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Health ImageAIA Michigan Design Awards and Recognitions
May 15, 2009
6:30 p.m. Reception, Awards and Dinner
 The Westin Book Cadillac Hotel
Venetian Ballroom
 
                    Cost:  $119.00 AIA Members, Professional Affiliates and Guests
          $99.00 Associate Members and Students
                   Valet Parking Available - $8.00
 
Recognitions
 
Steve Whitney
 
 
 
 Gold Medal
 Stephen Q. Whitney FAIAHealth Image
 Albert Kahn Associates Inc.  
 
 
                                             
 
                                              President's Award
                                           Douglas C. Hanna AIA
                                                     The University of Michigan
                             Tom Mathison
 
 
 Robert F. Hastings Award

 Thomas R. Mathison FAIA                     
 TowerPinkster
 
jim walker
 
 
                             
                             Honorary Affiliate Member
                                  James Walker Jr., PA
                         Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association
 
ed welburn
 
 
 
 Honorary Affiliate Member
 Edward T. Welburn, Jr.
 Vice President of Global Design General Motors
 
Tom Roberts
 
 
                                                                              
                                                                                 Young Architect
                                                         Thomas M. Roberts AIA
                                                           GunnLevine Architects

 
  
 
College of Fellows  
Elisabeth Knibbe, FAIA   
Quinn Evans|Architects  
 
 
Firm of the Year
Hobbs+Black Associates, Inc.
Ann Arbor and Lansing
 
hobbs 
AWARD WINNERS
 
Affirmations Community Center, Ferndale, MI
Category: Sustainable Design
Owner: Affirmations Gay & Lesbian Community Center
Contractor: The Monahan Company
Photos: Lark Photography and Robert L. Ziegelman, FAIA
Architect: Luckenbach|Ziegelman Architects PLLC
 
Allegretti Residence, Sawyer, MI
Category:  Twenty-Five Year
Owner:  Fred and Kay Eck & Family
Contractor:  Allegretti Architects
Photos:  John W. Allegretti, FAIA
Architect:  Allegretti Architects, Inc. 
 
Center for Academic Research Excellence Crawley Building
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Category: Building
Owner: The University of Cincinnati
Contractor: Dick Corp.
Photos: Brad Feinknopf
Architect: Harley Ellis Devereaux, Architect of Record
STUDIOS Architecture, Design Architect 

 Compuware World Headquarters, Detroit, MI
Category: Steel Award
Owner: Compuware Corporation
Contractor: Walbridge Aldinger
Photos: Steve Hall of Hedrich Blessing, Laszlo Regos
Architect: Rossetti
 
First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Rochester, MI
Category: Building
Owner: First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
Contractor: Frank Rewold and Sons, Inc.
Photos: David Rose, Photographer
Architect: Constantine George Pappas AIA Architecture/Planning
 
inFORM studio, Northville, MI
Category: Interior Architecture
Owner: inFORM studio
Contractor: Sterling Construction
Architect: inFORM Studio
 
Lofts at 400 Parent Avenue, Royal Oak, MI
Category: Building
Owner: Proton Capital, LLC
Contractor: Ronnisch Construction Group
Photos: Kevin Bauman Photography
Architect: McIntosh Poris Associates
 
Detroit Diesel/Sterling and Western Star Lobby Expansion, Redford, MI
Category: Low Budget/Small Project
Owner: Daimler AG
Contractor: Barton Malow Company
Photos: Justin Maconochie
Architect: Harley Ellis Devereaux

 
Traverwood Library, Ann Arbor, MI
Category: Building
Owner: Ann Arbor District Library
Contractor: O'Neal Construction
Architect: InFORM Studio
 
University Center, Lansing, MI
Category: Building
Owner: Lansing Community College
Contractor: Granger Construction
Photos: Justin Maconochie and David E. Rose
Architect: SHW Group
 
YMCA Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI
Category: Interior Architecture
Owner: Riverfront Holdings, Inc.
Developer: Hines Interests, LP 
Contractor: Barton Malow Special Projects Group
Photos: Michael Collyer Photography
Architect: McIntosh Poris Associates
 
Award Jury - Columbus, Ohio
Chair:  Curtis J. Moody, FAIA, LEED AP
Robert S. Livesey, FAIA
Ruth M. Gless, AIA
George Acock, AIA
Jon Guldenzopf, AIA LEED AP
 
The Westin Book Cadillac Detroit
 
Book CaddilacLocated at the corner of State Street and Detroit's Washington Boulevard, once dubbed the Fifth Avenue of the Midwest, the hotel first opened in 1924 as the tallest hotel in the world with 33 floors and 1,136 guestrooms. Presidents, entertainers, major sports celebrities like Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, and many other notables were guests of Book Cadillac.
 
Designed in the Italian Renaissance style by architect Louis Kamper, the 'Book" was the top hotel in Detroit for several years hosting conventions, weddings, and many high society social events. The hotel played a role in the 1948 film State of the Union starring Spencer Tracey, Kathryn Hepburn and Angela Lansbury - it was room "2419" where Presidential hopeful, Grant Matthews (Tracy), readied for his speech to Detroit's business leaders. A nighttime image of the hotel's marquee is seen in the movie. 
 
The hotel went in a downward tailspin when America was in its economic dilemma in the late 1920s and 1930s. New ownership pumped up the property and the Book Cadillac continued to flourish through the 1940s and early 1960s. However the grand lady of Washington Boulevard fell on hard times again and struggled through ownership changes and was re-flagged a Sheraton and later a Radisson, until the doors closed in 1984 and the hotel was liquidated in 1986.
 
In 2006, following more than two years of planning, The Ferchill Group of Cleveland, Ohio, worked with Detroit's economic leadership to devise a financial package to launch the redevelopment plan. A management contract was signed with Starwood Hotels & Resorts to operate the Westin Book Cadillac Detroit, and construction began in 2007. 

Special Room Rates - Getaway Rate $149.00
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