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AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2012 AIA Honor Awards for Regional & Urban Design

The Institute Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design recognize distinguished achievements that involve the expanding role of the architect in urban design, regional and city planning, and community development. The awards identify projects and programs that contribute to the quality of these environments.  This year the University of Arkansas Community Design Center was awarded for their project "Fayetteville 2030: Transit City Scenario." 

To view this and the 8 other projects awarded in this category, click here.

 

The Institute Honor Awards program recognizes achievements for a broad range of architectural activity to elevate the general quality of architecture practice, establish a standard of excellence against which all architects can measure performance, and inform the public of the breadth and value of architecture practice.  This year Marlon Blackwell, FAIA received an Honor Award for the Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion. 

Jury Comments
This pavilion is artfully cast in the shadows of the adjacent trees, its transparency is enhanced by its latticed canopy which filters light thru its entirety and the floor to ceiling glazing hides no secrets.

Its low posture and horizontal form enhances the encompassing flora and is quite elegant in its lightness while reaching out and inviting nature in.

Read about Blackwell's experience and "The Value of an Institute Honor Award."
To view this and the 8 other projects awarded in this category, click here.

The 2013 Call for Entries is now open.  If you are interested in submitting a project, click here for more details.

For more than 150 years, AIA-member architects have worked with each other and their communities to create more valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings and cityscapes. The American Institute of Architects website features projects that meet these standards.  Currently, Heifer International in Little Rock, a project of Reese Rowland & Polk Stanley Wilcox is recognized by the American Institute of Architects as a featured project. 

 

Accolades given to residential, restaurant and lighting design projects

Thirty-one designs for residences and pavilions, culinary, municipal and commercial spaces, and structures dedicated to culture, education and religion all vied for recognition in this year's Fay Jones Alumni Design Awards competition.  Entries came from Fay Jones School of Architecture alumni practicing in cities around the state, as well as in California, Oregon, Tennessee, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, New York, Florida and Washington, D.C. After careful review, the three-member jury chose five projects for accolades - resulting in three Merit Awards and two Honorable Mentions.
 

The alumni design awards were announced and presented April 20 during the school's annual Honors Recognition reception and ceremony at the Arkansas Union on the University of Arkansas campus.
Among the winners was AIA Arkansas member, Tim Maddox, AIA, principal at deMx Architecture in Fayetteville. 

Maddox won a Merit Award for Vetro 1925 in Fayetteville.   Maddox, who graduated in 2002 from the university with a Bachelor of Architecture, is a principal at deMx architecture in Fayetteville.

"The design of the dining room for restaurant Vetro 1925 is appropriately thoughtful and discrete," jury members said. "But it is the design of the bar at the front and the restaurant's street face that are the project's most apparent strengths. Bright, colored light illuminates the street and the setting, contemporary but a bit reminiscent of Brassaï's photos of Paris. The result is an urbane architecture that is sufficiently powerful in its impact to make the city, in that setting, seem just a bit bigger than it really is."

Other Merit Award winners included John W. Allegretti for Laketown Residence in Saugatuck, MI and Richard Renfro for The Morgan Library & Museum - McKim Building Restoration in New York City.

Honorable Mention awards went to Patrick E. Hoy for Hoy + Stark Architects Studio Office in Tallahassee, FL and Robert Kerr for HUeC (Hudson Unenclosed Cabana and Landscape) in Los Angeles. Kerr, who graduated in 1992 from the university with a Bachelor of Architecture, is a principal at Robert

Jury comprised of faculty members of the architecture school: Jennifer D. Webb, associate professor of interior design; Phoebe McCormick Lickwar, assistant professor of landscape architecture; and David Buege, professor of architecture and Fay Jones Visiting Chair.

View all entries by clicking here. 
Excerpt from UofA News 

GULF STATES DESIGN AWARDS

GULF STATES ARCHITECTS SET RECORDS IN DESIGN EXCELLENCE
  

Architects from the Gulf States Region of the American Institute of Architects set records in both number of entries and number of awards in the 2012 Honor Awards program.  "Extraordinary," brilliant," "elegant" and "sustainable" were included in the jury comments when discussing the merits of these design projects.  This Honors program identifies built works of distinction, and twenty projects were recognized as exemplary design solutions. 
 

