Committees: Design Awards

2001 AIABaltimore Design Award Winners and Jury Comments

DESIGN AWARDS

Architect's Office Ayers/Saint/Gross, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland Ayers/Saint/Gross, Inc. "This project accepts the original industrial scale and patina and adds the least amount of alteration and change. It is a lesson project in outstanding adaptive reuse. The raw surfaces have been left but are not overly lit. What's refined sits next to these surfaces comfortably. This is a remarkable transformation."

Baltimore Transportation Center UNBUILT Greyhound/Baltimore City Baltimore, Maryland Design Collective, Inc. "We congratulate this urban infrastructure investment and the connection of multiple transportation modes. The façade development of this large building mass is extremely well-done and convincing.
London Town Visitor Center + Museum UNBUILT Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation & Parks Edgewater, Maryland Cho Benn Holback & Associates "This is an incredibly intelligent use of the site. The project has a strong conceptual design and is didactic. It explains itself. Although visitor centers are often sites of destruction, this one supports the archaeological site. It stands on the one safe spot."
Roland Park Library UNBUILT City of Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland Alexander Design Studio PC "This expansion has found an alternative. It does not contrast or simulate the original building. With an extraordinary gesture, it creates a couple. With its elegant entrance and terrace, the addition creates a couple both internally and axially. It makes the good historic building even better than it was. "
Michael F. Trostel FAIA Award for Excellence in a Historic Preservation Project
St. Ignatius Church Renovation St. Ignatius Church Baltimore, Maryland Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects "This is a great restoration! We are impressed with the care given to reforming the room. It is sympathetic and contextual with outstanding glazing and insertion. There is clear demonstration of continuing dedication to the goal throughout the project."
Victor Frenkil Award for Innovative Design
St. Paul Place Garage City of Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects "This elegant urban solution works beautifully at this scale. The pedestrian façade and tripling up the size of the windows work well. The brilliant pedestrian ramp gives people a convenient way to get to the street, engage the block, and enter on their own two feet. Most parking garages stand alone – disassociated from their context. This one is a successful urban project first, and a garage second."

School of Professional Studies in Business and Education The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland Ziger/Snead LLP "This project gives a special identity, face, and image to this school of continuing studies. It is a lantern which draws, invites and welcomes people to further study. In its lightness and transparency, it uses the language of Modernism, yet refers to traditional academic buildings. It enlivens the space around it."

Total Office Interiors Baltimore, Maryland Riley & Rohrer "This commercial rehabilitation has to sell, and it does. This is a remarkable use of structure, color, surface, transparency, and reflexivity. It takes a lesson from minimalist artists about light, and is a great showcase for architectural language. As this company reinvents itself, the owners demonstrate their confidence in the next generation."

Van Dyck House Louis and Maureen Van Dyck Baltimore, Maryland Read & company Architects "This is an example of carefully understanding and using the existing house. Small sectional changes are used within the building to create spatial alterations. The language of the stoop creates changes of territory. The landscape is extremely subtle and refined. The project evokes multiple references to modern and vernacular architecture. It is both of its place and not."

HONORABLE MENTION
Legacy Unlimited Wayne-Rocks/Legacy Unlimited Baltimore, Maryland Riley & Rohrer "This minimal and inexpensive suggestion of a corporate office setting gives confidence and dignity to the financial education program. Instead of just turning over a shell to the client, the committed architects made the project successful and complete by selecting the furniture."

New Student Services Center Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects "We appreciate the reuse of valuable existing infrastructure investment in such a successful manner. The reinvigoration of the atrium for this large student center creates great momentum for the entire project."
St. Mary Magdalen Middle School St. Margaret Church Bel Air, Maryland Ziger/Snead LLP "We admire the intention of the designers to make the school building a collection of figurative rooms rather than just a big building. The initial massing is a very successful strategy. The architects and clients are unafraid of a two-story structure which is anti-sprawl. The stairwell is a fabulous public space which translates to dramatic entrance and movement."

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