Award of Merit - K-12 Education Patriots Hall is a new high school facility, 111,450-sq-ft in total, on the Brookfield Academy campus. Photo: Mark Heffron div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" A prominent entry tower welcomes building users into a lobby with a skylight, acoustically-isolated student lockers and an open stairway that puts visual emphasis on the college classroom. The academic wing wraps around a two-story sky-lit library and includes science labs and flexible classroom configurations. An art department, performing arts studio and two-station gymnasium round-out the academy’s dedication to the arts and athletics in addition to high academic standards.
Award of Merit - Higher Education/Research The Plant Conservation Center is a world-class laboratory designed to serve plant conservation science research as well as educate the public. Photo: Michelle Litvin div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Ten laboratories and offices are the primary programmatic elements along with a green roof garden, herbarium, seed vault, seminar/conference rooms and a plant science library. All of the educational spaces have a direct connection to nature, emphasizing the basis of the research conducted in the facility. The Plant Conservation Science Center was constructed within an existing flood plane. Chicago Botanic Garden and the design
Award of Merit - Architectural Design This project required the massive re-structuring of a two-story type III-B building to house as assembly use for a entire 16,000-sq-ft structure. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Previously, the building had housed a number of mercantile units and contained large shear walls and core elements in the way of the desired first floor program. The building is now home to a live blues venue in Chicago, Buddy Guy’s Legends. Demolition of the old building core while protecting the north wall from collapse was a major challenge, particularly that all of the protection had
Project of the Year - Civil/Public Works (Tie) The City of Muskego’s Well No. 13 is both a stylish public works building and a high capacity municipal well. Photo: Westhauser Photography div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Designed to blend seamlessly into an upscale subdivision, the complex architectural style and landscaping give no hint that up to 2,200 gallons per minute of radium-free water is being pumped to serve the needs of this growing community. When the Well No. 13 site was identified, the city had a need to generate between 500 and 700 gpm of radium-free water. Well No.
Project of the Year - Transportation (Tie)In fall 2008, construction began for the replacement of the nearly 50-year-old College Avenue Bridge in Appleton, Wis. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" A major challenge during design and construction was the sheer height of the bridge deck above the water level. The bridge deck is 75 ft above the water. On many bridges a small lift on a barge can be used to reach inaccessible construction areas. This was not a luxury available on this bridge. Careful planning was done so the majority of the work could be installed from the bridge
Award of Merit - Higher Education/Research The project team for the Media Production Center at Columbia College in Chicago successfully navigated all the issues in developing one of the most advanced learning centers for film and interactive media arts in the nation. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" In the end, the team pursued LEED Gold criteria and created the college’s first purpose-built building. Columbia College wanted a professional quality media teaching facility that would encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among students and faculty. Simply locating the sound stages in the same building as the motion capture studio provides the proximity that
Award of Merit - Renovation/Restoration Founded more than100 years ago, this Reform congregation decided to follow the migration patterns of its congregants by relocating to its fourth home in Deerfield, Ill. Photo: Michael David Rose Photography div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The available property was part of a six-building, one-story office complex in an accessible location. The owner purchased three of the buildings, encompassing 70,000 sq ft of space. The project team realized from the beginning that this was not an ordinary construction project. The $18-million project was the culmination of several years of programming, design, fundraising and execution.
Award of Merit - Renovation/Restoration This project called for the conversion of a former state automotive emissions testing facility into a corporate office headquarters. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" This utilitarian box was reconfigured to provide interior office space in the area that was once drive-thru automotive testing bays. A new curvilinear fa�ade expanded the street frontage and created a sophisticated entry and identification feature for the new building. CB+E acquired the structure with the intent to convert it to new corporate offices for its business. The design challenge was to capitalize on the existing high bay drive-thru areas
Officials from Mortenson Construction, NexCore Group and Silver Cross Hospital recently broke ground on a new Medical Services Building in New Lenox, Ill. Photo Courtesy: Mortenson Construction Officials from Silver Cross, NexCore and Mortenson Construction gather for the groundbreaking of the new Silver Cross Medical Services Building in New Lenox, Ill. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The 182,000-sq-ft facility will play a key role in integrating inpatient and outpatient services at the 76-acre Silver Cross Replacement Hospital campus. “The new hospital campus is located in one of the fastest growing areas in Illinois, 3 mi from its current location,”
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