October 17, 2008
  AIA Richmond Honors Six Projects
AIA Richmond is pleased to announce the winners of the chapter’s 2008 honor awards, merit awards, and individual awards. The program recognizes design excellence achieved by the chapter’s members. The prestigious jury from Philadelphia—Saul Jabbawy, AIA, Ewing Cole Architects; Richard L. Maimon, AIA, Aracely Coronado Kieran-Timberlake Associates LLP; Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA, John Milner Architects, Inc.; and John Chase, AIA, Ewing Cole Architects—awarded three honor awards and three merit awards. Additionally, the chapter named the recipients of its individual awards for service.

Historic Friends Seminary Turns Quirky Spaces into Usable, Accessible Places
Designers help expand oldest continuous K-12 co-ed school in NYC
The renovation to the historic Friends Seminary, a 220-year-old Quaker school in Manhattan, improves circulation, accessibility, and navigation among previously incongruent areas. The first phase of the multimillion-dollar project encompasses 27,000 square feet of the school and affected four of the eight historically significant buildings within the complex. Levien & Company, the project management firm representing the owners, worked with a team that included Tinmouth Chang Architecture (formerly Helfand Architecture) and Lehr Construction Corp., all of New York City, to retain the character of the original buildings while modernizing circulation.

Going Green on a Budget
California-based EcoTimber, provider of sustainable wood products for green buildings, recently opened its new two-story LEED®-CI Bay Area headquarters in Richmond. The EcoTimber building was designed and built by Gensler on a restricted budget. The design is targeting LEED Silver.

 

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