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January 07, 2008, 02:06 PM ET
Architects' Honor Awards Go to College Buildings and Landscape Plans
The American Institute of Architects continued its annual cycle of prizes this morning by naming several college projects—including three by University of Arkansas Community Design Center—among the 28 winners of 2008 Honor Awards:
The Shaw Center for the Arts, in Baton Rouge, La. (Image courtesy Schwartz/Silver Architects)
At Louisiana State University, an architecture honor award goes to the 2005 Shaw Center for the Arts, which houses the university’s Museum of Art and School of Art, as well as the Manship Performing Arts Center, restaurants, and galleries. A joint project of the university, the city and state governments, and numerous arts organizations, the Shaw Center also incorporates the 1930s-era Auto Hotel, a landmark garage. The lead design firm was Schwartz/Silver Architects.
At the University of California at Berkeley, an architecture honor award goes to a project to add additional buildings to a set of 1960s residence halls constructed in a neighborhood south of the campus. The buildings, known as Residence Halls Units 1 & 2 Infill Student Housing, were designed by EHDD Architecture.
At Williams College, an interior-architecture award goes to the ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance, designed by William Rawn Associates, Architects. The 2005 building (right) incorporates a 550-seat main stage, a 200-seat studio space, and an older 210-seat thrust-stage theater. The main lobby opens onto the town green with large sliding doors and a broad overhang. Campus pathways wind through the building, giving visitors and students a chance to glimpse plays and dances in the making (Robert Benson image).
At the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, the University of Arkansas Community Design Center picks up regional-and urban-design awards for three projects. One is a proposal to improve 2,000 feet of a stream located in the southwestern quadrant of the campus. The project offers “multiple opportunities to control the ecological footprint of the campus infrastructure and turn the river’s adjacent surfaces from liability to asset within current political and financial circumstances,” according to the jury’s statement. The second project consists of a 17-unit low-impact development for Habitat for Humanity in Rogers, Ark. The jury said the five-acre development shows “how a sustainable landscape can blend seamlessly with good urban design and architecture.” The third project, called Visioning Rail Transit, foresees minimizing the importance of cars by building mass-transit networks in northwest Arkansas, where the population is expected to double in the next 15 years.
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