Annual Awards
Celebrate State's Architecture Diversity
The
richness of architectural diversity was highlighted earlier this year
when the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of
Architects selected six design projects for special recognition. The
winning designs were selected from a field of 100 entries submitted by
AIA members from across the state.
The architectural gems are as varied as an airport parking deck and
butterfly museum exhibit, a blacksmith’s shop and a church school, a
business interior showroom and a wildlife refuge center. Though vastly
differing in form and function, each project was deemed by a jury of
four professionals to have met or exceeded benchmarks of good
architecture.
Honor Awards, the highest recognition for excellence in design, went
to the firms of Cannon Architects, Raleigh, Roger Clark, FAIA,
consultant; Frank Harmon Architect, Raleigh; and Pearce Brinkley Cease
+ Lee, PA, Raleigh.
Merit Awards were presented to the Freelon Group Inc., with Walker
Parking Consultants, Research Triangle Park; Harmon; and
O’Brien/Atkins Associates, PA, Research Triangle Park.
Frank Harmon Architect led this year’s award-winning firms,
capturing two of the six prizes. Harmon has now won eight AIA North
Carolina Design Awards in the past five years. An Honor Award went for
his work on the Iron Studio at the Penland (N.C.) School of Crafts.
The Walter B. Jones Center for the Sounds at Pocosin Lakes National
Wildlife Refuge, Columbia, N.C., received a Merit Award.
Roger Clark, FAIA, of North Carolina State University, and Cannon
Architects, took home an Honor Award for Our Lady of Lourdes School
and Parish School Offices, Raleigh. Roger and Susan Cannon were last
year’s top award winners when they garnered two Honor Awards.
Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee, PA, received the third Honor Award for
Carolina Business Interiors Showroom, Research Triangle Park.
The Freelon Group Inc. and Walker Parking Consultants accepted a Merit
Award for the Raleigh-Durham International Airport parking deck. The
Freelon Group also captured the AIA North Carolina 2001 Firm Award.
O’Brien/Atkins Associates PA, was the recipient of a Merit Award for
the Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory at Durham’s Museum of Life
and Science.
The 2001 Awards Jury reviewed all entries and made its selections
during an April meeting at the office of Shook, a Charlotte design
firm. Jury members were: Aaron Betsky, curator of architecture,
design, and digital projects for the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art; Reed Kroloff, editor-in-chief of Architecture magazine; Mark
Robbins, director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts;
and Tucker Viemeister, director of research and development of the
design firm Razorfish.
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