by jbs060909j3 — June 12, 2009—The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 20 recipients of the 2009 Small Project Awards.
The AIA Small Project Awards Program, now in its fifth year, was established to recognize small-project practitioners for the high quality of their work, to promote excellence in small-project design, and to raise public awareness of the value and design excellence that architects bring to projects, no matter the limits of size and scope.
Award recipients are categorized into three groups; 1/ Small project objects (furniture, fixture, or fragment; up to $50,000 construction budget), 2/ Small project structures (up to $500,000 construction budget) and 3/ Accessible residential designs. Small Project Objects:
- Atlas Performing Arts Center—Shadow Signage, Washington, DC; CORE architecture + design
- Blatz Bottle Apertures, Milwaukee, WI; Johnsen Schmaling Architects
- Counterbalanced Steel Stair, Bozeman, MT; Intrinsik Architecture
- Dominey Pavilion, Decatur, GA; Lightroom Studio, LLC
- Mobile Chaplet, Fargo, ND; Moorhead & Moorhead
- Cup City, Austin, TX; Legge Lewis Legge
- The Founders’ Circle Wall at CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, Rehoboth Beach, DE; RMJM MERJE
Small Project Structures:
- Chapin Studio, Austin, TX; Clayton Levy & Little Architects
- Dar Luz, GLOW 2008, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Laboratory for Environments, Architecture & Design, Inc.
- Ferrous House, Spring Prairie, WI; Johnsen Schmaling Architects
- Hanna Fenichel Center for Child Development, Solana Beach, CA; Stephen Dalton Architects
- Media Arts, Cleveland, OH; Robert Maschke Architects
- Accessory Building, North Vancouver, British Columbia; mcfarlane green biggar Architecture + Design Inc.
- Emel Residence, Palo Alto, CA; EASA Architecture
- Public Bus Shelters, New Haven, CT; david thompson Architects
- Swamp Hut, Newton, MA; Moskow Linn Architects
- Trail Restroom, Austin, TX; Mir Rivera Architects
