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Award - Public Building of the Year Award

Project - American Brewery

Project Location - Baltimore, MD

Category - Commercial; Public Building of the Year

Architects - Cho Benn Holback + Associates, Inc.

Owner/Developer - Humanim and Synthesis (Owner's Representative)

Contractor - Struever Bros, Eccles & Rouse and Gotham Development

Photographer(s) - Paul Burk Photography

Jury Comments - The most sustainable act is to save and restore an existing building.  Here the client and architect have created a catalyst for revitalizing a neighborhood. Pumping new life into a venerable building that was abandoned for thirty years. The architect did just enough, but not too much:  knowing when to stop. Some very sensitive insertions inside the building reveal its original materials of wood and masonry give a tactile sense of history.