2004 Region Design Awards Announced

The 2004 awards for architectural excellence were presented at the AIA Northwest and Pacific Region Annual Conference held recently in Big Sky, Montana.

Jurors for the competition included: Marsha Maytum, FAIA, Partner in the firm of Leddy Maytum Stacey Architects; Robert Ivy, FAIA, of McGraw-Hill Construction; Frank Barkow, Architect with Barkow Leibinger Architects; and Lawrence Scarpa, AIA, with PUGH + SCARPA.

 

Projects and Architects Receiving Awards

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Awards of Honor

 

BP Energy Center; Anchorage, Alaska

Architect: Koonce Pfeffer Bettis, Inc.
Anchorage, Alaska

Jury Comments
· Special – great plan.
· Simply – beautifully
· Has interaction with forest – interstitial space between building and forest are complementary

Photo credit: Kevin Smith


Uri Village, Kwanghwa Island, Korea

Architect: Byoungsoo Cho + Helen Pank
Seoul, Korea

Jury Comments
· Created world for the people
· Really quite good
· Euclidian geometry

Photo credit: Jongoh Kim


Village of Dancing Fish, Paju, Korea

Architect: Byoungsoo Cho Architects
Seoul, Korea

Jury Comments
· Sketch drawings quite nice.
Units-simple planning – Gratifying.
· Plans really nice. Fresh sensibility, very light.
· Roof vs. Landscape. Residential living spaces very strong

Photo credit: Jongoh Kim


Fauntleroy Residence, Seattle, Washington

Architect: Suyama Peterson Deguchi
Seattle, Washington

Jury Comments
· Relationship between existing and new buildings.
· Restrained, not overblown.
· Plan/elevations simple
· Deck lips out and same thickness at roof
· Thin contrast in materials/ spine move experience
· Restraint – budget – held together tightly
· Gratified – not wild originality – doing what they do very well

Photo credit: Paul Warchol / Lara Swimmer




Awards of Merit

Lantern Wonderland, Victoria Park, Hong Kong

Architect: dwp CL3
Central, Hong Kong

Jury Comments
· James Turrell likes lantern that glows
· Single space, single use, serves purpose
· Framing – ground texture
· Inventive use of bamboo and other materials
· Integrated

Photo credit: Wu Kin Yat


Loyola Jesuit Center, Portland, Oregon

Architect: Hennebery Eddy Architects Inc
Portland, Oregon

Jury Comments
· Good solid all around project.
· Works very well.

Photo credit: Photography by eckert & eckert


Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington

Architect: The Miller/Hull Partnership, LLP
Seattle, Washington

Jury Comments
· Almost Neo Brutalist piece of work
· Acts more as civic building
· It disappears, very well considered.

Photo credit: Steve Keating


Robert & Margrit Mondavi Center for the Arts, Davis, California

Architect: BOORA Architects
Portland, Oregon

Jury Comments
· Institutional building, very light. Provides civic face, gateway to University.
· Performing art space – conventional. Systems/energy use interesting.
· Public space almost enough to carry project

Photo credit: Jeff Goldberg / Esto Photographics, Inc.


Willamette Drinking Water Treatment Plant, Wilsonville, Oregon

Architect: The Miller/Hull Partnership, LLP
Seattle, Washington

Jury Comments
· Landscape is good.
· Vertical vs. Horizontal – tracks along slightly sloping section.
· Human scale vs. concrete piers
· Nice in big scale.

Photo credit: eckert & eckert


Award of Citation

Skyspace Pavilion, UW, Seattle, Washington

Architect: Donnally Architects in collaboration with James Turrell
Seattle, Washington

Jury Comments
· Urbanistic, Elegant, Great project/great artist

Photo credit: Lara Swimmer


Adidas Village, Portland, Oregon

Architect: BOORA Architects
Portland, Oregon

Jury Comments
· The company re-habited hospital.
· Recycle, relation to link of road
· Within city, not on new site

Photo credit: David Papazian
Photography, Inc.


Pacific Artists Dance Center, Portland, Oregon

Architect: Richard Brown Architects AIA LLP, Portland, Oregon

Jury Comments
· Very simple. Doesn’t try to be anything it isn’t.
· So simple – one space – one cleanup – one canopy –The power of ONE
· Recycle/not dumped
· Careful eye to know when to stop
· No budget – came up with something unforgettable
· Someone made something out of nothing

Photo credit: Bruce Forster / Michael Mathers


Ode to Roses, Portland, Oregon

Architect: Fletcher Farr Ayotte PC
Portland, Oregon

Jury Comments
· Really has great features
· Neighborhood – is a different place now
· Straight forward interior
· Project has no negative elements

Photo credit: Brian Foulkes


Past Award Recipients

2003 Award of Honor
2003 Award of Merit
2003 Award of Citation

2002 Award of Honor
2002 Award of Merit 

2001 Award of Honor
2001 Award of Merit 

A historical file of design awards winners is maintained in the Regional Office.

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