AIA Wisconsin 2010 Design Awards

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AIA Wisconsin 2010

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DESIGN AWARDS 2010

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Wisconsin, the state society of The

A jury of nationally distinguished architects from outside

American Institute of Architects, recognized ten building

Wisconsin selected the award-winning projects. Members

projects for excellence in architectural design as part of its 2010

of the 2010 Design Awards jury were Marlon Blackwell,

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AIA, Fayetteville; Angela Ward Hyatt, AIA Boston; and Jerry Johnson, AIA, Chicago. The chair of AIA Wisconsin’s

This year’s diverse mix of award-winning architecture includes

56th annual Design Awards program was Mark Kruser, AIA,

a credit union office on a challenging urban site, a corporate

Middleton.

headquarters campus in a prairie setting, an experimental dwelling with a small footprint, a luxury apartment building

The annual Design Awards program represents the highest

on property reclaimed from a former freeway, a health center

recognition given for excellence in architectural design by AIA

designed to reinvent the patient experience, a small sustainable

Wisconsin. Honor Awards recognize overall design excellence.

home on a narrow infill site, a quiet staff canteen that highlights

Merit Awards recognize excellence in particular aspects of

history, an office building transformed for a nonprofit

architectural design.

foundation, a large urban development designed for multiple uses, and a beautifully restored historic municipal landmark.

The 2010 AIA Wisconsin Design Awards were presented to the architects, building owners and general contractors at a special

These projects are honored for their creative, contemporary,

awards ceremony at the Monona Terrace Community and

innovative and environmentally sensitive design solutions.

Convention Center in Madison. 

The common thread among all ten projects is that they were designed by architect members of AIA Wisconsin.

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Educators Credit Union

Honor Award Architect: Genesis Architecture, LLC Owner: Educators Credit Union Contractor: BCI, Inc. Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Located on a challenging urban site, this new three-story credit union office building features a rooftop garden and an auto court, with vertical “GreenScreen” vine structures to absorb pollution and noise. The architecture creates an urban oasis with a strong street edge that offers glimpses into its interior spaces through open bays, glass and narrow slots and expresses the layered precast and brick materials of the building’s exterior. Aluminum and glass along with rich wood detailing are used to help integrate the building within its urban setting and provide a warm and welcoming interior space. The branch office includes walk-in lobby, tellers, offices, conference space and community rooms.

The drive-through banking function is used as a major feature of the building’s design, resulting in a three-story auto court with water fountain, vertical vine structures and glass to connect with the walk-in banking areas. Inspired by Kahn and Wright, the architect’s unique design solution was conceived as a tension of opposites in many respects – open yet closed, urban yet natural, solid and void, hard yet soft.

Photography: Peter Wells

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Jury Comment “The project is nicely scaled. It is a beautiful holistic composition.The careful design is carried all the way through the project. This is one of the best midsized buildings we’ve seen in some time.

It is very handsome.”

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Kerry Ingredients & Flavours Innovation and Technical Center

Honor Award Architect: HGA Architects and Engineers Owner: Kerry Ingredients & Flavours Contractor: Gilbane Building Company Location: Beloit, Wisconsin This project integrates a new North American corporate headquarters campus on a 124-acre site with reclaimed farmland. The facility is comprised of four separate buildings that house corporate offices, business support, employee amenities, customer suites, research and development labs, and an application pilot plant. The heart of the facility, devoted to production and consumer evaluation, includes a fourstory office building with floor-to-ceiling windows and suites that allow customers to view and test products in a natural environment. An all-glass first floor lightly meets the green terrain, allowing the views of a lush landscape to pass through the facility. The barn-red terra cotta tile cladding on the exterior reflects a regional material chosen for its refined and modest quality. Horizontal ribbon windows in two of the campus buildings provide uniform daylighting in the office and laboratory spaces. The staggered volumes of the campus buildings create striking contemporary architecture in a setting of restored mesic prairie.

