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2002 AIABaltimore Design Award Winners and Jury Comments
SAILWINDS VISITORS CENTER “This building’s clear form stands alone while it respects its environment. The beautiful plan is an abstract image in a sustainable modern language which integrates the nautical theme of sail and wind. There is a dialogue between the circular amphitheatre and the outer walkway, and a nuance between the form and the landscape. The lighting is fabulous.” DESIGN AWARDS BLAUSTEIN PHILANTHROPIC GROUP “This project respectfully utilizes the architecture of the existing building to its best advantage. The luminescent workspace with uplifting lighting is extremely clear, articulate, and quiet. Although the details are current and fresh, the waffle slab gives the project a timeless quality.” CAMPUS MASTER PLAN “This is an elegant reinforcement of the original McKim, Mead & White plan. By maintaining its historic precepts, it gives new clarity while restoring the ground plan of the campus for the students and faculty. The open diagram respects the original grid system, reintroduces courtyard planning and the green flow so it again dominates the campus plan. This is an antidote to Joni Mitchell’s lament on paving paradise to put up a parking lot.” EAST SIDE MAINTENANCE YARD “Incredible attention has been applied to utilitarian buildings on a previously industrial site. The large, important, and functional program has been streamlined and beautified. Although it is austere, modest, and honest, the program keeps within its environment, as the project becomes elegant, eloquent, and clean. There is an expressive quality and rigor to the internal workings.” FENWICK ISLAND BEACH HOUSE “This clear, succinct, well-executed Modernist house has caught the atmosphere of the place where it’s located. While beautifully detailed to let in the sky and ocean, the highway elevation suggests it is unafraid of its site. The building works well with both.” LYRIC OPERA STAGEHOUSE EXPANSION – UNBUILT “This incredibly innovative and audacious solution to a historic renovation has economic payback for the theatre by keeping it open during construction. The brilliant architectural system and catenary structure express the inner workings of the theatre on the exterior while adding to the skyline of the city. Suspended over the sidewalk, it articulates a loggia.”
MARYLAND STATE POLICE FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORY – UNBUILT “This collision of an industrial building type with a civic program is handled well with a great site plan. The design is not self-conscious. It creates a protected and harbored enclave with an expandable systems building. Straightforward and simple, there is a full disclosure aspect to the openness of design which is appropriate to a forensic laboratory.”
Michael F. Trostel FAIA Award for Excellence in a Historic Preservation Project MUSEUM ENTRY AND GALLERIES--UNBUILT “This project implies that the fabric of the city has historical integrity. The new piece integrates a series of diverse, historic archetypes into a new landmark scale. Dignified, new, and fresh interventions create cohesion. The museum should follow every detail of the plan which would be worthy of the Grand Design Award when built.”
HONORABLE MENTION ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS “It’s great to see a corporate work have a sustainable agenda. The good plan offers a nice showcase for materials, and the good steel detailing.”
THE BROWN CENTER – UNBUILT “This project desires to bring the art school into interaction with architectural discourse, and to give it an international address. Its sculptural identity will find meaning in the program of the art school. The building’s interruption of its banal surroundings symbolizes the artist in society.” CAMPUS MASTER PLAN “This is another paradise found – returning a parking lot to pedestrian space. The reclamation of territory in its existing form without changing it is direct and efficient, clear and well-done. This is a tactical, not design, approach. The powerful social idea of design has won the war for public space – won a quadrangle.”
CENTER FOR AQUATIC LIFE AND CONSERVATION--UNBUILT “These appropriately sustainable buildings demonstrate their environmental concern for the necessary reuse of brownfields. This informed site plan knows its own sphere of influence very well, and proves that a waterfront program can still achieve a civic response with long-span structures which are environmentally-sensitive. Great bubbles!”
CORPORATE OFFICES FOR XAVIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, INC. “This nicely-detailed project respects the existing structure and uses it as the point of departure for inspiration.”
EUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE AND CULTURAL CENTER “This project has the elan and whimsy of Eubie Blake himself. With sensitive distinction between what is new and existing, it brings new dignity and spirit to the old façade. This intervention has created an incredibly flexible series of spaces. The sculpture garden will be very important to the project.”
HARBOR TUNNEL MAINTENANCE BUILDING – UNBUILT “This fine industrial project is straightforward and to the point. There is economy of means in the building program, design, execution, and presentation.”
MADSTONE FILMS – UNBUILT “This urban façade creates an intimate lobby area that connects a series of interior spaces. But most importantly, it reinforces the block’s sight line condition to create a high urban space in the tradition of the colorful painted screens of certain Baltimore neighborhoods. The spatial area of the interior is well-reflected on the façade which implies a sense of changing transparent layers, celluloid and film.”
MARIKLE CHAPEL RENOVATION “Thank God they restored it! This European approach to restoration, bringing the interior back to its authentic character, is courageous and admirable. The plasterwork is gorgeous. This is a great return of a civic room with restraint.”
THE PARK SCHOOL “This is a good gymnasium with a beautiful site relationship. The barnlike structure relates effectively to the pond and landscape. The project appropriately articulates the exposed structural system.”
SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL--UNBUILT “It is important that architects dream up the necessity for commemorative civic works to demonstrate their consciousness of history. This true architectural idea is visionary and advocatory.”
SHIH RESIDENCE--UNBUILT “This interesting domestic design on a challenging site is a great reclamation of internal space. In complete contrast to the surrounding area, it creates a serene environment.”
WEST MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP BUILDING “This very interesting public space has a farmlike quality to its site plan. The township was courageous to build this level of modern architecture with character.”
ASSOCIATES AWARD PLUNKERT + HESSELBERTH HOUSE--UNBUILT “This well-executed project in a familiar, modern language utilizes a clear plan combined with a nice hierarchy of parts. The elevation demonstrates which rooms are most important. This completely cohesive project has a nice loft-like quality, and the resolution seems appropriate for a live/work environment.”
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