
The Teaching Dairy Barn at Cornell University, gold medal winner at the 2013 AIA Design Excellence Awards | Photo: Halkin Mason Photography
With a ceremony last night at the Loews Hotel, the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Architects presented this year’s Awards for Design Excellence.
Erdy McHenry took big honors with a Gold Medal for their Teaching Dairy Barn at Cornell University (pictured above), with Awards for their Vertical Screen Headquarters and Cira Sky Green, under construction now at Cira Centre South. DIGSAU received Awards for a number of projects too, including the Pavilion and Children’s Discovery Garden at Sister Cities Park, the Margaret Passmore Trickey Building at Frankford Friends School, and the Schuler Residence. Additional winners included EwingCole, Interface Studio Architects, Wallace Roberts & Todd, Claflen Associates, and others.
Individual awards were given to Mary Werner DeNadai, of John Milner Architects, for distinguished service, Denise Cauffman and Brian Szymanik, for 2013 Young Architect(s), and Aileen K. Roberts, who received the inaugural Paul Philippe Cret Award for her leadership with the Barnes Museum Building Committee. Stanev Potts Architects won the Philadelphia Emerging Architecture Prize.
For the complete list of this year’s winners, see below.
GOLD MEDAL
FIRM: Erdy McHenry Architecture
WINNING PROJECT: Cornell University Teaching Dairy Barn
HONOR AWARDS, BUILT
DIGSAU
WINNING PROJECTS: The Margaret Passmore Trickey Building, Frankford Friends School; Pavillion and Children’s Discovery Garden at Sister Cities Park
ISA – Interface Studio Architects
WINNING PROJECT: Flexhouse
Plumbob
WINNING PROJECT: Belfield Homes
MERIT AWARDS, BUILT
DIGSAU
Schuler Residence
Erdy McHenry Architecture
WINNING PROJECT: Vertical Screen Headquarters
EwingCole
WINNING PROJECTS: Technology and Engineering Development Facility, Jefferson Laboratories; Andrew G. Truxal Library, Anne Arundel Community College
Friday Architects/Planners
WINNING PROJECT: Kline and Specter Squash Center, Drexel University
KieranTimberlake
WINNING PROJECTS: Charles David Keeling Apartments, University of California San Diego; Center City Building, University of North Carolina Charlotte
KSS Architects
WINNING PROJECT: Education and Outreach Center, Eden Autism Services
MERIT AWARD, BUILT, DIVINE DETAIL
Stanev Potts Architects and Jill and David Levi
WINNING PROJECT: “Light Box” Stairwell
MERIT AWARD, BUILT, INTERIORS
Tantillo Architecture
WINNING PROJECT: Sparta Systems
MERIT AWARD, BUILT, MASTER PLANNING
MGA Partners Architects, in association with OLIN
WINNING PROJECT: Master Plan and College Commons, Franklin & Marshall College
MERIT AWARD, BUILT, PRESERVATION
Voith & Mactavish Architects
WINNING PROJECT: Oxford Community Center
HONOR AWARDS, UNBUILT
Erdy McHenry Architecture
WINNING PROJECT: Cira Sky Green
Jacobs KlingStubbins
WINNING PROJECT: Information Science Building
MERIT AWARDS, UNBUILT
Wallace Roberts & Todd
WINNING PROJECT: Hoover-Mason Trestle
Wallace Roberts & Todd in association with O’Donnell & Naccarato
WINNING PROJECT: 8th and Filbert Streetscape and Parking Design
MERIT AWARDS, UNBUILT, URBAN PLANNING
Claflen Associates, Architects + Planners
WINNING PROJECT: Skyplane Access Study
Just FYI, I believe the young architect is Denise Thompson; she works for the firm Francis Cauffman.