January 25, 2008
  FROM OUR FRIENDS AT AIA VERMONT
Eight Projects Honored in the Green Mountain State
AIA Vermont is pleased to introduce you to the recipients of its 2007 Design Awards Program, which were honored on December 6 at the chapter’s annual meeting. Three jurors from AIA Rhode Island—Kathleen Bartels, AIA; Derek Bradford, AIA; and Stephen White, AIA—chose seven award recipients from among 43 entries; an eighth recipient was selected as a People’s Choice Award. Candidate projects by architects registered and residing in Vermont are eligible in 10 categories and can be located anywhere in the world. Six of this year’s winners are in Vermont, one is in Costa Rica, and one is in El Salvador.

D.C. Architect Suman Sorg’s Neighborhood Modernism Gains a Foothold in the Nation’s Capital
Will yuppies reshape Washington’s conservative architecture environs?
Sorg and Associates’ Visio and Murano projects in a gentrified neighborhood are contemporary Modernist condos that draw their forms from neighborhood mainstays (row houses and a neighborhood church) and also knit these structures together with a transitional and proportional decrease in scale. These condos and several others are creating a pocket of contemporary residential architecture in and around an area that has become a mecca for young professionals seeking out its cultural and nightlife attractions.

Westlake Reed Leskosky Restores Balboa Theatre in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter
The historic Balboa Theatre in San Diego, a 1920s structure that blends Spanish Revival and Mediterranean styles, reopened this month as part of the revitalization of the city’s Gaslamp Quarter. The 44,000-square-foot theater, on the National Register of Historic Places, is part of the Gaslamp Quarter redevelopment by the Centre City Development Corporation (CCDC), a nonprofit corporation created by the City of San Diego. The $26 million restoration project took several phases and dates back as far as 1986. Phoenix-based Westlake Reed Leskosky led the restoration.

 

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