Cleveland, Ohio – October 1, 2019 – LEARNING BY DESIGN magazine released today its much-anticipated October (Fall) 2019 edition, showcasing the nation’s best educational facility design and construction projects from early childhood, middle school, high school, specialized education and higher education college and university facilities. 73 projects featured in the edition took part in the fall 2019 Learning By Design Educational Architectural Awards Program.
These well-designed spaces have been enumerated as being best-in-class for their novel design thinking, strong facility planning attributes and success for exceeding the community’s or stakeholders’ operational, functional, and programmatic goals. Five of top education facility design projects were awarded a best-in-class Grand Prize Award, five others have been designated with Citation of Excellence Awards, and six others given Honorable Mention Awards.
The Five Grand Prize Awards where bestowed on the following firms and their projects to:
- VLK Architects (Fort Worth, TX) for the Allen ISD STEAM Center (Allen, TX);
- Hight Jackson Associates (Rogers, AR) for Arkansas Arts Academy 7-12 Campus Expansion and Renovation (Rogers, AR);
- DLR Group (Phoenix, AZ) for Canyon View High School (Waddell, AZ);
- Stantec (Butler, PA) for Lebanon Valley College - Jeanne and Edward H. Arnold Health Professions Pavilion (Annville, PA);
- BLRB Architects (Tacoma, WA) for Wilburton Elementary School (Bellevue, WA).
Fall 2019: Five CITATION OF EXCELLENCE Awards
- Roosevelt High School (Portland, OR) - Bassetti Architects (Portland, OR)
- Harrison Elementary School (Cottage Grove, OR - BLRB Architects (Tacoma, WA)
- Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School Campus (Washington, DC) - Page (Washington, DC)
- Monroe Creative Arts (Los Angeles, CA) - Perkins Eastman Dougherty (Costa Mesa, CA)
- University of Kentucky, Gatton Student Center (Lexington, KY) - Perkins+Will (Atlanta, GA)
Fall 2019: Four HONORABLE MENTION Awards
- Dr. J.P. Lord School (Omaha, NE) - BCDM Architects (Omaha, NE)
- Williams College Bookstore, Williams College (Williamstown, MA) – Cambridge Seven Architects (Cambridge, MA)
- Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium Robert B. Daugherty Education Center (Omaha, NE) -
DLR Group (Omaha, NE) - Woods Cross High School (Woods Cross, UT) - GSBS Architects (Salt Lake City, UT)
A distinguished panel of six architects, and educators and facility professionals reviewed, scored and debated the merits of 73 outstanding submissions and selected five Grand Prize Award-winning facilities that “are simply amazing projects.” Each of the five Grand Prize projects exhibited all the elements that make a learning environment successful—transparency, connectivity, safety, sustainability, great interiors, purposeful design, and sophistication.
Fall 2019 Jury Members:
- Rebecca Seward-Beamer AIA, Associate, BRIC Architecture, Inc., Portland, Oregon
- Susan Morgan, Project Manager, Associate Partner, BKV Group, Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Minneapolis, MN
- Julia Eiko Hawkinson, AIA, ALEP, LEED AP BD+C, O+M, WELL AP, Senior Facilities Development Manager, Los Angeles Unified School District, Asset Management | Planning & Development, Los Angeles, CA
- Page Dettmann, Ph.D., ALEP, Chief Education Evangelist, Meteoreducation.com
- Sharon Haar, FAIA, Professor and Architecture Program Chair, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Michelle Carpenter, Director | Education & Government, shaw contract, Cartersville, GA
Some of the juror’s comments about the Grand Prize winners included:
Arkansas Arts Academy 7-12 Campus Expansion and Renovation – “Great new spaces well integrated with the existing old building. Lots of natural light with Commons that opens up to courtyard by use of movable walls. This build fits the surrounding community and leverages the outdoors as a functional element of the learning environment (landscape as inspiration, outdoor theater seating).
Canyon View High School – “The design presents a bold building form and envelope to house a bold and ambitious program. The personality conveyed by the building feels appropriate and a good representation of a forward moving academic program looking to blur the line between high school and professional ambitions. There is impressive, high involvement of the community, government, and business in guiding the school’s design principles.
Lebanon Valley College - Jeanne and Edward H. Arnold Health Professions Pavilion -- “The Arnold Health Professions Pavilion is an example of balance: indoor spaces connected to outdoor spaces, daylight from facades from brought deep into the building, connected classrooms offering traditional and hands-on learning opportunities. As designers integrate collaboration and lounge spaces adjacent to classrooms, success will be found with the attention to detail seen in this project: ensuring areas of visual and physical privacy alongside more open and casual spaces ensures functionality.”
Wilburton Elementary School – “Interior and exterior design principles create an elegant yet fun elementary school. Not surprising given the corporate support, the community, and state requirements, this building succeeds in multiple areas: integration of interior and exterior spaces, flexibility of program distribution, sustainable design, technology, and careful attention to material choices.
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