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AIA News AIA Rochester Announces 2022 Design Excellence Awards Show Recgnizes Top Buildings by Local Design Professionals
The Rochester chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Rochester) returned to an in person setting and held its 2022 Design Awards Gala at the George Eastman Museum. Seven firms garnered nine awards as selected by a jury of peers from AIA Pittsburgh. The Design Award is the highest of accolades given. Bergmann’s 260 East Broad Street was awarded a Design Award. The designers were challenged to create solutions for a mixed-use project that would house the workspace for an anchor tenant in a manner that equally promoted their brand and commitment to Rochester. The response by Bergmann was a new five-story mixed-use development on the corner of Clinton Bergmann’s 260 East Broad Street garnered a Avenue and Broad Street in downtown Rochester. 2022 AIA Rochester Design Award. A Design Award was also awarded to In.Site: Architecture’s OPENhouse. Seven outdoor structured spaces, on three levels, facing four directions, yields one OPENhouse. The overarching theme of this house is that it is open: open floor plan, open to southern sun and lake breezes, open to the outdoor rooms and open to visitors. Cuba Rushford by CPL and Melo Coffee & Kitchen by Rozzi Architects each earned a Merit Award.
In.Site: Architecture’s OPENhouse earned a 2022 AIA Rochester Design Award.
Citation Awards were given to Bero Architecture for the Rehabilitation of The Little Theatre, In.Site:Architecture for Girne City Hall, and SWBR for the Home Leasing Union Square Apartments.
SWBR was awarded a Community Impact Award for their Irondequoit Community Center and Bero Architecture also received a Community Impact Award for their Rehabilitation of the Little Theatre Project. The winner of the Designers Unleashed: Architectural Ideas Competition was a team of two from Edge Architecture: Christina Fluman and Julia Renick. Their project, TREEHOUSE, best answered the challenge to use architecture to promote visibility of the growth being achieved across the city, as well as inspire what is to come next.
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