AIA Detroit Design Awards

DETROIT ARCHITECTS EARN AWARDS

Team Detroit
Dearborn, MI
"Demonstrates the architects ability to translate a conceptual organization into a legible design and plan for infrastructure, collaboration and inevitable change. Innovative and economic use of color in support of way finding strategies that are artful and integral to the design."

Category:

Interior Architecture
Architect:

Gensler
Owner:

WPP Group
Contractor:

Turner Construction
Photographer:

 Chris Barrett, Hedrich Blessing

EnovateIT
Ferndale, MI

"Leverages materials of common industrial buildings in compelling ways. You just want to roll up your sleeves and go to work there! Co-tenancy strategy of joining instead of dividing spaces adds richness and texture. Re-utilization of a building type that often is demolished, illustrates that embodied energy is a key part of sustainable design"

Category:

Interior Architecture
Architect:

inFORM Studio
Owner:

Fred Calero
Contractor:

Sterling Contracting
Photographer:

 Justin Maconochie

Bagley Avenue Pedestrian Bridge
Detroit, MI
"Demonstrates the importance of the GSA’s Design Excellence initiatives. Begins the process of mitigating the highway’s devastating cut in the urban fabric. Monumental without overstatement. Demonstrates a commitment to an evolutionary design process. The design is ultimately a catalyst for change. We look forward to seeing substantial in-fill at the bridge’s touchdown points to truly knit and reconnect the urban fabric."

Category:

Unbuilt
Architect:

inFORM Studio
Owner:

MDOT
Contractor:

Toebe Construction
 

Lofts at 400 Parent Avenue
Royal Oak, MI
"Takes a building that appears to have no redeeming value and gives it life with minimum of means. Demonstrates an often overlooked greening strategy of recycling even the most mundane of structures."

Category:

Building
Architect:

McIntosh Poris Associates
Owner:

Proton Capital, LLC
Contractor:

Ronnisch Construction Group
Photographer:

Kevin Bauman Photography

William Atkinson Hall
Information and Technology Center
Jackson, MI
"This project transforms a late modern campus building into a dynamic new space for the College. By taking the cues from many of the original buildings, the existing buildings are given new life. The exterior design opens the internal program and commons to views and makes critical visual connections to adjacent buildings"

Category:

Building
Architect:

SHW Group
Owner:

Jackson Community College
Contractor:

Walsh Construction
Photographer:

Justin Maconochie

University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, MI

"A museum design that is for art, not in spite of it. Innovative structural solution in service to the open plan. New addition sits well with existing classical structure by taking an antithetical approach. At first glance this is cleanly and elegantly solved; with a closer look, complexity and richness emerge."

Category:

Building
Architect of Record:

Integrated Design Solutions
Design Architect:

 Allied Works Architecture, Portland, OR
Owner:

The University of Michigan
Contractor:

 Skanska USA Building Inc.
Photographer:

Jeremy Bitterman

Farmington Hills City Hall
Farmington Hills, MI
"Graphics of this unbuilt project are exceptional and will serve to communicate the project to the community. Representations clearly depict the information that was essential to decision making. The landscape is a key connector and a mechanism for unifying the site in sustainable ways. Rendering goes beyond the heroic and presents the design with a clear sense of place. This design strategy could be a template for many placeless suburban government complexes. Coherent and well thought out. We like the way the materials of the project are a driver for the plan. Meaningful sustainable solution that builds off what is already there through careful planning and phasing."

Category:

Unbuilt
Architect:

inFORM Studio
Owner:

City of Farmington Hills
Contractor: na
 

College of Education & Human Services
Mt. Pleasant, MI
"The project takes a deep program and plan of multiple collaborative departments and creates a clear cohesive whole. The breakdown of the building massing using contrasting recycled and sustainable materials provides a substantial expression of the collaborative spatial organization within. The building is a bold expression in space and material of the College’s commitment to high quality collaborative learning environments."

Category:

Building
Architect:

SHW Group
Owner:

Central Michigan University
Contractor:

Walsh Construction
Photographer:

Justin Maconochie

Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Gateway Master Plan
Trenton, MI
"It does not erase everything revealing a site that is a multilayered palimpsest of uses and conditions. Site plan looks at the short and long term effectively. The plan should serve to create a great ripple effect beyond the immediate site. Exemplary model project for the region by redefining relationships to land and water."

Category:

Urban Design
Architect:

Hamilton Anderson Associates
Owner:

Wayne County Division of Parks
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Contractor:

na
Photographer:

Hamilton Anderson Associates

Traverwood Library
Ann Arbor, MI
"Compelling and clear connection from the ecological history of the site and library. Success comes from its didactic approach to the site and the reuse of the Ash trees. Transcendent of the normal expressions of recycled materials by the way they are used to unify space. The remaining old forest becomes a great backdrop to the modern envelope. The commitment to minimizing the parking footprint while making the building accessible is important to the use of the site. "

Category:

Building
Architect:

inFORM Studio
Owner:

Ann Arbor District Library
Contractor:

O'Neal Construction
Photographer:

Justin Maconochie

Thal Residence
Birmingham, MI
"Unchanged and right at home over 25 years. Urbane, neighborly, sustainable, a modestly elegant guardian of art and hearth."

Category:

Twenty-five Year
Architect:

Luckenbach/Ziegelman Architects
Owner:

Bruce and Ilene Thal
Contractor:

Snyder and Synder
Construction Company
Photographer:

Dan Bartush
Robert L. Ziegelman, FAIA