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ALA Design Honors The Niles Police Station won top honors in a recent design
competition.
The project won the Presidential Award in the 2005 Design
Award Program sponsored by the Barrington-based Association of Licensed Architects.
In
honoring Niles, the jury said, "This project was inspired by the desire of
the owner and designer that the design should be free and accessible to the public.
Visually, the building softly moves upward from either street face. Starting low
and raising to it is the most brilliant point, the community room, a friendly
space for Niles residents."
The architect was the Chicago office of
Fairfax, Va.-based PSA-Dewberry Inc.
The 14 other winners comprised the
following:
St. Bruno Catholic Church, Dousman, Wis., Gold Award, Milwaukee-based
Plunkett Raysich Architects.
Steingraber Residence, Newton, Wis.,
Gold Award, Chicago-based Blue Work Design LLC.
Holy Spirit Catholic
Community, Naperville, Silver Award, Northbrook-based Serena Strum Architects
Ltd.
Lock-Up Self-Storage Center, Skokie, Silver Award, Chicago-based
Sullivan Goulette Wilson Ltd.
People's Bank, Downs, Ill., Silver Award,
Chicago-based Bailey Edward Design Inc.
Adventureplex at Marine, Manhattan
Beach, Calif., Merit Award, PSA-Dewberry Inc.
Anixter, Alsip, Merit
Award, Itasca-based Heitman Architects Inc.
City Homes at River Village,
Chicago, Merit Award, Chicago-based Hirsch Associates LLC.
Erie on
the Park, Chicago, Merit Award, Chicago-based Lucien Lagrange Architects.
Fine and Performing Arts Center, Kirksville, Mo., Merit Award, Chicago-based Holabird
& Root LLC.
Hard Rock Hotel, Chicago, Merit Award, Lucien Lagrange
Architects.
Naperville Public Library 95th Street facility, Merit
Award, PSA-Dewberry Inc.
Private Residence, Chicago, Merit Award,
Hirsch Associates LLC.
Schiller Studios, Chicago, Merit Award, Chicago-based
Ann Temple Architects.
The competition had 70 entries. The ALA is a national
architecture organization whose mission is to advance the profession.
Funds
to Move, Preserve School from 1890s
One of the oldest structures in
northwest suburban Chicago, the Central School in Mount Prospect, will be moved
from its current site as part of a preservation effort.
The school, a one-room
frame structure built in1896, was the first home of Mount Prospect School District
57 and one of the few such structures of its kind still standing in Cook County.
The Mount Prospect Historical Society has been raising funds for the past three
years to relocate and preserve it.
The foundation has raised the funds
to pay for the move of the endangered building to a site next to its current museum,
the Dietrich Friedrichs house on Maple Street.
Preservation efforts are
part of the project. Chicago-based Norwood Builders has joined with Michael Chapman,
owner of Chicago Town Concrete, to donate a new foundation to help preserve the
structure.
"The people of Mount Prospect have been very supportive
of this project, making personal donations, attending fund-raisers and promising
in-kind donations of services like carpentry, electrical, roofing and painting,
once the building has been moved," said Gavin Kleespies, the Mount Prospect
Historical Society's executive director.
Sanctuary
Gets Honors for Socially Responsible Housing The Boston Society of Architects
has announced that Chicago's Sanctuary Place is a recipient of the first-ever
John. M. Clancy Award for Socially Responsible Housing.
In total the jury
selected eight projects for awards, judging them to be outstanding examples of
socially responsible housing for various reasons, of which architectural quality
was one. The jury also considered "degree of difficulty," programmatic
complexity, resource constraints, sustainability, site challenges and opportunities,
and community benefit.
Jurors applauded skillful interweaving of old buildings
and new construction; successful creation of functional, sunny, pleasant, yet
modest, living environments; and artful design of large-scale, high-density urban
projects.
The jury said it admired the Sanctuary Place's socially consequential
goals and idiosyncratic program - a four-story, masonry clad building on a Chicago
gray-field site to house 70 homeless women permanently in a therapeutic interior
environment.
