Saturday, January 08, 2000
College designs grab top grades
Projects at XU, UC and Miami on the list of the year's winners
BY MIKE PULFER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Building projects at Xavier University, the University of Cincinnati and Miami University Middletown took honors at this year's Cincinnati Design Awards, which, for the first time, drew architects and interior designers together for the presentations late last year.
Other awards were linked to projects at Mason (Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield), Florence (Cinergy) and downtown (Hamilton County Courthouse and Music Hall).
The local chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and the Cincinnati/Dayton City Center and Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) now sponsor the competition, previously a function of the AIA.
The goal of the competition is “to recognize quality design in the Cincinnati-Dayton community and to educate the general public to the benefits of supporting quality architecture and interior design,” said Baxter Hodell Donnelly Preston architect Bob Rich, spokesman for the AIA.
The winners:
• McGill, Smith, Punshon Inc., for Xavier's Evanston campus mall redesign to unify residential and academic zones and enhance the university's image.
• KZF Inc. for UC's Eden Avenue Garage addition; for Miami's new 40,000-square-foot Levey Hall Solence Building for sciences in Middletown, and for Anthem's corporate offices for 825 employees in Mason.
• Catt Lyon Design for Hall Timeline, 160 feet of ink-jet-printed waist-to-ceiling vinyl graphics at Music Hall's west entrance corridor in Over-the-Rhine. The design, in four horizontal lines, tracks the hall's history from 1860.
• Champlin Haupt for converting a Florence maintenance warehouse into Cinergy's Power Marketing and Trading Facility for gas and electric deals.
• GBBN Architects for interior renovation work at the courthouse.
• Michael McInturf Architects for conversion of a factory building into New York Presbyterian Church, Long Island.
• BHDP for a 247,000-square-foot building for Reynolds and Reynolds at a Kettering, Ohio, research park.
• Stan Brod, Walter Langsam and Alice Weston for Architecture Cincinnati, a booklet about architecture and buildings in and around Cincinnati.
• The Center for the Study of Practice, a research office at the Department of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at UC, for its magazine, Practices, which “finds a middle path between the commercial magazine and the academic journal.”
• Cincinnati Forum for Architecture and Urbanism and the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) for an exhibit of 48 downtown Cincinnati projects that were never built.
• Michael Schuster and Associates and the CAC for design selection competition for a new CAC building.
The judges: Robert J. Frasca, partner, Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca, Portland, Ore., and chairman of the AIA's 1999 national design awards; Gerhardt Knodel, director, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Patrick Gallagher, president, Douglas/Gallagher, Washington, D.C., Houston, Nashville, Chicago and Portland, and Kitty Morgan, editor, Cincinnati Magazine.
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