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GREEK ARCHITECTS SELECT 66 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS
FOR THE BEST NEW BUILDING DESIGN IN THE USA FOR 2008

15 Aug 2008, Chicago, Illinois
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., announce sixty-six (66) new distinguished buildings selected this year in the Museum’s prestigious “American Architecture Awards®” program for 2008.

Established over 10 years ago, the awards program honors and celebrates the most outstanding new accomplishments for new architecture designed and built in the United States by leading American and international architecture firms practicing in the USA.

“The American Architecture Awards” have become the foremost, prestigious awards program for public recognition for Excellence in Architecture in the United States both nationally and internationally. The Awards identify the new cutting-edge design direction, urban philosophy, design approach, style, and intellectual substance in American Architecture today.

The Chicago Athenaeum, founded in the historic city where modern architecture was first realized by Louis H. Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe, is the only Museum of Architecture and Design in the United States and functions internationally as one of the foremost museums dedicated to both architecture and industrial design.

For “The American Architecture Awards” 2008, the Museum received hundreds of submissions from the best and most renowned design firms in the United States and international firms working in the US.

The submissions ranged from new corporate headquarters, skyscrapers, institutions, sports and transportation facilities, airports, urban planning projects, retail stores, hospitals, sacred spaces, and private residences and multi-family housing designed by architects in their countries of origin or abroad for both built and unbuilt projects alike, as of January 1, 2006.

The Awards Program is also open to all international architecture offices and U.S. firms with projects outside the United States, as well as international architecture firms building in the US.

This year’s jury for awards took place in Athens, Greece with the participation of noted Greek architectural practitioners, educators, government leaders, and architecture journalists serving as jury members including:
• Maro Kardamitsi-Adami, Architect, and Curator, Neohellenic Archives, Benaki Museum, Athens
• Pavlos Doukas, Architect, Pavlos Doukas Architect, Athens and Former Assistant Professor, University
of Illinois at Chicago
• The Honorable Christophe Farnaud, Ambassador, Embassy of France, Athens
• Argyro Konstantinidou, Sculptor/Architectural Consultant, Greece
• Manolis Anastasakis, Architect and Editor, greekarchitects.gr., Athens

The “American Architecture Awards” is curated and organized by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine, Director/President, The Chicago Athenaeum and assisted by Lary L. Sommers, Director of Administration/ Marketing, The Chicago Athenaeum, and Kieran Conlon, Director/COO, The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies, Dublin.

Sixty-six (66) buildings in Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington, DC., Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Additionally, the jury selected skyscrapers and large-planning projects in Austria, Egypt, France, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, The People’s Republic of China, and the United Arab Emirates.

Projects selected include new corporate headquarters, schools and universities, government buildings, memorials, libraries, art museums, foundation headquarters, transit projects, retail facilities, hospitals, residences, and single- family homes.

Skyscrapers and office buildings were selected this year by the Greek jury, signaling an ever-growing European concern for smaller more intimate building types, an awareness of energy conservation and sustainability, and profound respect for the built and human environments as well as abstract shapes that twist, bend, spin, and defy gravity.

All awarded projects can be found on-line at The Chicago Athenaeum’s website at www.chi-athenaeum.org.
“Now in it’s second decade as perhaps the most significant awards from for new distinguished buildings in the United States, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, have organized this annual Museum program, “The American Architecture Awards,” as a way in which to draw significant world attention to new buildings and urban planning projects being built and designed globally by the best and most prestigious American architecture offices and design firms,” states Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine.

“The wide geographic distribution of these awards attests to the importance of the program,” Mr. Narkiewicz- Laine adds. “There is no one, single program that brings together the latest cutting-edge international architecture today as one cohesive universal representation or platform for American design. Our Museum is honored to provide a focus that allows an exploration and analysis for current stylistic directions and philosophical thinking that is apparent in contemporary design today.”
“The program has a unique educational mission and public profile with the intent of promoting and celebrating the latest, most cutting-edge international design to a national and international audience,” Mr. Narkiewicz-Laine continues.

