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AIA Rochester Announces 2022 Design Excellence Awards Show Recgnizes Top Buildings by Local Design Professionals

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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 Avenue and Broad Street in downtown Rochester.

Bergmann’s 260 East Broad Street garnered a 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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The third annual People’s Choice Contest was won by Bero Architecture’s The Little Theatre. The People’s Choice Contest is a fundraiser that promotes local architecture while raising money for a local nonprofit. Public voting raised over $400 for the Urban League of Rochester.

Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Rochester awarded two projects to member firms as well: the 2022 IES Awards Exterior Winner was Warner Castle – Loggia and Courtyard by Stantec and the 2022 IES Awards Interior Winner was Gates Chili Performing Arts Center by SEI Design Group.

For more about AIA Rochester and its programs, visit www.aiaroc.org and follow AIA Rochester on social media. q

Bero Architecture’s The Little Theatre won the 2022 People’s Choice Contest, whose proceeds benefit the Urban League of Rochester.

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AIA Rochester, Architecture Foundation Announce 2022 Scholarships

$18,000 awarded to architecture students

The Rochester Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Rochester) and the Architectural Foiundation of Greater Rochester (AFGR) have again partnered to help the next generation of architects pursue their training.

Merit-based scholarships totaling $18,000 have been awarded to six students heading to school this fall to study architecture courtesy of AIA Rochester and the AFGR, with contributions from AIA National, Women in Architecture, and the Family of Myron Starks.

Three 2022 high school graduates were awarded scholarships for their first year of college. Pittsford Mendon High School's Maeve St. John was awarded the $2000 Myron Starks Scholarship, a $500 AIA National Scholarship, as well as a $5000 AIA Rochester Scholarship to attend Kent State University. Danielle Strauf, also of Pittsford Mendon High School received a $3000 AIA Rochester Scholarship to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Marth Casey of Penfield High School received a $3000 AIA Rochester Scholarship towards Syracuse University. College recieved a $3000 AIA Rochester Scholarship.

College student Quille Hughes, who is attending Rochester Institute of Technology, was awarded a $1000 AIA Rochester Scholarship, along with a $2000 Women in Architecture Scholarship. SUNY University of Buffalo student Peter Fillion earned a $1000 AIA National Scholarship and a $2000 AIA Rochester Scholarship. Vina Nguyen Pharm of SUNY Alfred State The scholarship winners were publicly recognized during AIA Rochester's Design Awards Celebration held at the George Eastman Museum on June 9.

For information about this ongoing scholarship program, as well as information regarding programs available for students interested in architecture, visit www.aiaroc.org and follow AIA Rochester on social media. q

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