The Design Awards Program
The AIA Maryland Design Awards competition occurs each year in July, with recognition of winning built and unbuilt projects at the Design Awards program in September.  AIA Maryland celebrates the design accomplishments of architects in Maryland with this annual event. The program is open to individual members and firms whose principals are members of AIA Maryland and honors designs in a variety of categories. The Design Awards program aims to encourage and recognize distinguished architectural achievement and focus public attention on the Architect's role in shaping the quality of life through design excellence.

Design Awards 2009

AIA Maryland recognized the architects, building owners, and general contractors of 18 building projects at an awards ceremony on September 9 at Historic London Town and Gardens Visitor Center and Museum in Edgewater. The award-winning projects were selected from a field of 113 total entries submitted by 42 firms representing AIA members across Maryland, Virginia and DC. Three awards were also bestowed to graduate and undergraduate students. The jury members, all from AIA North Carolina, were: Frank Harmon FAIA, Chair, Frank Harmon Architect PA; Robin Abrams AIA, ASLA, Director School of Architecture NCSU; Phil Freelon FAIA, The Freelon Group; Matt Griffith AIA, Frank Harmon Architect PA; and Ellen Weinstein AIA, Dixon Weinstein Friedlein.

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Click here to view list of winning projects.

2009 Participating Firms:

Ayers Saint Gross, Inc. Bennett Frank McCarthy Architects, Inc. Boggs & Partners Architects Bowie Gridley Architects Brennan + Company Architects Cauhaus Design Charles E. Anthony Architects Cho Benn Holback + Associates CSD Architects Cunningham | Quill Architects David Jameson Architect, Inc. Design Collective, Inc. Edifice Studio Frederick Ward Associates Gensler Grimm + Parker Architects GWWO, Inc./Architects Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, PC Hord Coplan Macht Lucas Associates Architects, PC Mancini Duffy Marks, Thomas Architects Matrix Settles McInturff Architects Mimar Architects, Inc. Murphy & Dittenhafer, Inc. Muse Architects Parameter, Inc. Purple Cherry Architects, P.C. Quinn Evans | Architects Robert M. Gurney, FAIA RTKL Associates, Inc. Sanders Designs, P.A. SmithGroup Tobias M. Sullivan, Architect Torchio Architects, Inc. Waldon Studio Architects & Planners, PC WDG Architecture Wiencek + Associates Architects + Planners Wilmot Sanz, Inc. WMCRP, Architects Ziger/Snead Architects, LLP

2009 Jury Team

Our deepest gratitude goes to our jurors who devoted their time and expertise in judging this year’s submissions. Seated left to right: Phil Freelon, Ellen Weinstein, Matt Griffith, Robin Abrams and Frank Harmon (Chair).

The Jury at work at the offices of The Freelon Group, Durham, NC:

LIST OF WINNING BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS
(Click on images for more information and photos)

Student Design Project Winners:

Award: Graduate Design Award
Entrant: Mahmoud Riad
Project: AL Masmaa': The Place for Listening
Project Type: Studio
Month/Year Completed: May 2009
School Name: University of Maryland, College Park
Faculty Sponsor: Peter Noonan, AIA, LEED AP, Professor of the Practice/Architecture

Award: Undergraduate Design Award
Entrant: Julia Mitchell
Project: Choreography of Space
Project Type: Studio/Self-Directed
Month/Year Completed: May 2009
School Name: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Faculty Sponsor: Michael Ermann, Associate Professor, Architecture 2-3 Chair

Award: Special Citation
Entrant: Beret Dickson
Project: Baltimore FarmWorks: Yielding Architecture for [Urban + Agri] Culture
Project Type: Self-Directed Project
Month/Year Completed: December 2008
School Name: University of Maryland
Faculty Sponsor: Isaac Williams, Assistant Professor, Architecture Program

Firm Design Project Winners:

PUBLIC BUILDING OF THE YEAR ─ Commercial
Project: American Brewery
Location: Baltimore, MD
Architect: Cho Benn Holback + Associates
Owner/Developer: Humanim and Synthesis (Owner's Representative)
Contractor: Struever Bros, Eccles & Rouse and Gotham Development
Photographer: Paul Burk Photography

HONOR ─ Institutional
Project: Smithsonian Institution, Pennsy Collections & Support Center
Location: Landover, MD
Architect: Gensler
Owner/Developer: Trammell Crow Company
Contractor: Harvey Cleary Builders
Photographer: Paul Warchol

