July 20, 2007
  AIA West Virginia Honors Five Outstanding Projects
Chapter marks 85th anniversary at gala celebration
Some 300 members of AIA West Virginia celebrated the national AIA’s 150th anniversary week as their own by coinciding their component’s 85th anniversary with national Architecture Week, April 8–14. A high note of this year’s celebration for architects from the Mountain State was their anniversary and awards gala held April 14 in Charleston, at which five projects were recognized as winners of the AIA West Virginia 2006 Design Awards. A proclamation issued by Governor Joe Manchin, declaring April 8–14, as Architecture Week in West Virginia, hit another high note for the chapter.

Energy Savings Meets Adaptive Reuse in the NDSU Architecture and Arts School
Michael J. Burns Architects Ltd. faced a quartet of issues to orchestrate an adaptive reuse of an historic warehouse into North Dakota State University’s Visual Arts and Architecture School, which they refer to as “NDSU Downtown.” The Fargo project is designed to the Secretary of the Interior's Guidelines to Historic Rehabilitation to obtain federal and state tax credits, is LEED® Certified, meets university programming requirements, and offers lessons in historic preservation to the art and architecture students within.

Holl-designed Swiss Embassy Garners RIBA Award
On June 22, Steven Holl Architects (SHA) was awarded two Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International Awards for Architecture 2007, one for the New Residence at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, D.C. Commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for Building and Logistics, the 25,000-square-foot building replaces the previous ambassador residence and was completed in September 2006.

 

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