Jury Comment “This project offers interesting views into other spaces and connects comfortably with the surrounding landscape. It effectively incorporates a very rich looking, yet simple, palette of materials. The architect skillfully broke down the scale of this large project. We love the logic of the plan.�

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Photography: John J. Korom Photography

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The E.D.G.E.

[Experimental Dwelling for a Greener Environment]

Honor Award Architect: Revelations Architects/Builders Corporation Owner: Ann and William Yudchitz, AIA Contractor: Revelations Architects/Builders Corporation Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Photography: Dan Hoffman Photography

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Using tough economic times and materialism as a backdrop, the architect set out to challenge the notion that “bigger is always better.” The result is this sustainable and portable dwelling. Concise and intriguing, the 360 square foot structure originally was designed as a 3-D teaching moment that became an exemplary centerpiece at a regional renewable energy fair. A modular design, the structure’s mechanical areas – kitchen and bathroom – are prefabricated to provide quality, affordability and speed of assembly. These modules are woven together by walls of glass on either side of the central living space, with a loft bedroom above each module. The furniture is an integral part of the architecture by optimizing space and flexibility, allowing for living space reconfiguration depending upon function. An excellent example of compact sustainable living, the house also features rainwater harvesting, geothermal heating and cooling, air-to-air heat recovery and ventilation, and passive solar with insulated shutter doors to minimize heat loss at night or when unoccupied.

Jury Comment “This project has what you need – no more, no less. The craft of this dwelling was beautifully executed. Designing transportable and transformable furniture makes this project exceptional.

When a project is this small, it has to be a jewel at every scale and every resolution. We think they have done that here.”

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ONE at The North End

Merit Award Architect: Engberg Anderson, Inc. Owner: Mandel Group Contractor: KBS Construction, Inc. Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Jury Comment “This is a good solid project that understands its role as an urban building. It has a very dramatic façade that really comes to life at night. The architect took the loft aesthetic and enriched it using local materials. The design was executed effectively in simple massing forms.”

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Photography: Engberg Anderson, Inc.

Located on land reclaimed from the former Park East freeway in Milwaukee, this luxury apartment development features 83 upscale apartments, a green roof covering the parking structure and ground floor retail space. A chic hotel exterior is achieved by using brick as a modern skin with vertical bands of copper woven through it and accented by dark bronze windows that are punctuated by operable windows of clear anodized aluminum. Simple balconies transform into a well crafted design component with modish materials like mesh and brightly colored resin panels. In the lobby, elevators are exposed in their raw concrete shaft, detailed bamboo covered mail boxes are enhanced by the bamboo flooring, and salvaged materials like glass beads are reused to glow like jewels from slotted light boxes in the walls. Former fire doors, sandblasted to a shiny steel, function as room dividers in the club room.

The well-appointed luxury apartments are awash with natural wood and complete the urban hotel feel. The green roof not only reduces heat island effects, but also offers private walk-out patios for residents of the first level.

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St. Clare Health Center

Merit Award Architect: HGA Architects and Engineers Owner: SSM Health Care Contractor: Alberici Healthcare Constructors Location: Fenton, Missouri

Photography: Alise O’Brien Architectural Photography LLC

Resting on a 54-acre site, this new replacement hospital is designed to provide natural daylight throughout a facility nestled in a garden environment. The health center includes a four-story inpatient facility, waiting and support spaces, full service cafeteria, chapel and conference center. It reflects the owner’s mission to reinvent the healthcare experience from the ground up for patients, physicians and staff.

The site is designed with green edges to buffer the hospital from the street. Like an oasis, the building settles into the site’s natural valley, revealing peaceful lower-level sunken gardens that are directly accessible from the cafeteria, conference space, cancer center and rehabilitation suites. A two-story curved linear spine forms the major organizing element of the campus, linking the entry with the garden level and connecting major patient areas. This daylit spine opens to waiting areas, dining and retail services, business and health information centers, and the chapel.