The awarded projects for 2008 and other selected works will form an exhibition, “New American Architecture” to open at SESV Santa Verdiana (piazza Lorenzo Ghiberti 27) in Florence, Italy in November, 2008. The exhibition and awards presentation is organized by the Municipality of Florence and the Faculty of Architecture in Florence.
After, the exhibition travels to The European Centre’s new Contemporary Art + Architecture Centre in Athens.

In 2009, the exhibition will start a national tour in the United States.
The 2009 deadline for submissions for “The American Architecture Awards” is 1 Feb.
Entry forms are available by calling the Museum at +815/777-4444 or by fax at +815/777-2471 or on line at www.chi-athenaeum.org.

SCHOOL
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Architects: Elliott + Associates Architects
Client: Heritage Hall School
Contractor: Smith & Pickel Construction

LYCEUM GATEWAY
Seaside, Florida
Architects: WRT-Solomon E.T.C.
Associate Architects: Duncan & Nequette Architects
Client: CDG., LLC.
Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie

U.S. COURTHOUSE
Orlando, Florida
Architects: Leers Weinzapfel Associates
Associate Architects: HLM/Heery International
Client: General Services Administration-Public Building Service
Contactor: Hensel Phelps Construction Co.

MOVING MEMORIES ARIZONA 9-11 MEMORIAL
Phoenix, Arizona
Architects: coLAB studio LLC
Associate Architects: Jones Studio, Inc
Client: The Arizona 9-11 Memorial Commission
Contractor: McCarthy Buildings Companies, Inc.

UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM OF THE NORTH
Fairbanks, Alaska
Architects: GDM, Inc.
Associate Architects: HGA Architects and Engineers
Client: University of Alaska Museum of the North
Contractor: Alaska Mechanical Inc.

ALASKA NATIVE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROGRAM FACILITY
Anchorage, Alaska
Architects: RIM First People
Associate Architects: RIM Architects
Client: University of Alaska Anchorage
Contractors: Davis Constructors & Engineers

APPLE STORE 14TH STREET
New York, New York
Architects: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Client: Apple, Inc.

CAMINO NUEVO HIGH SCHOOL
Los Angeles, California
Architects: Daly Genik
Client: Pueblo Nuevo Charter Academy
Contractor: Turner Construction Company

GAYLORD-PICKENS OKLAHOMA HERITAGE MUSEUM
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Architects: Elliott + Associates Architects
Client: Oklahoma Heritage Association
Contractor: Smith & Pickel Construction, Inc

UNDERGROUND
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Architects: Elliott + Associates Architects
Client: Downtown OKC., Inc
Contractor: Downey Contracting LLC

THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART
Kansas City, Missouri
Architects: Steven Holl Architects
Associate Architects: Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell
Client: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Contractor: J. E. Dunn Construction Company

156 WEST SUPERIOR CONDOMINIUMS
Chicago, Illinois
Architects: The Miller|Hull Partnership
Associate Architects: Studio Dwell Inc
Client: Ranquist Development, Inc.
Contractor: Skender Construction Co.

MEDEU SPORTS CENTER
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Architects: Audrey Matlock Architect
Client: Capital Partners

SCHOOL OF ART & ART HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Iowa City, Iowa
Architects: Steven Holl Architects
Associate Architects: HLKB Architecture
Client: University of Iowa
Contractor: Larson Construction, Co., Inc.

THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM
New York, New York
Architects: Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP
Client: Wildlife Conservation Society

ACXIOM CORPORATION CENTRAL ARKANSAS DATA CENTER
Little Rock, Arkansas
Architects: Polk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter Architects Ltd
Client: Acxiom Corporation
Contractor: May Construction Company

SPERTUS INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES
Chicago, Illinois
Architects: Krueck & Sexton Architects
Associate Architects: VOA Associates, Incorporated
Client: Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Contractor: W. E. O'Neil Construction

1180 PEACHTREE
Atlanta, Georgia
Architects: Pickard Chilton Architects
Associate Architects: Kendall/Heaton Associates
Client: Hines
Client: National Office Partners Limited Partnership LLC
Contractor: Turner Construction Company

BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
Brunswick, Maine
Architects: Machado and Silvetti Associates
Client: Bowdoin College
Contractor: Morley Construction Company

AQUA
Chicago, Illinois
Architects: Studio Gang Architects
Associate Architects: Loewenberg Architects
Client: Magellan Development Group, LLC.
Contractor: McHugh Construction Co.

BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY CAMPUS CENTER
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
Architects: RMJM Hillier
Client: Becton, Dickinson and Company
Contractor: Gilbane Inc.

ALEXANDRIA EGYPT MASTER PLAN
Alexandria, Egypt
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Client: EMAAR Properties
Client: Ministry of Culture, Egypt

INFINITY TOWER
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Client: Cayan Investment & Development
Contractors: Arabtec Construction LLC.

THE PARK AT LAKESHORE EAST
Chicago, Illinois
Architects: Office of James Burnett
Associate Architects: Site Design Group
Client: withheld
Contractor: McHugh Construction Co.

GEORGETOWN INCINERATOR
Washington, D.C.
Architects: Handel Architects LLP
Associate Architects: Shalom Baranes Associates, PC
Client: Millennium Partners LP.
Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease

SALT POINT HOUSE
Salt Point, New York
Architects: Thomas Phifer & Partners
Client: Cristina Grajales and Isabelle Kirshner
Contactor: Kevin Beck

ALVAH H. CHAPMAN JR. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
FLORIDA UNIVERSITY
Miami, Florida
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Associate Architects: BEA Architects Inc.
Client: Florida International University
Contractor: Centex Construction

HUDSON RAILYARDS TOWERS
New York, New York
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Client: Brookfield Properties Inc.
Structural Engineers: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Transportation Engineers: Parsons Transportation Group
Sustainable Design: Buro Happold
Geotechnical Engineers: Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco, California
Architects: LMN Architects
Client: City College of San Franciso

THE QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN VISITOR AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
Flushing, New York
Architects: BKSK Architects
Client: Queens Botanical Garden
Contractors: Ideal Construction

OVERATURE CENTER
Madison, Wisconsin
Architects: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Associate Architects: Potter Lawson & Flad Architects, LLC
Client: The Overature Development Corporation
Contractor: J. H. Findorff & Son, Inc.

CARNIVAL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Miami, Florida
Architects: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Client: Miami Dade County
Contractor: PACB J/V (Odebrecht Construction, Inc.; EllisDon Construction; and The Haskell Co.)

MONTECITO RESIDENCE
Santa Barbara, California
Architects: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen
Client: Withheld
Contractor: Young Construction, Inc.

THE REECE SCHOOL
New York, New York
Architects: Platt Byard Dovell White Architects LLP
Client: The Reece School
Contractor: The Stegla Group, Inc.

KELLY RESIDENCE
Los Angeles, California
Architects: Abramson Teiger Architects
Client: Caroline and Kevin Kelly
Contractor: 44 West Construction, Inc.

OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK
Seattle, Washington
Architects: Weiss/Manfredi
Client: Seattle Art Museum
Contractor: Sellen Construction Co.

AVRA VERDE
Tucson, Arizona
Architects: Tuck Joy Architects
Client: Saguaro National Park

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Architects: Allied Works Architecture
Associate Architects: I.D.S.
Client: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Contractor: Skanska USA Building Inc.

TRANSBAY TRANSIT CENTER: TERMINAL AND TOWER
San Francisco, California
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Client: Rockefeller Group Development Corporation
Contractor: Turner Construction Company

MAKE IT RIGHT
New Orleans, Louisiana
Architects: Trahan Architects
Client: Brad Pitt

CHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Architects: Trahan Architects
Client: Church of the Highlands

WORLD BUSINESS CENTER BUSAN
Busan, Korea
Architects: Asymptote Architecture
Associate Architects: Junglim Architecture
Client: Solomon Group
Structural Engineers: Ove Arup + Partners
Landscape Architects: Balmori Associates Inc.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ART + ARCHITECTURE BUILDING ADDITION
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Architects: The Miller|Hull Partnership LLP
Associate Architects: A3C Collaborative
Client: University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MARINE CORPS
Quantico, Virginia
Architects: Fentress Architects
Client: Marine Corps Heritage Center
Contractor: Balfour Beatty plc.

TYROL TOWER
Wörgl, Austria
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Client: AMB Invest GmbH

COLORADO CONVENTION CENTER PHASE II EXPANSION
Denver, Colorado
Architects: Fentress Architects
Associate Architects: The Abo Group
Client: City and County of Denver
Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction Co.