HONOR AWARDS 

An accomplished group of design professionals from the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area of North Carolina juried the projects.  Belinda Stewart, AIA, of Eupora, MS acted as Program Chair.  The jury members were Frank Harmon, FAIA (Frank Harmon Architect, PA), Ellen Weinstein, AIA (Weinstein-Friedlein Architects, PA), Anna Wu, FAIA (UNC-CH University Architect), Kenneth Luker, AIA (senior designer at FREELON), Eddie Belk, FAIA (Belk Architecture), and Kevin Montgomery, FAIA (Director of Architecture at O'Brien/Atkins Associates).
 

Two Honor Awards and two Honor Citations were given to AIA Arkansas members.  The awards were presented at the AIA Gulf States Region reception in Washington, DC, in conjunction with the AIA National Convention.
 

Ruth Lily Visitors Pavilion / Marlon Blackwell Architect (Fayetteville)
A new construction project, the Visitors Pavilion provides an evocative place to rest and reflect upon one's experience of the 100 Acres Art and Nature Park.
 

JURY COMMENTS: This project complements nature. Its cross section is thoughtfully considered with a roof that hovers above the rooms as delicately as a leaf. Alternately transparent and closed, it sits comfortably on a sensitive site with great lightness. Sunlight filters through the roof and the building is poised above an environmentally sensitive wetland. The boardwalk path through the woods is as carefully considered as the building itself. Indeed, the path seems to fold up and wrap around the program spaces of the interpretative center. We admired the steel exoskeleton lined with a wood screen that shapes the visitor's experience of nature. Extraordinary.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum Store / Marlon Blackwell Architect (Fayetteville)
In this interiors project, the museum store provides a retail destination for art patrons that acts as an extension of the Crystal Bridges Museum experience.
 

JURY COMMENTS: This gift shop in a new museum is embraced by a bold, curved ceiling made of cherry plywood. Underneath this cloud of wood are disposed display areas that are quiet and do not compete with the merchandise. Filled with light and subtly colored tones of wood, this space is both inspiring and reverential. The suspended light fixtures are a touch of brilliance.
 
Additional Honor Awards presented to:

• Visible Music College / archimania (Memphis)
• LSU Music and Dramatic Arts Building / HMS Architects (New Orleans) and STBP Architects/Tipton Associates (Baton Rouge)
• Whitehaven Driver Services Center / LRK Inc. (Memphis)

HONOR CITATION
 

Green Forest Middle School / modus studio (Fayetteville)
This is a modern, 2-story educational building located in a small agricultural community.  Powerful architectural elements define entry, inspire movement through the building, and contain key educational components in a fun, practical and sustainable way.

JURY COMMENTS:  Admirable for its strong campus connections, this middle school speaks to its students with a directness they can understand: a delightful mix of people, space and color. It is cleanly built, not condescending or sentimental, with interiors remarkable for a richness that has been achieved with economy and grace. It raises the quality of the learning environment. A very accomplished building built with a limited budget that is fun, practical and sustainable.

Chapel at Rio Roca Ranch / Maurice Jennings + Walter Jennings Architects, PLLC (Fayetteville)
The Rio Roca Chapel is located along the Brazos River in Texas. The 1080 square foot chapel seats approximately 50 people for private services, performances, and weddings.  It is situated on a bluff edge where the plateau suddenly drops overlooking the river.

JURY COMMENTS:  The jurors admired the respect this chapel building demonstrates for its site, embracing vistas of a magnificent river valley. "Sitting in the chapel, you feel as if you're resting on the side of a mountain," one juror said. Clearly a modern building, the chapel also evokes a spiritual ambiance reminiscent of gothic architecture. It builds on and extends the vocabulary of Fay Jones and Frank Lloyd Wright, blending nature, art, and craft.  Well done.