Floor-to-ceiling glass in patient rooms and at the end of corridors opens to views of the gardens and distant hills.

Jury Comment “The building is really well done. Its palette is nicely edited. The building effectively uses the site and scale. We like the connections to the outdoor spaces that are happening all around the building. ”

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O-S House

Merit Award Architect: Johnsen Schmaling Architects Owner: SSM Health Care Contractor: Beggi General Contractors, Inc. Location: Racine, Wisconsin

Jury Comment “The skillful design of this house is well detailed and precise. The street-side elevation and massing are very clear and well done. Its structure is very thoughtfully done where you can see through the building to the water. An infill site, the house is respectful of the scale of the neighborhood. It’s nice to see the color.”

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Photography: John J. Macaulay

This 1,900 square foot house is located along the edge of Lake Michigan in an old downtown neighborhood of Racine, Wisconsin. As a result of its sustainable and energy efficient design, it is among the first LEED Platinum homes in the Upper Midwest. Sustainable features include geothermal heating and cooling, solar roof laminates, high-efficiency insulation and windows, low-flow plumbing fixtures, rainwater harvesting, roof gardens and locally-sourced materials. The project demonstrates how a small sustainable residence built with a moderate budget can become a confident urban constituent, and a harbinger of change. A simple rectangular building, the house takes advantage of the narrow site and orientation with a series of outdoor rooms, including an open entry court, elevated patios accessible from the upper level and a shaded main level terrace. The exterior is wrapped in a rainscreen of thin concrete panels suspended between a pair of horizontal steel channels, creating a ventilated envelope with superior protection from the elements. The floorplan provides expansive views of the lake and access to the outdoor rooms.

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Salve Staff Canteen at Pfister Hotel

Merit Award Architect: Johnsen Schmaling Architects Owner: Marcus Hotels and Resorts Contractor: Tri-North Builders, Inc. Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Photography: Doug Edmunds Studios

Designed as a quiet dining room to serve the cooks, janitors and maids of the Pfister Grand Hotel in Milwaukee, this 960 square foot cafeteria is located deep in the subterranean belly of this Romanesque Revival building. It was carved out of a cluttered maze of small residual spaces once occupied by storage closets, old mechanical equipment and makeshift break rooms. This modest yet pleasant respite for staff demonstrates the transformative power of architecture regardless of scope or budget. The new canteen design reflects a simple perimeter wrapper that weaves around existing foundation columns and ties together many fragmented spaces to create a peaceful dining room of modest elegance. Along the perimeter wall, “history apertures” of deep acrylic-sheathed frames expose hidden remnants of the hotel’s Victorian past, including quarried masonry foundations, iron pipes, old furring strips and decades of paint layers that are subtly illuminated to become artifacts of the building’s structural and aesthetic DNA. A 21-foot long harvest table invites employees to dine together under a wood ceiling canopy.

Jury Comment “With modest resources, the architect created juxtaposition and interest using the elements of the existing building. The strategy is effective and affordable. It looks like it should be a high-end restaurant. It is beautifully executed.”

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Rowland Reading

Merit Award Architect: Potter Lawson Inc. Owner: Rowland Reading Foundation Contractor: J.H. Findorff & Son Inc. Location: Middleton, Wisconsin

Jury Comment “We admire the way in which the architect opened up this building and made it much friendlier. With the brightness, lightness and soft colors, it feels almost like an art gallery. This building has been reinvented.

We appreciate that, rather than tear it down, a more sustainable approach has been implemented.”

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Photography: Nels Akerlund

This project involved the renovation of a 1970s two-story office building into the new headquarters of a nonprofit educational foundation. The original vacant building was transformed into a sustainable facility, providing a light, open and inspiring work environment with technologically advanced flexible space for seminars and an art gallery.