HONOR ─ Institutional/Residential
Project: The Gateway, Maryland Institute College of Art
Location: Baltimore, MD
Architect: RTKL Associates Inc.
Owner/Developer: Maryland Institute College of Art
Contractor: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Photographer: David Whitcomb (RTKL); Paul Burk Photography

HONOR ─ Residential Architecture
Project: House on Hoopers Island
Location: Church Creek, MD
Architect: David Jameson Architect, Inc.
Owner/Developer: Richard Bernstein and Michael Minnemann
Contractor: CJ&E Construction
Photographer: Paul Warchol

HONOR ─ Residential Architecture
Project: The River House
Location: Jamaica, Virginia
Architect: Ziger/Snead LLP, Architects
Owner/Developer: Private Residence
Contractor: Connemara General Contractors
Photographer: Alain Jaramillo; Douglas Bothner (Ziger/Snead)

MERIT ─ Institutional
Project: Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Architect: Ayers Saint Gross, Inc.
Owner/Developer: The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Contractor: Barton Malow Company
Photographer: Alan Karchmer, Architectural Photographer

MERIT ─ Institutional
Project: University of Baltimore Liberal Arts and Policy Building
Location: Baltimore, MD
Architect: Cho Benn Holback + Associates
Owner/Developer: University of Baltimore and
University of Maryland Baltimore (AE Project Management)
Contractor: J. Vinton Schafer & Sons, Inc.
Photographer: Paul Burk Photography; Alain Jaramillo

MERIT ─ Institutional
Project: Boonsboro Library
Location: Boonsboro, MD
Architect: Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects
Owner/Developer: Washington County Free Library
Contractor: Callas Contractors, Inc.
Photographer: John Allen

MERIT ─ Interior Architecture
Project: Gensler Baltimore
Location: Baltimore, MD
Architect: Gensler
Owner/Developer: Gensler, Architecture, Design & Planning PC
Contractor: Wilhelm Commercial Builders, Inc.
Photographer: Michael Moran Photography, Inc.

MERIT ─ Residential Architecture
Project: Brooklyn Green
Location: Baltimore, MD
Architect: Cho Benn Holback + Associates
Owner/Developer: Brooklyn & Curtis Bay Coalition, Inc.
Contractor: Southway Builders Design Build General Contractor) & Furbish Company (Design Build Partner)
Photographer: Paul Burk Photography

MERIT ─ Residential Architecture
Project: Randecker House
Location: Vienna, VA
Architect: McInturff Architects
Owner/Developer: Victor and Lorraine Randecker
Contractor: MT Puskar Construction
Photographer: Julia Heine (McInturff Architects)

MERIT ─ Residential Architecture
Project: Plaza Lofts 22
Location: Hyattsville, MD
Architect: WDG Architecture
Owner/Developer: University Town Center
Contractor: The Whiting Turner Contracting Company
Photographer: Judy Davis, Hoachlander-Davis Photography

CITATION ─ Commercial
Project: Torchio Building
Location: Centreville, MD
Architect: Torchio Architects, Inc.
Owner/Developer: HOOHONKA, LLC, Gregory Torchio & Phyllis Johnston, Partners
Contractor: Torchio Architects, Inc.
Photographer: Existing Light, LLC

CITATION ─ Unbuilt (Non-Commissioned)
Project: upGRADE
Location: N/A Design Competition
Architect: Hord Coplan Macht
Owner/Developer: Architecture for Humanity Open Architecture Challenge
Contractor: N/A
Photographer: N/A

CITATION ─ Institutional
Project: Temple Beth Shalom
Location: Arnold, MD
Architect: Charles E Anthony Architects, PC
Owner/Developer: Temple Beth Shalom
Contractor: Atlantic Builders Group, Inc.
Photographer: Anne Gummerson Photography

CITATION ─ Institutional
Project: Harpers Ferry Train Station
Location: Harpers Ferry, WV
Architect: GWWO, Inc./Architects
Owner/Developer: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Contractor: Lumus Construction, Inc.
Photographer: Robert Creamer

CITATION ─ Institutional
Project: The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Architect: Wiencek + Associates Architects + Planners
Owner/Developer: Montgomery College
Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease
Photographer: Eric L. Taylor, Taylor Design & Photography, Inc.

CITATION ─ Institutional
Project: Nemours Mansion and Gardens Visitor Center
Location: Rt. 141 and Alopocas Drive, Wilmington, DE
Architect: Ayers Saint Gross, Inc.
Owner/Developer: The A.I. du Pont de Nemours Foundation
Contractor: Wohlsen Construction
Photographer: Keenpress: Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson;
Grace Gary and Alan Karchmer

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