CCM Village, a $93.2 million renovation and construction project at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, is one of 14 to win top awards from the American Institute of Architects.

The project more than doubled the size of CCM. (UC photo) | ZOOM |

        The 2001 Honor Awards for Architecture, selected from 421 submissions, will be announced at AIA headquarters in Washington, D.C., today. They will be presented in May at the 2001 National Convention and Expo in Denver.

        The AIA jury called CCM Village “an imaginative reuse of existing buildings that provides an attractive interior and exterior gathering place for performing arts. A complex program is given urban form through a simple yet strong design. ... details of public circulation spaces are effective through the restrained palette of materials and colors used.”

        The project more than doubled the size of the top-ranked music school, where 1,400 students had been pursuing studies in a 1960s-era building designed for 650.

        When the campus was dedicated in December 1999, architect Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in New York characterized it as the most complicated project he had undertaken in his 50 years of practice. The project's associate architect was NBBJ of Columbus. Dugan and Meyers Construction Co. was the general contractor.

        The Honor Awards are the profession's highest recognition of design excellence.
       

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