The architect’s design solution created new avenues for natural light by replacing expanses of solid exterior walls with windows and replacing the existing dark glass with clear high performance glazing. The new natural wood exterior facades display bleached cedar siding with clean white window frames in place of the old bronze ones. The former brown brick was stained white and highlighted by an apple-green metal accent band, adding an artistic quality that harmonizes with the mosaic tree art panels in the lobby. To allow more light, the addition of a large central skylight creates a “public square” in the production team room, which is used for everything from mail and printing to library research and collaborative meetings.

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University Square

Merit Award Architect: Plunkett Raysich Architects, LLP Owners: Executive Management, Inc. Steve Brown Apartments University of Wisconsin Contractor: J.H. Findorff & Son Inc. Location: Madison, Wisconsin

Photography: C&N Photography

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Located near the university campus and downtown, University Square efficiently includes over one million square feet of space for retail, university offices and services, residential apartments and parking on a 3.2 acre site. Retail functions create the two-story base for the building and provide an active and vibrant street level. Atop this base is a residential tower, with 360 apartments, and a university tower, which provides a more central location for health services, registration and financial aid offices plus the Student Activities Center for 600 student organizations.

Sustainability was interwoven into the design of this significant urban infill redevelopment project, including the use of soy bean oil in power transformers, access to natural daylight for 90% of the inhabited spaces and use of high performance low-e glass and local materials. In addition, it has the largest green roof in Madison, which not only creates a park-like atmosphere, but also provides a key component in the storm water management for the project.

Jury Comment “The architect successfully addressed the issues of scale, density and palette. The design manages the different entries and how this block will ultimately be occupied and used by the building’s different tenants. The courtyard is a successful space and well done. This is a great addition to the city.”

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Milwaukee City Hall Exterior Restoration

Special Recognition Architect: Engberg Anderson, Inc. Owner: City of Milwaukee | Department of Public Works Contractor: J.P. Cullen & Sons, Inc Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Restoring the exterior of the 114 yearold Milwaukee City Hall to its original appearance required four years of structural and façade analysis, design and planning plus three years of physical restoration work. A National Historic Landmark originally constructed in 1896, the building is a unique representation of late Gilded Age Revival architecture and the only American City Hall to be constructed in the German Renaissance Revival style. The complex and challenging $65.9 million restoration involved dismantling and reconstructing substantial portions of the exterior while keeping the building open and functioning. The project also included the restoration of the large four-sided clock at the top of the south tower. The building’s highly sculptured hand-crafted façade – including brick, terra cotta, stone, copper and slate – had been severely compromised by Milwaukee’s harsh freeze-thaw climate and decades of piecemeal and inappropriate maintenance.

Jury Comment “Requiring special technical finesse, the architects and contractors beautifully and carefully restored this stellar building. It is encouraging that the city committed the financial resources required. It is a beautiful landmark.”

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Photography: Eric Oxendorf Studio

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AIA Wisconsin GOLDEN AWARD

Wisconsin Architect Brian F. Larson, AIA Honored Architect Brian F. Larson, AIA, Eau Claire, has been selected to receive the 2010 “Golden Award” from AIA Wisconsin, the state society of The American Institute of Architects (AIA).

The Golden Award is the highest honor the state architects’ society can bestow upon a member architect.

Larson is being recognized for his dedicated service to AIA Wisconsin, distinguished leadership in advancing the architectural profession and recognized commitment to assisting students and other emerging professionals pursue careers in architecture. A member since 1963, Larson has served The American Institute of Architects in leadership positions at the local, state and national level. He has advanced the profession through his award-winning architectural design and service on the state licensing board and local plan commissions. As a mentor and an officer of the Wisconsin Architects Foundation, Larson has helped shape the future of the profession of architecture.

The Golden Award was presented to Larson during a special awards program on April 28 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison. The first Golden Award was presented by the Wisconsin Society of Architects in 1986. Larson is the twenty-third Wisconsin architect to receive the award.

“Looking at his record of significant service to the organization and contributions to the profession and the public we serve, you would think that the Golden Award was created with Brian Larson in mind,“ according to James Otto, AIA, Hubertus, the 2010 President of AIA Wisconsin. “Throughout his distinguished career, Brian has remained actively engaged in guiding initiatives to keep our profession strong and relevant and to improve the quality of life in our communities.”

