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2014 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture

United Kingdom Architecture News - Jan 10, 2014 - 14:45   2371 views

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. View all 2014 AIA Awards Recipients.

 

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

WEISS/MANFREDI

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center serves as a legible point of arrival while also defining a new threshold between the city and a variety of landscapes of the 52-acre garden.

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Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI) Campus

KPMB Architects

This campus formerly occupied by the Seagram distillery is a reinterpretation of a traditional academic quad.

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Community Rowing Boathouse

Community Rowing Boathouse

Anmahian Winton Architects

This nonprofit rowing club after 20 years relocated to a 30,000 square-foot boathouse on the Charles River and now sits at an intersection of activity that allows it to serve the community on a grander scale.

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Jackson Hole Airport

Jackson Hole Airport

Gensler

Being the only airport in the U.S. located within a National Park, the Jackson Hole Airport is a considerate renovation that takes advantage of awe-inspiring surroundings.

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King Street Station

King Street Station

ZGF Architects LLP

With commuter ridership on the rise, this renovation project restored the building's historic character and upgraded facilities to meet current needs.

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Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum

Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum

HGA Architects and Engineers

Requiring careful consideration of the intimacy of personal grieving the Garden Mausoleum at Lakewood Cemetery challenges the paradigm of mausoleums as dark, introverted places.

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The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Belzberg Architects

Located within the Pan Pacific Park, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust balances spatial requirements with the introduction of a significant new structure into the urban park's existing landscape.

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The Pierre

The Pierre

Olson Kundig Architects

French for "stone", The Pierre is a residence inspired by it's owners affection for a stone outcropping on the property line and the views from the site itself.

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Quaker Meeting House and Arts Center, Sidwell Friends School

Quaker Meeting House and Arts Center, Sidwell Friends School

KieranTimberlake

This Quaker school located in Washington, D.C., transformed a 1950's gymnasium into a contemplative space with additional facilities for art and music instruction.

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SCAD Museum of Art

SCAD Museum of Art

Sottile & Sottile and Lord Aeck Sargent

This project transformed a series of dilapidated freight warehouses, incorporated them into a complex that expands the Savannah College of Art and Design, and celebrates African American art.

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St. Louis Public Library, Central Library Transformation and Restoration

St. Louis Public Library, Central Library Transformation and Restoration

Cannon Design

Nearing the 100th-year anniversary of its Central Branch, the St. Louis Public Library sought to modernize it's space, enhance it's original Beaux Arts beginnings, and increase the interest of the public.

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