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.