In addition, the jury said the thoughtfully conceived architecture
and urban design of
Sanctuary Place yielded a number of commendable interior
and exterior attributes: simple massing and facades animated by lively masonry
patterns; interactive communal spaces; high ceilings and large windows; awnings
and solar roof panels; terraces and gardens; and play areas for visiting children.
In a building so attractive and user friendly, it's likely that women who live
here will be reluctant to leave, the jury said.
The jurors reviewed 56
projects from 20 states.
Northeast
Illinois AIA Names Honor Awards
Six new or renovated buildings in the
Chicago area have been recognized for their architectural excellence with Honor
Awards from the Northeast Illinois Chapter in Naperville of The American Institute
of Architects.
The winners were selected from 37 nominees in one of five
categories: Distinguished Building, Preservations/Adaptive Reuse, Residential,
Interiors and Divine Details/Architectural Ideas.
Five winners were nominated
in the Distinguished Building category while one was nominated in the Preservations/Adaptive
Reuse category.
The buildings cited for design excellence are the following:
The Niles Police Station in Niles, Naperville-based PSA-Dewberry architect, Park
Ridge-based Ragnar Benson Construction contractor.
Broadview Missionary
Baptist Church in Broadview, Chicago-based Harding Partners architect, Wood Dale-based
George Sollitt Construction Co. contractor.
The following projects received
merit in architecture honors:
Adams Central Elementary School in Monroe,
Ind., Harding Partners architect, Fort Wayne-based Michael Kinder and Sons contractor.
Altgeld Hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Elgin-based Burnidge Cassell
Associates architect, Lake Forest-based Vacala Construction Inc. contractor.
The Itasca Village Hall, Oak Brook-based FGM Architects Engineers architect, Elmhurst-based
International Contractors contractor.
Prairie Oak Elementary School
in Berwyn, FGM Architects Engineers architect, Viking Construction Management,
contractor.
Goettsch
Gets Contract For Block 37 TV Studio
Chicago-based Goettsch Partners has been
named to design a broadcast center for WBBM-TV/CBS 2 Chicago as part of the development
on Block 37 at 108 N. State St.
Groundbreaking ceremonies took place Nov.
15. CBS 2 will anchor the northeast corner of Washington and Dearborn streets
in an office tower, with a showcase streetfront studio facing Daley Plaza.
The
station will occupy the building's first five floors, comprising about 100,000
sq. ft.
The feature streetfront studio will enable crowds to watch live
local news broadcasts and other locally produced programs.
In addition
to newscasts, multiple large video displays will feature sporting events and entertainment
shows throughout the day, and electronic billboards will provide news headlines
around the clock. The studio's corner will become the new high-tech, street-level
location for CBS 2 Weather Control, giving the public a close-up look at the latest
weather tracking technology.
Hastings
& Chivetta Gets National Design-Build Kudo St. Louis-based Hastings & Chivetta
Architects is a recipient of the 2005 National Design-Build Award Competition,
receiving the highest honor in its category by the Washington, D.C.-based Design-Build
Institute of America for the Campus Recreation Center at Georgia Institute of
Technology.
Georgia Tech's design-build $43-million Campus Recreation
Center received the esteemed recognition in the Design-Build Rehabilitation/Renovation/Restoration
category. The Campus Recreation Center is an adaptive re-use and expansion of
the existing Olympic swimming and diving venue.
The 300,700 gross-sq.-ft.
facility includes a 50-meter competition pool, six-court gymnasium space, fitness
center, racquetball courts and a 500-vehicle, three-level parking deck.
Civil
Engineers Applaud HDR The Illinois Section of the American Society of Civil
Engineers Awards Committee selected Omaha, Neb.-based architecture firm HDR as
recipient of the 2005 Private Sector Employer Recognition Award. HDR was recognized
for its effort in supporting local, regional and national ASCE activities.
HDR
employees are encouraged to participate on committees, attend ASCE meetings and
seminars and prepare articles for publication in ASCE professional and technical
journals.
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