Additional Honor Citations presented to:

• Lamar Advertising Corporate Headquarters / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple (New Orleans)
• Hertz Center, Tulane University / Gould Evans Associates / Lee Ledbetter & Associates (New 
• Mercedes of Memphis: Service Drive Lane Addition / archimania (Memphis)
• St. Bernard Parish Fire Station #6 / Chase Marshall Architects (Lafayette & New Orleans) 
• Shelton Group / Sanders Pace Architecture, LLC (Knoxville)
• The Memphis Chapter of the Recording Academy / archimania (Memphis)
• Acadiana Center for the Arts, Phase II Expansion / Architects Southwest and Eskew+Dumez+Ripple ( New Orleans)

MERIT

• New Norris House / University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design (Knoxville)
• Tabor Orthopedics / archimania (Memphis)
• 930 Poydras Residential Tower / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple (New Orleans)
• Southgate Condominium / BAUER ASKEW Architecture (Nashville)
• Lewis - Markell Residence / John Harrison Jones, AIA (Memphis)
• Barrier Island House / Sanders Pace Architecture, LLC (Knoxville)

Seeing the Capitol lighted at night is fascinating, he said. The new exterior lights make it look even grander and more imposing, and I encourage people to view the building at night to see how beautiful it really is. 

Martin said with powerful and efficient lighting installed outside, his administrations focus has been on improving the Capitols interior lights.  We've continued improving efficiency, he said. We installed motion sensors in public areas to keep lights off when they're not needed. That cut the lighting meter by 12 percent in January of this year, compared to last January.

Besides lighting efficiency, Martin said the office has restored stonework and Monday began work to restore the Capitols smaller domes over the House and Senate chambers.  Work will continue, he said. The State Capitol is one of the state's most beautiful buildings, and we want to make sure that it is both historically preserved, and energy efficient.

The Department of Art at the University of Arkansas is pleased to announce the installation of 18 Verticals, 70 Horizontals, a new public artwork by sculpture students Adam Crosson and Robert Lemming. Adam is a graduate of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and is currently pursuing post baccalaureate studies in sculpture. Robert graduated with his BA in Sculpture from the University of Arkansas in December 2011 and recently held his first solo exhibition at sUgAR (University of Arkansas Student Gallery) in Bentonville.

18 Verticals, 70 Horizontals is a student-led outdoor work composed primarily of cedar and poplar, which has been shaped using cold bending and bent lamination techniques. The 8' tall piece, formed in the general shape of a coil, illuminated from the interior, and scaled so that viewers may enter the work, will be situated for the next five years on the south lawn of the Fine Arts Building. The design evolved from a site-specific collaborative project assignment introduced last year to students enrolled in ARTS 3213 Sculpture II: Construction Methods and Mixed Media and ARTS 4213: Mixed Media and Spatial Context, courses instructed by Assistant Professor Bethany Springer. Spatial experience, patterns of pedestrian movement on campus, and a balance of handcrafted and automated form all ultimately contributed to the design. Site preparations are currently underway and the installation will continue until the first week of May.

This collaborative initiative was made possible through the generous support of the Associated Student Government, the Contemporary Sculpture Society, NWA Steel, and through instrumental expertise and effort provided by University of Arkansas Facilities Management staff including Mike Johnson, Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities, Jerry Ramey (Carpentry Shop), Alex Ford III and Gary Williams (Paint Shop), Randall Ramey and Rodney Hughes (Electrical Shop), Robert Caudle and Matthew Stafford (Grounds Shop), and Kelley Sharp and Warren Pingel (Construction Services). Guidance and support was also generously provided by Tim LaTourette and Rachel Smith in the Fay Jones School of Architecture, Jeannie Hulen and Bethany Springer in the Department of Art, and the Landscape and Grounds Committee. A special thanks goes to Jill Anthes, Campus Planner, for her resolute leadership, organization, and energy in procuring resources for the project.
*Article courtesy of UA, Department of Art

Bridging Institute of America

A group of 16 architects, engineers, planners and program managers from around the country have recently formed the non-profit Bridging Institute of America for the purpose of having available to fellow architects, engineers and other professionals a dependable source of information about the Bridging method of construction project delivery.  Go to: www.bridginginstitute.org.  Among other information on the website is information about the Founders of the BIA.

