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DESIGN AWARDS COMMITTEE
Scott Vieth (Co-Chairperson), Ayers/Saint/Gross, 410-303-7812; svieth@asg-architects.com
Denise Khoury (Co-Chairperson),, Mechoshade Systemns/Stretchwall Installation, 310-574-3840; denisek@mechoshade.com
Laura Dulski, AIA (Board Liaison), Hord Coplan Macht, Inc., 410-837-7311; ldulski@hcm2.com.
Organizes and conducts programs to recognize and promote design excellence.
2009 Excellence in Design Awards and Baltimore Architecture Week
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Fava Building; Charles Brickbauer, AIA – Ziger/Snead LLP Architects |
For many years, AIABaltimore, through its Design Awards Committee has conducted an annual program to encourage and recognize design excellence among its membership, and to foster public appreciation of the architect’s role in shaping our communities. Throughout the summer, competing firms will prepare submission boards to be juried. The Call for Entries will be mailed in July. If you do not receive yours by August 1, please call 410.625.2585.
Our celebratory event will be held on a Friday evening, in October to be followed by our 8th annual Beaux Arts Ball. Our 46th annual Excellence in Design Awards Celebration will once again be the climax of AIABaltimore’s annual Baltimore Architecture Week, currently charting the course for its year. Last year’s stimulating series of events included a variety of lectures, tours, and artisan workshops. This year we hope to build on last year’s success with the cooperation of many of our previous partners and sponsors.
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Grand Design Award Winner 2008
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Ford Orientation Center
Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association
Mount Vernon, Virginia
GWWO, Inc./Architects
Contact: Alan Reed, AIA, 410.332.1009
“This visitors’ center is built beautifully into the landscape as the depressed outdoor room becomes the plinth. It’s so beautifully sited that it doesn’t detract from the historic panoramic view. Timeless detailing is used well throughout. The building will weather beautifully.”
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Design Awards 2008
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Baltimore School for the Arts
Baltimore City Schools
Baltimore, Maryland
Cho Benn Holback + Associates
Contact: David Benn, AIA, 410.576.0440
“This outstanding project captures leftover urban space to create a campus out of four distinct buildings. The section and axis are wonderful. With great restraint, the architect searched for and accomplished a way of admitting natural daylight into the plan. The light flows remarkably between the old and new spaces. An old alley has become an active link to the dance wing.”
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Good Business = Good Design Award
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Durrett Sheppard Steel Office Addition
Baltimore, Maryland
JRS Architects, Inc -1
Contac t: John Srygley, AIA, 410.685.6300
“This terrific renovation and new addition makes wonderful use of the company’s materials and processing throughout the design. It’s so well-done and uncontrived, that one can’t tell who pushed this material use – the client or the architect. The program is efficiently sandwiched into the space. Conventional details are used in a well-restrained fashion with elegant proportions and beautiful clerestory lighting. The featured materials play back and forth against the masonry backdrop. It is gratifying to see an industry invest the effort in creativity to showcase its products and administrative functions in such a pleasant place to work.”
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The Gateway
Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland
RTKL Associates Inc.
Contact: Dianne Black, AIA, 410.537.6000
“The opportunity to live in this inspirational building could affect an art student’s career. The large scale donut creates a wonderful central space and outdoor commons that demonstrates options to average high-rise housing. The structural regularity with unexpected aspects is bold and amazing. We applaud the architect and client.”
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Michael F. Trostel FAIA Award for Excellence in a Historic Preservation Project 2008
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Immaculate Conception Church
Archdiocese of Baltimore
Towson, Maryland
Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects
Contact: Michael Murphy, FAIA, 410.625.4823
“Your grandmother could walk back into this church and not see the restoration architect’s hand. The design team took an eraser and got rid of the 1960s. This extremely thorough restoration with its studied and warm colors enables the church to look the way it should.”
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The River House
Jamaica, Virginia
Ziger/Snead LLP
Contact: Jamie Snead, AIA, 410.576.9131
“This nicely-detailed but simple form, ordered in steel bays, is transformed according to view, program, and whether the space is public or private. Helping to root it to the ground, the house bridges a natural swale that splits the site. Beautifully-sited, the home respects the grander scale of the river and works well with the horizon of the beach, shoreline, and retaining wall.
