epic Designer in their recent issues. View our features below.

Modern Luxury Interiors Scottsdale ~ Design 9 Issue

We have been names one of nine winners in the second annual Design 9 Awards by Modern Luxury Interiors Scottsdale Magazine! Our Santa Barbara inspired home set on 5 acres in Paradise Valley won for Best Outdoor Living and features a pool, spa, animal barn, pond, putting green, garden, covered patios and more. Click below to view the digital issue.

Luxe Magazine - Casa Ibiza

This unique home in N. Scottsdale’s Silverleaf Estates blends the ethos and architecture of the Mediterranean island of Ibiza with the Sonoran Desert that surrounds it. Read more about the design process in Luxe Arizona’s September/October 2024 issue.

Iconic Design Awards 2024

Iconic Life Magazine's 2nd Annual Iconic Design Awards Ceremony took place last weekend at Scottsdale Center for the Arts SMOCA. Both of our submissions won in the Best Transitional Custom Home over 7,500 sf category!

The Iconic award went to our 19,000sf modern Italian Villa in the heart of Paradise Valley. The Gold Award went to our Santa Barbara/Spanish Colonial Revival style ranch home set on 5 acres, also in the heart of Paradise Valley.

Our projects also won Silver in On the Boards more than 7,500sf for a Kitchen design and the Iconic Award for Best Dining Room for our Joshua Tree Spec home in PV.

Iconic Life: A Quarter Century of Candelaria Design

The local luxury magazine Iconic Life has featured a beautiful spread in their September issue showcasing some of our more recent projects and celebrating our 25th Anniversary. Thank you for your partnership and support as well Iconic Team!

Five Iconic Design Awards

Five Candelaria Design projects received awards in various categories at the inaugural Iconic Awards this winter!

Luxe Magazine: PV "Pet-Project" Cover Feature

This exquisite Santa-Barbara-style home set on 5 acres in PV was a very special "pet-project" for the homeowners. While the young couple don't yet have kids, they do have 4 dogs, goats, chickens, ducks and geese and are actively involved in a fostering neglected pregnant dogs! Together Mark C & Meredith Thomson, along with interior designer Wendy Black, contractor John Schultz and landscape designer Jeff Berghoff, created a home for the whole menagerie that was beautiful, comfortable and eclectic - just want the clients wanted. See more on our Instagram page @candelariadesign and in Luxe’s Nov/Dec issue on newsstands now!

Luxe Video Interview on Fitzgerald's French Estate

Luxe Magazine interviews principals Mark Candelaria & Meredith Thomson about this incredible French Manor estate we designed for former AZ Cardinal Larry Fitzgerald.

“Mark takes an artist’s approach to his profession. He is a sculptor who converts visions and ideas onto a set of drawings that evolve into a three-dimensional structure—a home. He performs his craft with intuition and precision, while emphasizing the principles of classical form and functionality.” - Larry Fitzgerald

Luxe May/June "Deep Roots"

This recently completed "Modern Masterpiece" we designed with Anita Lang of IMI Design and built by Brimley Development is featured in this month's Luxe Magazine. The design goal for this project was to create a generational, family-oriented home that would reflect both the desert and the homeowners’ respective histories in Guatemala and Michigan.

Luxe Cover Feature January 2023

Starting the year off strong with one of our homes on the cover of Luxe Magazine! This cover article features an interior refresh of a Spanish Colonial style home Mark Candelaria designed back in 2005 in PV!

“There’s so much soul in Mark’s architecture, and we wanted to keep that: plasterwork; the richness of the Saltillo tiles, wood and iron details; the brick staircase; the arches," said designer Lauren Wallace. While there weren’t many structural changes needed, the team “updated the lighting, countertops, wall tile and paint, and cleaned up some of the more ornate detailing throughout the residence,” general contractor Frank DiMaggio notes. ⁠

Sources for Design Magazine: Icons Mark & Isabel Candelaria

Husband & wife Mark & Isabel are featured in the 35th issue of Sources for Design Magazine’s Icon Issue! They will be honored along with 7 other design teams for their residential remodel of a dated Paradise Valley home at the Magazine’s Premier Party September 7th in Scottsdale. Take a look at the beautiful feature below.

Home Builder Digest's 19 Best Residential Architects in Arizona 2021

A Family of Four builds a Forever Home in Arcadia

A family of four designed their fairytale family home with Architects Mark Candelaria & Vivian Ayala, Interior Designers DeCesare Design Group and Landscapers Refined Gardens. The couple wanted to keep the home relatively small so it would be cozy and manageable and maximize the outdoor space for their two young boys. They wanted the exterior of their home to fit in with the neighborhood’s modern farmhouse/modern ranch style, but wanted an English cottage flair, inside they wanted a contemporary casual feel. View the article below to see more and read more about this family’s story and design process.

3D Printed Home - First Ever in United States

The custom, single-story home, currently under construction on a lot owned by the City of Tempe, combines 3D printing and traditional construction to create an innovative model for the future: a scalable, cost-effective homeownership solution to address the affordable housing crisis facing communities nationwide.

Designed by the world-renowned team at Candelaria Design, the new 3D-printed home project is a single-family home with three bedrooms, and two baths. The livable space is 1,738 square feet, and the total project is 2,433 square feet. 70 – 80% of the home is 3D printed, including all internal and external walls. The remainder of the house is a traditional build.

“This is really a moonshot opportunity for Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona,” said Jason Barlow, President and CEO of Habitat Central Arizona. “When we consider the housing issues facing Arizona, the need for affordable homeownership solutions becomes clear. If we can deliver decent, affordable, more energy-efficient homes at less cost, in less time and with less waste, we think that could be a real game-changer. Think of the implications.”

The home has received lots of local and national coverage and is expected to be read for move in late October, 2021.

An All-Star Team Imagines a Well-Tailored Home for a Football Great

This magnificent home has had us all patiently waiting for it’s unveiling to the public in Luxe Magazine’s May 2021 issue…and the day has finally arrived! We are so proud to showcase this legendary home we designed for a legendary man, Larry Fitzgerald. Click the button below to see more of this home and read more about the designers, the process and why this home is already legendary just a year after completion.