Those who have worked for a number of years to develop the method point out that Bridging has significant advantages for Owners, it's original objective, but also for the overall architectural profession.  While the major objective of the Bridging method is to reduce the Owner's risks and costs in a construction program while delivering a fully equivalent or better facility product - - - which it does very effectively - - - there are also major business benefits for the architectural profession.  Those include the fact that there will be an increase in the number of people-hours that the architectural profession as a whole provides and is compensated for by around 10% to 15% when Bridging is employed, that the design firm involved should be able to experience a better profit margin, and that the design firm's exposure to professional liability claims is dramatically reduced.

* Classifications for a variety of health-care related facilities have been clarified.
* Covered- and open-mall provisions revised to fully address the construction of open malls.
* Clarified provisions for incidental-use rooms and spaces.
* Modified provisions addressing exterior wall projections.
* Reformatted requirements for protection of vertical openings through floors.
* Automatic sprinkler systems required where furniture and mattresses are manufactured or stored.
* Increased capacity for stairways and other egress components in buildings with sprinklers and an emergency communication system.
* Clarification of when unenclosed stairways can be used as a part of the means of egress system, including how travel distance is measured.
* In three- and four-exit buildings, some exits are now permitted to serve a portion of a story rather than an entire story.
 

IRC 2012

IFC 2012
 

* New requirement for: photovoltalic solar cells on roofs; mass notification fire alarm systems in large stadiums; portable fire extinguishers in Group A, B, and E occupancies; sub-atmospheric gas systems; and automated LP-Gas cylinder exchange cabinets.
* Revised definitions for health, day and ambulatory care occupancies.
* Clarified automatic sprinkler protection requirements for upholstered furniture.
* Revised requirements for specific dry cleaning plants.
 

The Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas Announces

The Historic Preservation Alliance

The 2012 list of Arkansas's Most Endangered Historic Places

• Arkansas's Historic County Courthouses 
• Bigelow Rosenwald School 
• Coker Hotel 
• Holloway House 
• Holman School 
• Medical Arts Building 
• Monte Ne & Oklahoma Row Hotel Stie 
• New Hope School 
• Palace Theatre 
• V.C. Kays House  

Call for members - ASHRAE  189.1

ASHRAE is seeking new members to comment on the upcoming code change to Standard 189.1, Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings. Please read the description below and if you are interested, please contact Stephanie Spear, Manager Codes Advocacy, at 202-626-7449 or stephaniespear@aia.org.

 
EXPERTISE NEEDED: This call for members is directed towards individuals who have expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Site Sustainability: Site development, stormwater management, mitigation of heat island effect, light pollution reduction, and environmentally sensitive lands including, flood plains, wetlands, conservation areas, native plants and biodiversity.
• Builders/Contractors: Construction project management, project estimation, sustainable site development management, design-build process, health/safety/energy codes compliance, green building program compliance, product evaluation and selection, and the integration of building, plumbing and mechanical systems
• Acoustics and Noise Control: Acoustics, sound isolation, and building systems noise and vibration control, particularly appropriate criteria for such.  Familiarity with the activities of organizations such as INCE, ASA, and NCAC, ASTM standards for sound isolation measurement (e.g., E90, E336, E492, E1007, E966), ANSI S12.60 on Classroom Acoustics, and the Facilities Guideline Institute criteria for healthcare facilities.
• Facilities Management/O&M: Plans for operation (see section 10 of Standard 189.1), covering a broad range of building operation aspects including commissioning, measurement of building performance, and the preparation of specific plans for operating a building. Expertise in the sustainable management of building facilities including preventative maintenance, service life planning, performance measurement and tracking, and how these operational elements are integrated into the building design and construction process.
• Nexus of water and energy use: The link between these two critical resources given that the production of energy requires large volumes of water while the treatment and distribution of water is dependent upon readily available, low-cost energy.
• Materials and Resources: Building material choices as they impact pollution, habitat destruction, and natural resource depletion, including sustainable product evaluation and selection, preferably from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Members are typically expected to make the following time commitments:

• (2) face-to-face meetings at the Winter and Annual ASHRAE meetings, lasting about 1.5 days each, including working group and full committee meetings
• (1) three hour full committee webinar each month
• (1) two hour working conference call each month for each of the 2-3 working groups on which each member serves
• Roughly 8+ hours per month to research concepts, prepare proposed revisions to the standard, review other proposals, develop and review responses to public review commenters, etc.

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