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Award - Merit Award

Project - University of Baltimore Liberal Arts and Policy Building

Category - Institutional

Project 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(s) - Paul Burk Photography; Alain Jaramillo

Jury Comments - Architects understood the existing building.  The insertions and stair addition are appropriately deferential.  Conforms to Secretary of Interior Guidelines, i.e. that the contemporary is of its time and differential from the historic.  Sections show how modern utility systems affecting floor thickness defer to thinness and lightness of the existing stair.  What’s new is modern, what’s existing is clear.  Instead of imitating, the modern elements are very distinct but quiet.