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AIA NY Announces Building Type Award Winners

Categories included Educational Facilities, Sustainable Projects, and Urban Design.

Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 4/14/2008 12:00:00 AM

An ecologically instructive visitors' center, a public waterfront park in Manhattan, and a historic Beaux-Arts bank turned sustainable library in Providence, Rhode Island are among the winners of a new biennial awards program launched by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA NY) and the Boston Society of Architects. The Building Type Design Awards honor architectural excellence and innovation in specialized design fields.

Both seasoned and emerging firms from New York City and Massachusetts submitted projects located around the world, regardless of budget or size, into three sectors: Educational Facilities, Sustainable Projects, and Urban Design.

A total of 104 entries were received, and winners were designated with either honor or merit citations. Members of the jury included architects Jane H. Weinzapfel, Stephen J. Kieran, and M. David Lee.

"The Building Type Awards of the AIA New York Chapter recognize superlative achievements by specialists whose work is unheralded by general-purpose design juries that are sometimes too influenced by form and photos," says James McCullar, 2008 AIA New York Chapter president. "Through their impact on people’s lives, all of the special projects receiving awards incorporate innovation and accommodation to truly represent 'designs for living.'"

Awards sectors will change annually -- the next competition will focus on Health and Housing Facilities.

On Wednesday, April 30, an awards luncheon will honor winners of the Building Type Awards and the AIA NY Design Awards. Projects from both competitions will be on view at the Center for Architecture, May 1-June 28.

A complete list of winners is below.

Educational Facility Design Honor Award Winners
Project: Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Architect: Office dA

Project: Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Location: New York
Architect: Lyn Rice Architects

Project: Syracuse University, The Warehouse
Location: Syracuse
Architect: Gluckman Mayner Architects

Project: Sarah Lawrence College, Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Visual Arts Center
Location: Bronxville, New York
Architect: Polshek Partnership Architects

Project: Susan P. and Richard A. Friedman Study Center
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Architect: Architecture Research Office

Educational Facility Design Merit Award Winners
Project: Grant Recital Hall
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Architect: Brian Healy Architects

Project: New York University Department of Philosophy
Location: New York, NY
Architect: Steven Holl Architects

Project: Josai School of Management
Location: Sakado, Japan
Architect: Studio SUMO

Project: The New York Hall of Science Preschool Teaching Park
Location: Queens, NY
Architect: BKSK Architects

Sustainable Design Honor Award Winners
Project: 100 VE - Unilever London Headquarters
Location: 100 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DY, United Kingdom
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Project: The New York Times Building
Location: New York
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop in association with FXFOWLE (Base Building
Architecture); Gensler (Interior Architecture)

Project: Inland Steel Building Restoration
Location: Chicago
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Project: The Queens Botanical Garden Visitor & Administration Center
Location: Queens, New York
Architect: BKSK Architects

Sustainable Design Merit Award Winner:
Project: Harvard University Library Services Building
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Architect: Leers Weinzapfel Associates and Samuel Anderson Architects

Project: Sarah Lawrence College,Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Visual Arts Center
Location: Bronxville, New York
Architect: Polshek Partnership Architects

Project: Linked Hybrid
Location: Beijing, China
Architect: Steven Holl Architects

Urban Design Honor Award Winner:
Project: 55 Water Street Plaza
Location: New York
Architect: Rogers Marvel Architects

Project: Hudson Square RISE
Location: New York
Architect: Zakrzewski + Hyde Architects

Urban Design Merit Award Winners
Project: Long Island Rail Road; East Side Access; 50th Street Ventilation Facility
Location: New York
Architect: DMJM HARRIS - subconsultant to the joint venture group of PB, STV, and
Parsons Transportation Group, General Engineering Consultant Responsible for all
Engineering and Design of the East Side Access Project

Project: Pentagon Reservation: Perimeter Security & Pedestrian Plaza
Location: Pentagon Reservation, Washington, D.C.
Architect: Rogers Marvel Architects & Ritter Architects

Project: Musiskwartier
Location: Arnhem, the Netherlands
Architect: Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Project: Unified New Orleans Plan (District 3 and District 4)
Location: New Orleans, LA
Architect: Frederic Schwartz Architects

Above: The Unilever headquarters in London by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Photo courtesy of HG Esch.