2013 Winning Submissions

Design Award Winners
2013
On Thursday, March 7, 2013 AIA Charlotte hosted the 2013 Design Awards
Gala and 60th Anniversary Celebration at the Duke Energy Executive Suite.
Ten projects, all designed by local architecture firms, were announced
as the 2013 Design Award Winners. This year’s jury included Michael
Arad, AIA, Tomas Rossant, AIA and Gabriel Smith, AIA. Mr. Arad, the
jury chair, designed the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site,
“Reflecting Absence.”
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN MERIT AWARD
Architect: Project: Location: Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering
Camp Pendleton Dining Halls
Camp Pendleton, CA
This submission represents two dining facilities at the Edson Range and
Chappo sections of the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. The
Edson Range facility will support over 3,000 personnel (including recruits
and officers), while the Chappo facility will support over 500 personnel.
Both facilities will replace existing dining facilities, and are expected to set
a new design and sustainability standard of excellence for the Base. Special
consideration has been paid to the client’s current design requirements, the
climate and geography of Southern California, and the environment and
expectations of today’s Marine Corps members.
CITATION AWARD
Architect: Project: Location: Clark Patterson Lee
Fairfield County Disabilities Office Building
Winnsboro, SC
The new Fairfield County Disabilities Office Building allows for specific needs
of the consumers. Flexible spaces within the design promote community
involvement. The new administration building allows the existing workshop
building to expand its services to area residents. The Disabilities and Special
Needs Board has provided services to people with developmental disabilities
for the last twenty-five years. Currently there are 231 people with lifelong
disabilities receiving services from the local agency.
CITATION AWARD
Architect: Project: Location: Little
Founders Federal Credit Union Headquarters
Lancaster, SC
The Founders Federal Credit Union Headquarters (FFCU) was designed
with a single intent: to celebrate and honor the past textile industry in
the community it serves while creating an innovative and collaborative
workspace. Understanding that the new corporate headquarters was vital
in weaving past success to future progress, the “mill” became the design
inspiration and metaphor for the new corporate headquarters. The new
building successfully weaves together workspace with the community
while stitching past success to future progress.
CITATION AWARD
Architect: Little
Project: Adventist Health System Corporate Headquarters
Location: Altamonte Springs, FL
Oasis = A place or period that gives relief from a troubling or chaotic situation.
It offers sanctuary that can be used to replenish oneself to continue on a
journey.
This is the fundamental design concept for the Adventist Health System (AHS)
Corporate Headquarters which is representative not only of their beliefs
and brand, but also of the surrounding Florida landscape and this project’s
physical site.
URBAN DESIGN MERIT AWARD
Architect: Project: Location: Neighboring Concepts, PLLC
Mosaic Village
Charlotte, NC
Designed with college students and young professionals in mind, Mosaic
Village is a vibrant and energetic community located at the heart of Historic
West-End, just walking distance from center-city Charlotte and Johnson C.
Smith University. Serving as one of the first pieces of an envisioned cultural
mosaic, the mixed-use project consists of a 299 bed Residence Hall for
JCSU, 7,000 sf of retail, and a 400 car parking deck. Sculpted by the cultural
influence and rhythmic progression of jazz music, Mosaic Village becomes an
architectural composition that respects its history, while chartering a new
path for the Historic West-End Community.
INTERIORS MERIT AWARD
Architect: Project: Location: Perry Poole Architects
Capitol
Charlotte, NC
Capitol is a 6000 square foot freestanding women’s clothing store located
in Charlotte, North Carolina. The first floor contains important American
and European designer clothing, shoes, jewelry and accessories. The second
floor is dedicated to contemporary clothing with an emphasis on emerging
designers. This floor also houses support staff offices, storage and a private
terrace for employee use. Both floors wrap around a central courtyard with
a 600 sq.ft, 36 ft. tall Vertical garden by artist/botanist, Patrick Blanc. The
vertical garden consists of over 100 varieties of plants (1600+ individual
plants) that are indigenous to North Carolina and the South.
MERIT AWARD
Architect: Project: Location: Perkins+Will, North Carolina Inc.
Confidential Office Development
Charlotte, NC
This project consists of a master plan for a full city block and the design of
a new 30-story office tower to expand the corporation’s existing corporate
headquarters facility in uptown Charlotte. Components of the master plan
are the new tower, a new 5-star hotel, a street level destination restaurant,
an interior “Urban Garden” public space connecting across College Street
to the existing corporate atrium space, street level retail, renovation of an
existing parking deck, and renovation of existing retail spaces. The tower’s
elegant glass form most notably expresses the auditorium volume at the
corner of 5th and College streets.
INTERIORS HONOR AWARD
Architect: Project: Location: Cluck Design Collaborative PLLC
Atypic
Charlotte, NC
Within a footprint of 22 feet by 44 feet, one simple gesture spatially delineates
the home of Atypic, a marketing and design agency in Charlotte, NC. The
energy of a single idea is physically manifest as a suspended plane of light,
marking the fracture of the volume’s only interior wall. With material honesty,
the architect fabricated light fixtures and furniture offer compliment to the
raw beauty of the structure’s concrete ceiling and floor.
HONOR AWARD
Architect: Project: Location: Clark Patterson Lee (Executive Architect)
Machado and Silvetti (Design Architect)
Mint Museum Uptown
Charlotte, NC
Clark Patterson Lee was selected as the Architect-of-Record for a new
150,000 s.f. facility in uptown Charlotte. Designed by Machado and Silvetti
Associates with George Sexton Associates providing museum planning and
lighting design services, the project provides expansion for the exhibition
and storage of American Art, Contemporary Art, and Contemporary Craft
collections. In addition to galleries and collections storage, the new facility
provides educational, administrative, special events, and food service spaces
including a Café overlooking the large plaza. The project required a strong
civic & architectural statement for the museum and extensive coordination
with numerous design teams and project stakeholders.
HONOR AWARD
Architect: Project: Location: Gantt Huberman Architects in association with Kieran Timberlake
Overlook Hall, UNC Asheville
Asheville, NC
Overlook Hall provides housing for 300 undergraduates in a diverse array
of suites, each containing a living space. Each floor has quiet studies at the
ends of each wing and alternating floors have 2-story lounges with kitchens or
laundry rooms. The lower level includes the Down Under Café, a community
room, and a lounge, which create a campus hub. The exterior site configuration
provides connectivity to the surrounding residence halls and strengthens the
community relationship. Sustainable features include a geothermal field, a
solar-heated hot water system, motion-sensing lighting, active chilled beams,
locally sourced materials, and maximum daylight.