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Honorable Mention Awards 2008
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Banneker Douglass Museum
Maryland State DHCD and DGS
Annapolis, Maryland
Cho Benn Holback + Associates
Contact: David Benn, AIA, 410.576.0440
“The new addition does a beautiful job of referring to the church in a clear way. It is very cleverly deferential to the historic building. The interesting juxtaposition creates a new entrance and re-centers the overall face of the building. Using the glass separator for the hyphen works well. The museum circulation in combination with the program is wonderful.”
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Decker Walk envirowhomes
Patterson Park CDC
Baltimore, Maryland
Trace Architects
Contact: Jim Shetler, AIA, 443.838.0379
“This great transformation is a commitment to sustainability and revitalization on a big scale –an entire block! This overall project is worth supporting as a good demonstration project for Baltimore. It could help address the BRAC influx of people.”
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Enoch Pratt Free Library Orleans Street Branch
Enoch Pratt Free Library
Baltimore, Maryland
Cho Benn Holback + Associates
Contact: David Benn, AIA, 410.576.0440
“The general massing is very successful. The use of northern natural daylight creates nice bright, glare-free spaces. Using colorful exterior panels symbolizing book spines makes the building look like a library in a fresh way. Open to the street and inviting, this bright building energizes the neighborhood. Wonderful design attention has been given to this public project.”
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National Sailing Hall of Fame UNBUILT
Annapolis, Maryland
GWWO, Inc./Architects
Contact: Alan Reed, AIA, 410.332.1009
“This project does a good job of expressing its purpose – celebrating sailing! It is a white object surrounded by historic brick. The linearity, sun control, and thin, mast-like scale of elements are wonderful as it steps away at the base to frame the State House. Well-presented, it is very achievable and can be built.”
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Nemours Mansion and Gardens
Wilmington, Delaware
Ayers/Saint/Gross
Contact: Glenn Birx, AIA, 410.347.8517
“The impressive, simple order of the building creates a timeline in materiality. The linear process of moving through it is enclosing and leading. Appropriate to the run, the flaring of sweeping roofs is logical and not exaggerated. With materials relating to the Brandywine Valley, stone forms the datum line and releases the lighter material above.”
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New Library, Morgan State University
Baltimore, Maryland
Design Collective, Inc., Architect of Record
Sasaki Associates, Inc., Design Architect
Contact: Dennis Jankiewicz, AIA, 410.685.6655
“Each façade addresses a different context well. The glazed street façade relates to the interior façade beautifully, where the exterior coloration is repeated. The openness appropriately reveals the 24/7 activity of campus life to the street. We applaud the sustainable characteristics – roof overhangs, glass fins sunscreen, light monitors, and green roof.”
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Phillips Corporation
Hanover, Maryland
Alexander Design Studio
Contact: Charles Alexander, AIA, 410.465.8207
“The architect used the precision and color of the client’s product to develop the concept for this very successful interior project. The notion of carved solids in space against black, solid voids is addressed well. The rationale and execution are well-explained.”
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Swell House
Baltimore, Maryland
Brennan + Company Architects
Contact: Robert Brennan, AIA, 410.788.2282
“This sustainable small house and small budget does equal swell results. This design demonstrates how a lot of energy and thinking can create something unique and powerful in a small space. This is a professional achievement. We applaud the flip of the private and public spaces to opposite floors.”
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Woodberry Kitchen
Spike and Amy Gjerde
Baltimore, Maryland
SMG Architects
Contact: Walter Schamu, FAIA, 410.685.3582
“This beautifully-detailed intervention into an historic shell is fresh, light, and very tactile. It celebrates the craft of metalwork. The use of reclaimed and recycled materials adds a traditional feel to this contemporary interior. Really good work accomplished the goal of making this space feel European. Truly, the client trusted the architect.”
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Woodvalley House
Baltimore, Maryland
Ziger/Snead LLP
Contact: Jamie Snead, AIA, 410.576.9131
“With exquisite details and wonderful interior spaces, this beautiful two-story wooden home nestles into the scale of the neighborhood nicely. The interior and exterior have a strong relationship to each other. The outdoor space is beautifully-scaled. The architect has hidden a lovely source of light above the fireplace in this elegant and restrained design.”
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