SANTA MONICA CIVIC CENTER PARKING STRUCTURE
Santa Monica, California
Architects: Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners
Associate Architects: International Parking Design
Client: City of Santa Monica
Contractor: ARB, Inc.

WATER + LIFE MUSEUMS CAMPUS
Hemet, California
Architects: Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build
Client: The Center for Water Education
Client: Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology
Contractor: Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build

OHR O'KEEFE MUSEUM
Biloxi, Mississippi
Architects: Gehry Partners LLP
Associate Architects: Guild Hardy Architects PA
Client: Ohr O'Keefe Museum

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CASE MEDICAL CENTER CANCER HOSPITAL
Cleveland, Ohio
Architects: Canon Design
Client: University Hospitals of Cleveland

WALDORF ASTORIA CHICAGO HOTEL AND RESIDENCES EAST
Chicago, Illinois
Architects: DeStefano & Partners
Client: The Fordham Company
Contractor:

NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY VISITOR CENTER
Normandy, France
Architects: SmithGroup
Associate Architects: John Lampros Architectes SARL
Client: American Battle
Monuments Commission
Contractor: American Battle Monuments Commission

AL HAMRA FIRDOUS TOWER
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Associate Architects: Al-Jazera
Consultants
Client: Al Hamra Real Estate Development LLC.
Contractors: Stanley Consultants, Inc.

CITY SANTA FE FOUR SEASONS AND RESIDENCES
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Associate Architects: Izquierdo
Ingenieros Y Associados, S.C.
Client: GICSA

HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL 2 AND SKYPLAZA
Hong Kong, PRC
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Associate Architects: Aedas Limited
Client: Hong Kong Airport Authority
Consultant: Maunsell Consultants Asia Ltd.
Structural and MEP Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Limited
Landscape Architects: EDAW

BEIJING FINANCE STREET
Beijing, PRC
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Client: Financial Street Holding Co., Ltd.

COMMUNITY ROWING BOATHOUSE
Boston, Massachusetts
Architects: Anmahian Winton Architects
Client: Community Rowing, Inc.
Contractor: Consigli Construction Co., Inc.
Structural Engineers: Richmond So Engineers, Inc.
Waterfront Structural Engineers: Childs Engineers Corporation, Inc.
Landscape Architects: Stantec Inc.

THE NEW BEIJING POLY PLAZA
Beijing, China
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Client: China Poly Group Corporation

SCIENCE BUILDING
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Client: Harvard University
Contractor: Bond Brothers, Inc.

TREE HOUSE
Wilmington, Delaware
Architects: Sander Architects, LLC.
Client: Leslie Sander
Contractor: Boss Enterprises
Engineers: CSWST2

GLENSTONE MUSEUM
Potomac, Maryland
Architects: Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects LLC.
Client: Withheld
Structural Engineers: Severud
Associates Consulting Engineers P.C.
Contractor: Lifecraft, Inc.
Civil Engineering: A. Morton Thomas and Associates, Inc.

WESTMINSTER ROSE CENTER
Westminster, California
Architects: CO Architects
Client: City of Westminster
Contractor: C. W. Driver
Structural Engineers: Martin & Associates
Landscape Architects: Whitin Design

GRAND TETON DISCOVERY AND VISITOR CENTER
Moose, Wyoming
Architects: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Client: National Park Service
Contractor: Intermountain Construction Inc.

NASHVILLE PUBLIC SQUARE
Nashville, Tennessee
Architects: Tuck-Hinton Architects
Associate Architects: WRT, LLC
Client: Metro Nashville Government
Contractor: Brasfield-Gorrie
Structural/Parking Engineers: Walker Parking Consultants
Engineers: Barge, Waggoner, Sumner & Cannon
Landscape Architects: Hawkins Partners, Inc.

LAKE FRONT RESIDENCE
Lake Bluff, Illinois
Architects: Booth Hansen Associates
Client: Mr. and Mrs. J. Otter

U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, REGION 8 HEADQUARTERS
Denver, Colorado
Architects: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP
Associate Architects: Opus Architects & Engineers, Inc.
Client: Environmental Protection Agency
Contractor: Opus Northwest LLC

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