Larson received his degree in architecture from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1959. Following an internship in the Boston area, he became a partner in the Eau Claire architectural firm of Larson, Playter, and Smith in 1963. The name of the firm changed in 1974 to Larson, Hestekin, and Smith. Larson joined Ayres Associates in Eau Claire in 1979, where he served as the firm’s Vice President – Director of Architecture until his retirement in 2003.

Larson’s architectural practice focused on institutional and educational buildings. Court facilities include the award-winning Eau Claire County Courthouse and Grant County Courthouse.

Educational facilities include the Fine Art Centers on the University of Wisconsin campuses in Eau Claire and Superior as well as elementary and junior high schools in Eau Claire. The Flynn Elementary School was the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified building in Eau Claire.

As the President of the AIA Northwest Wisconsin Chapter in 1976 and 1977, Larson increased membership, improved the quality Wisconsin Architect 2010

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of local AIA programs and served on the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Society of Architects. He was the President of the state AIA chapter in 1982, helping the organization strengthen its government affairs activities and assisting members survive difficult economic conditions for the design and construction industry.

In 1985, Larson was appointed by Governor Earl to the Architects Section of the Joint Examining Board of Architects, Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

He was named Chair of the Architects Section in 1987.

The Architects Section is responsible for the interpretation and enforcement of state statutes and administrative rules governing licensure and the practice of architecture in Wisconsin. Between 1986 and 1992, Larson also served with distinction as a juror for the building design division of the Architect Registration Examination administered by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), eventually serving as the Chair of Master Jurors for this national licensing exam. He also assisted the NCARB in the transition to a computer-based examination, which is in place today.

Larson initially served on the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Architects Foundation (WAF) from 1977 to 1980.

He was elected to the WAF Board of Directors again in 1992, becoming an officer in 1995 and serving as WAF President in 1997 and 1998. During his tenure, Larson helped to lead successful initiatives to increase contributions and investment income to support the expansion of scholarships for architecture students and grant programs to enhance public awareness of architecture.

In 1995, Larson was elected to represent AIA members in Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota on the national Board of Directors of The American Institute of Architects. During his three-year term as an AIA Director, Larson served with distinction as an active member of the AIA Committee on Licensing and on a special Task Force appointed to develop recommendations for the future of the AIA Library in Washington, DC. Larson also is committed to contributing to the quality of life in own community, volunteering for the United Way of Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley Museum Foundation and serving on the Board for the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra.

In addition, he has been actively involved on committees preparing comprehensive plans for the both the City of Eau Claire and Eau Claire County and currently serves as a member of the Plan Commission for the City of Eau Claire.

“Brian Larson consistently sets the bar very high for himself and for his fellow architects,” comments AIA Wisconsin President Otto. “The profession of architecture in Wisconsin is better off today and will continue to be for many years to come because of his significant contributions.”

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Wisconsin congratulates this year’s award

winners for their significant contributions to the profession and our built environment. Advancing the profession of architecture requires an uncompromising commitment to excellence. The execution of a well-designed building requires the collaboration, inspiration and enthusiastic support of the architect, owner and contractor.

AIA Wisconsin is a 1,400-member professional society representing architects in private practice, business, industry, government and education. It is the voice of the architectural profession dedicated to serving its members, advancing their value and improving the quality of the built environment.

Good design makes a difference. For over 150 years, members of The American Institute of Architects have worked with each other and their communities to create more valuable, healthy, secure and sustainable buildings and cityscapes. AIA members have access to the right people, knowledge and tools to create better design—and help clients and communities make their visions real.

For more information on working with an architect, please contact AIA Wisconsin. 

AIA Wisconsin

321 S. Hamilton St. Madison, WI 53703-4000 (608) 257-8477 Phone Web: www.aiaw.org

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