AIA selects best buildings by American architects in 2019 Honor Awards
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the winners of its 2019 Honor Awards, which include David Adjaye's African American history museum, a preserved university building in Virginia, and BIG's adaptive reuse of a second-world-war bunker.
The 2019 AIA Institute Honor Awards recognises the top architecture projects by architects licensed in the USA. Eligible recipients can be located anywhere in the world, and either new designs or renovations.
This year, nine buildings were selected by AIA's five-person jury of architects and academics, and were awarded for their "sense of place and purpose, ecology, environmental sustainability and history", said a statement from AIA.
Announced yesterday, two of the best-known winners are BIG's concrete-and-glass museum in Denmark and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, both of which are cultural buildings.
This year's awards recognise a wide variety of architectural styles ? from contemporary builds to historic preservation.
An impressive amount of awarded projects are based in the southern US, including a renovated 1980s distribution centre in Tennessee, a rotunda revitalised for its 200th anniversary in Virginia, and a park with concrete "petals" for shelter in Texas.
Rounding out the set of buildings awarded are an affordable housing complex in New Orleans by OJT, a healthcare facility for those living with HIV/AIDS, a factory on the outskirts...
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