The Boston Preservation Alliance (BPA) has released its annual preservation awards, highlighting several projects in the city center as well as a shifting focus away from exclusively brick-and-mortar considerations.

The BPA released its 2022 Preservation Awards on June 2, selecting six preservation projects as the best the city has to offer.

The honors went to the Landmark Center, the 54th Regiment Memorial across from the State House, the Christian Science Plaza and the SoWa Power Station, along with two others further afield.

This year’s contest put emphasis on elements not always valued in preservation rankings, such as online narratives, public access and environmental concerns.

“The awards are both to highlight important preservation efforts in the city and to inspire others to do similar projects,” said Alison Frazee, executive director of the BPA.

“Our awards vary widely.

We’ve awarded new construction developments in historical neighborhoods, private homeowners, books, websites. Anything that promotes historic preservation, that brings people in. We want to recognize any good work around preservation.”

The Christian Science Plaza was built in the 1970s, but still passed muster by being the largest publicly available private area in the city, now more public than ever and with improved environmental standards. That’s indicative of a wider trend within the BPA.

The nonprofit is trying to embrace a broader idea of what preservation means in an era of online integration and rising temperatures. Frazee said there’s a growing understanding that environmentalism is critical to preservation work.

“We’re working very closely with advocates for the environment, for sustainability and affordability,” she said.

“The greenest building is the one that already exists, so we’re really pushing the message that building reuse is climate action. We see so much demolition in Boston. We want to see more people kept in their neighborhoods and homes instead of tearing them down and building more expensive units.”

This marks the 34th year the BPA has released its annual awards. The organization also hosts an annual event commemorating the winners that usually proves to be its largest fundraiser of the year.

2022’s commemorative event will be held in late October at the Speedway Complex, one of the two winners outside the city center.

The delay gives time for the BPA to put together short documentary videos about each location and its caretakers.

“Typically, we get around 20 nominations a year, and we’re very selective so that we have the bandwidth to really highlight the recipients. In the last few years our videos have been these wonderfully produced short videos.

Drone footage, photography, interviews. We want to show what the project is all about and the impact it has on the community,” said Frazee.