2008 Honor Awards for Architecture

Private Residences Rank High in 2008 AIA Honor Awards for Interior Architecture
Four private residences won Interiors Honor Awards this year: Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects’ Central Park South Apartment, Randy Brown Architects’ Laboratory, Fougeron Architecture’s Tehama Grasshopper, and a private residence by Roszak/ADC. The other winners are William Rawn Associate Architects’ Center for Theatre and Dance, Vinci | Hamp Architects Inc.’s Illinois State Capitol Chamber Restoration, Lehrer Architects’ architecture office, Legorreta + Legorreta’s Hotel Boutique La Purificadora, Mithun’s Novelty Hill Januik Winery, and M. J. Neal Architects’ Anthony Nak Flagship Store.

University of Arkansas Community Design Center Dominates 2008 Urban Design Honor Awards
The University of Arkansas Community Design Center won three of the five 2008 AIA Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design. The winning projects are the University of Arkansas’s Habitat Trails, Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas, and Campus Hydroscapes; Cooper, Robertson, and Partners’ Zuccotti Park; and CIVITAS Inc.’s Los Angeles River Rehabilitation Master Plan.

Happy New Year!
Wishing all our members a healthy and prosperous 2008, bright with opportunity, abundance, and joy for all. Our New Year’s resolution continues to be to work hard toward improving AIArchitect to meet the needs of our hard-working members. Do you know any doers who ought to be interviewed for our Doer’s Profile? Any story ideas for practice topics you would like to see covered? Any projects of yours that we should see? It’s your newsletter—let us know how we can help you.