October 5, 2007
  AIA North Carolina Bestows Gold Medal on Paul Boney
Recognizing his distinguished career of extraordinary accomplishments as an architect, AIA North Carolina named Paul Davis Boney, FAIA, as this year’s recipient of that chapter’s highest honor, the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal. Boney and his two cousins were the third generation to lead the eponymous Wilmington-based firm their grandfather, Leslie Boney Sr., formed in 1922 and subsequently passed to his three sons. Boney Architects merged with Charleston, S.C.-based LS3P Associates Ltd. in 2005.

WMF Launches Prize to Honor Modernist Preservation
The World Monuments Fund is accepting nominations until November 15 for the first World Monuments Fund®/Knoll Modernism Prize, which will be awarded in summer 2008 to a design professional or firm in recognition of an innovative design solution that preserves or enhances a Modern landmark.

Giving Families Shelter and Comfort
Ronald McDonald House under construction in Illinois
Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana (RMHC-CNI) is working together with Advocate Christ Medical Center and Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., to raise $6.82 million to construct their newest Ronald McDonald House® just across the street from the hospital. Designed by two Chicago-based architecture firms, Constantine Vasilios & Associates Ltd. and architectureisfun Inc., the 22,000-square-foot structure will resemble an inviting, gabled lodge in the woods designed to give anxious families whose children are in treatment in the hospital a place of refuge.

 

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