This year’s AIA Institute Honor Awards for Regional & Urban Design recognize outstanding achievements in an architect’s ability to contribute significantly to the quality of local environments through urban design, regional and city planning, and community development. The 2015 jury included Frank Fuller, FAIA, of Field Paoli, San Francisco; Karl Grice, AIA, of Grice Group, St. Louis; Anne-Marie Lubenau, AIA, of Bruner Foundation, St. Louis; Klaus Philipsen, FAIA, of ArchPlan, Baltimore; and Adam Thies, AICP, Director of the Department of Metropolitan Development, Indianapolis.
For more on each winning project,click the link in the project name to see it in ARCHITECT’s Project Gallery.
Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts District Master Plan, Beijing
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Washington, D.C.
Jury: “The project has dedicated significant resources to both the old and the new–it attempts to keep the old and find a strategy to work with it.”
The BIG U, New York
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Copenhagen
Jury: “This is such a pressing issue, so to have this kind of solution presented in such a clear way is remarkable.”
Government Center Garage Redevelopment, Boston
CBT Architects, Boston
Jury: “The plan reuses the garage in a positive way, shaping the new buildings around it to connect to the city. Without having said so, the project builds upon other urban design investment—mainly, the Greenway and the Big Dig—the city has made.”
Target Field Station, Minneapolis
EE&K, a Perkins Eastman company, New York
Jury: “This is a powerful piece of work, illustrating how a transit point can become more than a transit station.”
For more on each winning project,click the link in the project name to see it in ARCHITECT’s Project Gallery.
