NEW YORK—If you visited the Haunch of Venison gallery and found its five exhibition spaces to be crisply and intelligently designed, the American Architecture Awards agree with you. The awards have named the gallery one of its winners for “new, distinguished buildings, interiors, urban planning and landscape architecture projects.”

The gallery, designed by Steven Learner Studio, opened in 2008, part of an art empire that also includes spaces in London and Berlin. The New York gallery features 20,000 square feet of space on the 20th and 21st floors of 1230 Avenue of the Americas, which is part of the Rockefeller Center complex.

The American Architecture Awards are administered by the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies; the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design; and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.

Other art world winners include KieranTimberlake’s sculpture building for Yale University and Oppenheim Architecture’s Art Vault storage center in Miami.