 AIA Westchester/Mid-Hudson Honors Area Architecture
An AIA Westchester/Mid-Hudson jury selected six projects for Honor or High Honor Awards for design excellence. Chapter members celebrated the awardees—four residences, one library addition and alteration, and one dance conservatory renovation—and their architects at the component’s Celebration of Architecture program in December. 
 Design with a World View
AU International Service School evaluates global impact of new facility
The American University School of International Service (SIS) in Washington, D.C., considered it essential that its new academic facility embody its educational and civic ideals of promoting peace in the world, providing free access to information, harmonizing with the natural world, and enhancing human health. Created in 1958 to promote global thinking and service, the SIS is now the largest school of international relations in the country, if not the world, says SIS Dean Louis Goodman, PhD. Despite its growth from 80 to 3,000 students, the SIS today remains in its original facility with faculty and staff spread throughout the campus. To provide adequate and appropriate spaces for the school, the AU SIS hired William McDonough and Partners, with Quinn Evans Architects, to design its new 75,000-square-foot facility, centrally located on the main quadrangle at one of the city’s most well-traversed intersections.
 Historic Renovation in Raleigh Hits LEED Platinum
Inherently green renovations rarely achieve high LEED rating
Tise-Kiester Architects took eight neglected buildings in downtown Raleigh, N.C., and created a Class-A facility for owner Empire Hardhat. Cherokee Investment Corporation, a private equity firm that redevelops brownfields is the largest tenant in the 48,000-square-foot space. To visually and concretely express their mission and values, Cherokee worked with Tise-Kiester to create one of the world’s few LEED Platinum historic facilities.
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