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2003 AIA Colorado Design Awards
The Colorado chapter of The American Institute of Architects
honored architectural excellence award recipients at its annual
Design Awards Program, held as part of the AIA WMR Design
Conference at the Beaver Creek Park Hyatt on Nov. 15.
This year, the design awards jury was led by Bob Ivy, FAIA,
editor-in-chief of Architectural Record magazine. Other distinguished
jurors included Christian Bjone, Jim Childress, FAIA; Deborah
Berke; and Alexander Gorlin. The awards committee was chaired
by Alan Ford, AIA, of Denver's Hutton Ford Architects.
Chapter Honor Awards
25-Year Award
Vail Equipment Building Microwave Tower
RNL Design
Architect of the Year
Cab Childress, FAIA, PhD, Emeritus
University of Denver Architects' Office
Firm of the Year
David Owen Tryba Architects
Honor Awards
Built Architecture
Anderson Mason Dale Architects
in association with
Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK)
Alfred Arraj United States Courthouse.
Jury Comment: "These are particularly difficult building
types to do because of the security issues and the multiple
layers of circulation that must be accommodated. To solve
it functionally is very hard and then to make it elegant is
particularly impressive."
Built Architecture
Semple Brown Design PC
Stapleton Neighborhood Park Bathhouse
Jury Comment: "In part, what we have admired in several
projects is restraint. It is the moment, and just enough -
and not one ounce more - and that's part of what is to be
admired here is the economy of means for a modest building
appropriately achieved, combined with an artfulness."
Built Architecture
Roth Sheppard Architects
Adams County Communications Center
Jury Comment: "There is a full architectonic resolution
because we are reacting to, in part, the three-dimensionality
of this project - the way that the architecture is carrying
all the way through up into the heights through the clerestory
windows, up into the voids. Through all of the pieces and
parts, it is not planar; it is not surficial; it is something
integral."
Merit Awards
Unbuilt Architecture
Studio b architects
Burlinggame Affordable Housing Competition
Jury Comment: "It is like an old western town, very temporary,
gently sitting on the land, very quick and affordable, and
yet a nice and inviting place to be."
Built Architecture
Cottle Graybeal Yaw Architects
Smithburg Residence
Jury Comment: "There are enough traditional, formal elements
that allow the building to say 'house,' but at the same time,
to be composed of what one might call modern components, as
in the glass wall of the living space...this is a really successful
weaving of modern and traditional forms in the making of a
house today."
Built Architecture
Faleide Architects PC
Crowder House
Jury Comment: "Architecturally, it is very powerful the
way these two elements interact, and also in its use of materials.
It is very inventive in a very small house."
Built Architecture
David Owen Tryba Architects and
RNL Design
Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building
Jury Comment: "The facade is nicely articulated."
Built Architecture
CSNA Architects
Integrated Learning Center
Jury Comment: "It is elegant enough to make a gateway
to the school, but quirky enough that probably junior and
high school students will find it appealing rather than off-putting.
Whimsical is usually a bad work in architecture, but this
has a spirit of fun without descending into whimsy."
Built Interiors
Anderson Mason Dale Architects
in association with the Office of the University Architect
- Cab Childress, FAIA, and Mark Rodgers, AIA
Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver
Jury Comment: "This shows unrepentant enthusiasm for
material and construction - the quirky scale and colors are
great."
Citation Awards
Built Interiors
Burkettdesign Inc.
American Skandia.
Jury Comment: "This is well planned."
Built Interiors
Bennett Wagner & Grody, Architects
PC
Architect's Studio/Office
Jury Comment: "This architect's office is really a keeper."
Built Architecture
Roth Sheppard
Brighton Police Dept. and Municipal Court
Jury Comment: "Towns should be rewarded for doing something
other than out-of-the-catalog police stations."
Built Architecture
Root Rosenman Architects
Girls Inc. of Metro Denver
Jury Comment: "There are little urban moves which have
value."
Built Architecture
Brendle APV and Savage-Ver Ploeg
and Associates
Johnston Public Library, Johnston, Iowa
Jury Comment: "There is something beautifully simple
and elegant here, and the way it sits on the prairie is a
nice thing."
Built Architecture
Anderson Mason Dale Architects
in association with the Office of the University Architect
- Cab Childress, FAIA, and Mark Rodgers, AIA
Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver
Jury Comment: "A Mannerist response to the fundamental
issue of how you bring meaning to a place."
Built Architecture
Faleide Architects PC
St. Mary's Catholic School K-8
Jury Comment: "The client program really comes through
well here."
Built Architecture
Buchanan Yonushewski Group LLC
Water Tower Lofts
Jury Comment: "The most successful buildings in this
area are really simple. The old warehouses are simple buildings.
"
Built Architecture
Richard Epstein Architects Inc.
in association with David Swoboda, AIA; Todd Henderson, Assoc.
AIA; and Laura Greenfield
Boulder County Recycling Center
Jury Comment: "This matches my fantasy of Denver, driving
down the road and finding an old abandoned mining shaft."
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