2019 Award WInners
Architectural Honor Awards / Building
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PLY+
St. Mary Chapel
“Design vocabularies and light reflections bring a peaceful and optimistic feeling, creating an atmosphere of poetry. A cross is “borrowed” from the existing nearby hospital and as a result, the sculptural volumes become abstract objects which successfully harmonize spiritual and cultural traditions.”
Architect-of-Record: PLY+, Ann Arbor MI
Liturgical Space Consultant: Fr. Gilbert Sunghera S.J. of UDM's Liturgical Space Consulting Service
Structural Engineer: SDI Structure, Ann Arbor MI
MEP Engineer: IMEG Corp, Chicago IL
Civil Engineer: Nederveld, Ann Arbor MI
Lighting Consultant: Illuminart, Troy MI
Acoustics Consultant: Arcgeometer, Ann Arbor MI
Construction Manager: Granger Construction
General Contractor: Granger Construction -
SmithGroup
Mike Ilitch School of Business
“The strategic siting combined with subtle angular direction both in plan and section creates a symbiotic relationship between education and profession, telegraphing the future of empirical education for both program and space.”
Client: Wayne State University
General Contractor: The Christman Company + LS Brinker Joint Venture
Architectural Photographer: James Ewing
Architectural Honor Awards / Interiors
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SmithGroup
LinkedIn Detroit Office
“A large scale, cohesive interior that achieved a harmonious balance between a bold corporate identity and soft intentional areas that provide reprieve from the buzz of the communal work spaces.”
Client: LinkedIn
Environmental Graphics: Gensler
Mill work: Mod Interiors
General Contractor: L.S. Brinker
Architectural Photographer: Justin Maconochie
Architectural Honor Awards / Small Project
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HED
Aaron Friedman Marine Hydrodynamics Center
“A drab circulation space is successfully reinvented to activate the study of naval design using captivating back-lit historic imagery and finely detailed wood and glass exhibit boxes.”
Client: University of Michigan
General Contractor: Brix Corporation
Structural, Mechanical, & Electrical Engineer: HED
Glass Fabricator: Edwards Glass
Glass Graphics Coordinator: Imagio Glass
Architectural Photographer: James Haefner -
inFORM Studio
Pewabic Pottery Expansion
“This monolithic box allows the occupant to experience the exterior as voyeur allowing provocative peeks as what is an otherwise ordinary structure. The continuous shift of pulling and pushing the masonry creates a phenomenological condition where commonplace materials transform the building’s envelope from static to kinetic, implying a “curtain-like” condition for the entrance, drawing the occupant through the building.”
Client: Pewabic Pottery
General Contractor: Sachse
Architectural Photographer: Jason Keen -
Et al. Collaborative + Detroit Collaborative Design Center
8869 Avis
“This community headquarters is a comprehensive small project that considers the relationship between place and its community stakeholders as a critical component of the architecture. Recognizing the need for this community space to open up and hold the corner of the site, the project creatively utilizes visual arts to reflect the context of the neighborhood and the voice of its people in its design and programming. As a small project this building does so many of the little things right in its pursuit of cultivating community.”
Client: Inside Southwest Detroit
General Contractor: Michigan Alterations & Construction Services
MEP Engineer: MA Engineering
Structural Engineering: Robert Darvas Associates
Muralists: TEAD, Freddy Diaz, Pherz
Steel Fabrication: Diseños
Architectural Honor Awards / Sustainable Design
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Stantec Architecture Inc.
Strong Hall Renovation
“The most sustainable building is often the one that's already there. This project shows how mundane existing buildings that might otherwise be torn down can transformed into attractive and efficient places for people.”
Client: Eastern Michigan University
Technology/AV: Wright & Hunter
General Contractor: Clark Construction Company
Architectural Photographer: Justin Maconochie -
ROSSETTI
Louis Armstrong Stadium
“Nothing can be more delightful than a welcome breeze--but instead of simply drawing "well-intentioned arrows", the design team used computer simulation to develop an approach that provides comfort beautifully.”
Client: United States Tennis Association
Structural Engineer: Geiger Engineers
Construction Engineer: WSP Flack & Kurtz
Civil Engineer: de Bruin Engineering
Landscape Consultant: RGR Landscape
Consultants: AVVIT Consulting + FP&C Consultants
General Contractor: Hunt Construction
Architectural Photographer: Rafael Gamo -
SmithGroup + Ennead Architects
University Biological Sciences Building & Natural History Museum
“Like an accordion being pulled apart to let in air, this design divides its massing into three clear blocks and pulls them apart to let in light, drawing people together.”
Architect of Record: SmithGroup
Design Architect: Ennead Architects
Client: University of Michigan
General Contractor: Barton Malow
Architectural Photographers: Aislinn Weidele, Bruce Damonte, James Haefner
Architectural Honor Awards / Technology
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SmithGroup
Emory University Hospital Bridges
“Simultaneously quiet and bold, this is an elegant solution stitches together a campus of buildings divided by a busy road, showing the power of data-informed design to use materials efficiently and beautifully.”
Client: Emory Healthcare
Program Manager: BDR Partners
Mechanical & Plumbing: WSP USA
Civil: Southern Civil Engineers
Structural: Walter P Moore
General Contractor: McCarthy Building Companies
Architectural Photographer: Brian Robbins Photography – Interiors
Architectural Honor Awards / Urban Design
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SmithGroup
Urban District Plan
“A vision of downtown that respects the scale and communal nature of the city, at its core. Through process and design the plan leans into the values of open space planning while integrating a distinct design voice that supports both large scale and smaller scale intimate opportunities for community members to address the city.”
Client: DTE Energy
Engagement Partner: Interboro
