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This year’s AIA Interiors Honor
Award winners share the common thread of renovation and adaptive
reuse. These eight projects perform similar transformations,
either reinvigorating a historic building or brightening an
industrial one. Interior Architecture jury chair Lee F. Mindel,
FAIA, remarked that [the jurors] “saw a lot of ‘flying schreprels’
and ‘blobs,’ but the projects with simple, bold, elegant ideas
stood out.” Solutions range from inventive and high-tech to
traditional and rigorous. From the clever transformation of
a historic church into a performance space using acoustic
panels to augment the existing design, to relocating and enlivening
a modern, welcoming library in a formerly uninviting space,
these projects sought and found a high level of personal expression
beyond the trendy and predictable.
–Jane F. Kolleeny
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Carol and Carl Montante
Cultural Center,
Buffalo
Cannon Design
With a sensitive
series of gestures, the architect adapted this
1926 historic church into a 600-seat, multipurpose
performance space at a liberal arts college campus.
Photo © Tim Wilkes
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Pallotta TeamWorks
New Headquarters,
Los Angeles
Clive Wilkinson Architects
This inventive
solution resulted from an inspired vision for
a new workplace tempered by radical budget constraints.
Photo © Benny Chan/Fotoworks
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New York City Public
School 42, Queens, Library, Arverne,
N.Y.
Weiss/Manfredi Architects
The architect
moved the existing library from its former location
on the fourth floor to the first floor, adjacent
to the school’s main entrance and cafeteria, redefining
its place and purpose within the school.
Photo © Paul Warchol
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First Presbyterian
Church of Encino,
Encino, Calif.
Trevor Abramson, Abramson
Teiger Architects
This unique intervention
in an existing 1950s church served two goals—to
bring light into the interior and to create a
sense of closeness and reverie for the congregation.
Photo © Richard Barnes
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NAI Exhibition - Silent
Collisions: Morphosis Retrospective, Rotterdam,
the Netherlands
Morphosis
This exhibition addressed the crossroads
that architects are facing in the transition from
tangible, physical materials and modes of expression—drawings
and models—to the digital technologies that increasingly
dominate practice, blurring distinctions between
built form and design process.
Photo © Kim Zwarts
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Academic Center for
Student Athletes at Louisiana State University
, Baton Rouge,
La.
Trahan Architects
This interior renovation creates a sequence
of clean, clear spaces that pare down the 1927
architectural language to its essence.
[RECORD, November
2003, page 172] Additional
web coverage.
Photo © Tim Hursley
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American Meteorological
Society Editorial Offices, Boston
Anmahian Winton Architects
The architect transformed a historic barn
and carriage house previously used for storage
and staff meetings to new offices for the company’s
editorial staff.
[RECORD, June 2002, page 203] Additional
web coverage.
Photo © Peter Vanderwarker
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COop Editorial, Santa
Monica, Calif.
Pugh + Scarpa
The architect converted a single-story
structure, designed by Frank Gehry in 1963, into
a video-editing facility for the client. [RECORD,
September 2003, page 156] Additional
web coverage.
Photo © Marvin Rand
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