Read about the Design Building at UMass Amherst and it’s unique Mass Timber Construction on the Architects Newspaper. Read the full article and see the most recent construction photos here.
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst Design Building was honored with a 2016 Green Good Design Award. The Green Good Design Award program is presented by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.
Originally founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. to promote and foster a greater public understanding and acceptance for Modern Design. The 2016, GREEN GOOD DESIGN’s goal is to bestow international recognition to those outstanding individuals, companies, organizations, governments, and institutions – together with their products, services, programs, ideas, and concepts-that have forwarded exceptional thinking and inspired greater progress toward a more healthier and more sustainable universe. See the full list of winners here
ARCHITECT Magazine featured the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Design Building on their Projects Gallery. At 87,000 sf, the Design Building will be the largest timber building of its size and scale in the Northeast United States when it is completed in November.
The new facility brings together the previously dispersed departments of Landscape Architecture, Architecture, and Building Technology programs, and will be a dynamic space of exchange, collaboration, and experiment, celebrating a shared commitment to sustainability. Read the full article here
Josiah Stevenson, Principal, has been elected the 2016 President-Elect of the Boston Society of Architects (BSA). Josiah has been an active BSA member since 1987, having served as its Commissioner of Design, sat on the Board of Directors from 2011–2014; served on the Honors & Awards Committee from 2008–2011; and was Chair in 2012. Recently, Josiah presented the firm’s work as part of the AIA Omaha 2016 Lecture Series and was a jury member for the Northern Avenue Bridge Ideas Competition sponsored by the City of Boston and the Boston Society of Architects.
The Ohio State University East Regional Chilled Water Plant is featured in the March 2016 issue of Architectural Record. The magazine describes the building as “elegant, efficient, discreet, rigorous yet delicate” and ” an exercise in both elegance and efficiency.”
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The Ohio State University East Regional Chilled Water Plant has been shortlisted for a 2015 World Architecture News (WAN) Metal in Architecture Award. The WAN Metal in Architecture Awards celebrate designs, whether large or small, across the whole metal spectrum including: Steel, Tin, Zinc, Lead, Aluminium, Nickel and Copper.
This award recognizes the increasingly high standards within metal design and construction, highlighting the structural and innovative possibilities of metal in architecture. Of the over 30 projects submitted worldwide, six were selected for the shortlist. The Jury noted the “very impressive effort with a tricky brief…a clever way of cloaking a difficult beast.”
Read about all shortlisted projects here
The Ohio State University East Regional Chilled Water Plant was awarded a 2016 Design Citation as part of the Boston Society of Architects Honor Awards program. The awards were announced at the 5th annual BSA Awards Gala held at the InterContinental Hotel in Boston.
Read about all the award winners here.
Josiah Stevenson FAIA, LEED AP BD+C led the 2016 AIA Institute Honor Award Jury as the Jury Chair and helped to select the 11 well-deserving projects.
The Institute Honor Awards program recognizes achievements for a broad range of architectural activity to elevate the general quality of architecture practice, establish a standard of excellence against which all architects can measure performance, and inform the public of the breadth and value of architecture practice. See the award winners here.
Jane Weinzapfel and Yu-Liang Hsu were awarded an Honorable Mention for their design for the Peace Corps National Commemorative Design Competition.
The two-stage, national design competition aimed to select an artistically exceptional design concept for a permanent commemorative work in the heart of Washington, DC. The competition provided designers from all across the United States an opportunity to create a compelling work of public art that will be bold and inspirational. Read more about the competition and the finalists here