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DETROIT, April 25, 2005 – The American Institute of Architects Michigan (AIA
Michigan) will honor Ann Arbor-based David W. Osler Associates Inc.
Architects as Architectural Firm of the Year at the 2005 AIA Michigan Honor
Awards and Recognition Program, being held Friday, April 29 at the Royal
Park Place Hotel in Rochester Hills, MI.
The AIA
Michigan Architectural Firm of the Year Award is given to a firm that has
consistently produced distinguished architecture.
David W.
Osler Associates, Inc. was founded by David W. Osler, FAIA in 1958. The
firm’s distinguished accomplishments in the design of educational,
residential, commercial, governmental, religious and recreational facilities
have earned several honors, and the firm has been recognized its work in
historic preservation and site sensitivity.
The firm’s
projects include the Birmingham Unitarian Church, Albion College
International Center, Riverview City Hall, the Varsity Tennis Center and
Women’s Gymnastics Practice Facility on the University of Michigan campus,
and libraries in communities including Ann Arbor, Auburn Hills, Berkley,
Canton and East Lansing.
In addition to
being named 2005 AIA Michigan Firm of the Year, the firm has been the
recipient of numerous other awards, including several AIA Michigan Honor
Awards for projects including the Highland Township Public Library, the
Auburn Hills Public Library, Williams Research Company in Walled Lake, MI
and the Ann Arbor Golf & Outing Club, and for restoration work at Ann
Arbor’s Michigan Theater. It has also received the AIA/American Library
Association Library Building Award; awards of honor for various projects
from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the City of Novi; and
an historic preservation award from the Ann Arbor Historic District
Commission. The firm also was a finalist in the Vietnam Memorial
Competition in Washington, D.C. in 1983.
Firm principal
David W. Osler was elected to the American Institute of Architects College
of Fellows in 1981 and received the AIA Michigan Gold Medal, the highest
honor from AIA Michigan which can be bestowed upon an architect, in 1996.
Osler also has served on the American Institute of Architects National
Committee on Design.
Each year, AIA
Michigan members sponsor the Honor Awards Program to bring public attention
to examples of good design and to recognize the people who make significant
contributions to the built environment.
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