by jbs081709d3 — August 21, 2009—The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected three recipients of the 2009 AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program, and the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) has selected 13 educational and cultural facilities for this year’s CAE Educational Facility Design Awards.
The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital, says AIA. The 2009 recipients are:
- Category A (built, less than $25 million construction cost): Providence North Portland Clinic, Portland, OR; Mahlum.
- Category B (built, more than $25 million construction cost): Oregon Health and Science University—Peter O. Kohler Pavilion, Portland, OR; Perkins+Will in Joint Venture with Petersen Kolberg & Associates.
- Category C (unbuilt): Cancer Center, Hospital, Cancer Research Institute, to be located along a major river in the Northeast; HKS, Inc. in Joint Venture with UHS Building Solutions.
The CAE Educational Facility Design Awards program is intended to identify trends and emerging ideas, honor excellence in planning and design, and disseminate knowledge about best practices in educational and community facilities. The awards honor exemplary architecture that supports and fosters the learning experience. The 2009 recipients are:
Excellence:
- Yale University Sculpture Building and Gallery, New Haven, CT; Kieran Timberlake.
- Environmental Education/Visitor Activity Center, National Park Service, PA; Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.
Merit:
- ASU Polytechnic Academic Complex, Mesa, AZ; RSP Architects, Ltd. in association with Lake/Flato Architects.
- Camino Nuevo High School, Los Angeles, CA; Daly Genik.
- Canada’s National Ballet School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects.
