2009
AWARD WINNERS:
Architecture

Honor
Award
Tepper West Addition
Client: Carnegie Mellon University
Architecture Firm: EDGE studio
Contractor: Jendoco Construction Corporation
Jury comments: This is an extraordinary
example of a small addition that accomplishes great things
functionally, urbanisticly and architecturally. It is subtle,
complete and sophisticated and so intelligent in its respect
of the existing building. The responsibility to complete this
campus space was key for this project. The "porch"
presentation to the quad is beautifully scaled and makes inviting
a building that was previously probably quite mute.

Honor
Award
South Side Courtyard House
Client: Client Name Withheld
Architecture Firm: studio d’ ARC architects,
P.C.
Contractor: Prime-1 Enterprises
Jury comments: Very mature work that
layers day light, volumes and planes to establish a successful
and consistent dialogue between inside and outside, a concept
unusually indoor / outdoor for a Pittsburgh home. The existing
masonry wall engages in this dialogue to define space. It
is a terrific example of warm livable modernism

Certificate
of Merit
Yale University Chemistry Research Building
Client: Yale University
Architecture Firm: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson/Cannon
Design
Contractor: William A Berry & Son, Inc.
Jury comments: The jury appreciated the
simple ways in which the building engages at scale of campus
to create a well scaled courtyard and a dialogue among the
parts addressing the incremental growth of a campus. The way
the building expresses the promise of an ambiguous language
that resides between the historic campus and its future (best
exemplified in the facade) is the strength of this project.
The jury also appreciated the handsome laboratory spaces.

Certificate
of Merit
Eastside Phase 2 – Building B
Client: The Mosites Company
Architecture Firm: The Design Alliance Architects
Contractor:
Mosites Construction Company

Certificate
of Merit
Eastside Phase 2 – Building D
Client: The Mosites Company
Architecture Firm: The Design Alliance Architects
Contractor: Mosites Construction Company
Jury
comments: The building mediates between the pedestrian
and vehicular experiences successfully. It is a very courageous
project and an heroic attempt to make the alienating pattern
of drive in, big box retail an urban and perhaps a more public
experience.

Certificate
of Merit & Green Design Citation
Fred M. Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s
Media and Conference Center
Client: St. Vincent College and Archabbey
Architecture Firm: FortyEighty Architecture
Contractor: Massaro Corporation
Jury comments: This building nestles
into the site successfully addressing the context and climate.
The jury was impressed by the intelligent placement of monitors
to bring day lighting deep into the interior spaces as well
as its response to the campus landmark buildings by framing
focused views of them through dramatic openings at key public
spaces within the building.

Certificate
of Merit
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
Client: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Architecture Firm: Loysen + Kreuthmeier Architects
Contractor: Massaro Corporation
Jury comments: This library has a robust
civic presence in keeping with the Carnegie tradition. As
a contemporary work it is open and inviting and makes a successful
reference to the scale of neighboring buildings and to the
corner.

Certificate
of Merit
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Hill District
Client: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Architecture Firm: Pfaffmann + Associates, PC
Contractor: A. Martini & Company
Jury comments: This
library quite civic in the way it engages the street and establishes
the most honorific space, the reading room, as a prow anchoring
the corner in this historic neighborhood. At the same time,
the interior is casual, simple and straightforward using the
stacks to establish an intermediate scale under the big roof
and the yellow wall as reference point. The reuse of the diner
position in memory as a casual reading room is a gracious
nod to the history and ritual of the site. The bioswale garden
is well located a serves as a natural buffer to the neighboring
property.
Certificate
of Merit
Penn at 29th
Client: Rothschild Doyno Collaborative
Architecture Firm: Rothschild Doyno Collaborative
Contractor: Mosites Construction Company
Jury comments: The jury admired this
modest adaptive reuse that transformed the existing building
into a vibrant part of a new urban street fabric while keeping
the utilitarian nature of the original garage intact. The
jury found it both skilful and lively in the weaving of the
large scale and the intimate scale, and of urban and tectonic
gestures. In this same light, it is a model for renovating
buildings that can express a respect for the tradition of
simple and honest structures alongside the complexities of
new programs and urban roles.
Regional and Urban Design

East
Liberty Green Vision
Client: East Liberty Development, Inc.
Architecture Firm: Perkins Eastman
Jury Comments: A very competent urban
design proposition that imagines a neighborhood/precinct brought
together around a sustainable lifestyle. It is recognized
for its clear participatory process that establishes metrics
for individual responsibility. It incentivizes the individual
to act toward the desired outcome through a series clear incremental
steps where the impact is tangible.
Architectural
Detail/Craftmanship

Award
of Excellence
Warhol Reception Desk
Client: Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Architecture Firm: EDGE studio
Contractor: J. Francis Company, LLC
Jury
Comments: This piece is applauded for its craft,
innovation, and its broad interpretation of a reception desk
as a colorful work of art. In a clear alignment with Warhol’s
innovative work in photography, it pushes the envelope of
fabrication to engage advanced technologies and also like
Warhol’s work, it seems appropriate in this otherwise
very white space.

Award
of Excellence
Monastery Street Park
Client: South Side Local Development Company and
South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association
Architecture
Firm: Loysen + Kreuthmeier Architects
Jury Comments: The
jury appreciated this project as an embellishment of infrastructure
and as a work of beautifully crafted public art. It is a very
admirable urban strategy that brings an everyday background
element of streetscape into unique neighborhood landmark status.
Open Plan
Award
of Excellence
A Civic Renewal
Client: Preservation Pittsburgh / DOCOMOMO
Architecture Firm: Pfaffmann + Associates,
PC
Jury Comments: This provocative study
admirably explores the idea that memory is complex, that it
is not just about good and bad. Rather that architecture/urban
design that takes a positive sustainable view of future can
use the past as a powerful and respectful foundation. This
is a very compelling and worthy hypothesis to which Pittsburgh
will hopefully give serious consideration

Award
of Excellence
London Barge Gallery
Client:
Arquitectum Design Competitions
Architecture Firm: Renaissance 3 Architects,
PC
Jury Comments: This
was a facile exercise…perhaps more of a folly, as the
jury imaged its relevance in this city as an insertion along
Pittsburgh’s riverfronts. It would be a very seductive
idea to see the city reflected in this barge as it floats
past the city, ever changing. Homage to PPG?

Award of Excellence
Point Park Public Space Competition
Client: Point Park University
Architecture Firm: Strada
Jury
Comments: This is a project that is all
about using what is there to create something important….
Go, think about your city and do something!!! The subtle completion
of this urban space with a few elements is a case study for
"missing tooth" situations in cities across the
US. The jury members were pleased to see underutilized urban
spaces such as this rejuvenated and would ideally want such
interventions to push for spaces that invite congregation
and allow a diversity of activities..
Timeless
Awards

Timeless
Award
Schenley High School
Client: The Board of Education (currently the Pittsburgh
Public Schools)
Architecture Firm: MacLachlan, Cornelius,
& Filoni Inc., on behalf of their founder Edward Stotz)
Contractor: Thompson-Starrett Company
Jury Comments: Schenley evokes memories
of high school for generations past yet, as a building it
is quite contemporary as a composition of narrow floor plates,
and single loaded corridors surrounding light filled courtyards.
This is a rich and timeless work, with well proportioned exterior
facades, with extraordinary presence and fantastic potential
for adaptive reuse.
People's Choice Award

West
Virginia Alumni Center
Client: West Virginia University Alumni Assoc.
Architecture Firm: IKM Incorporated
Contractor: March-Westin
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