Patkau’s Audain Art Museum wins 2018 AIA Award
In Whistler, British Columbia, Patkau Architects’ sculptural Audain Art Museum has added another major award to its impressive list of honours. Already the recipient of the 2017 AIBC Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Medal in Architecture, as well a Canadian Wood Council Design Award, John and Patricia Patkau’s project was named one of only eight winners at the 2018 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Awards.
Audain Art Musuem, Patkau Architects. Photo by James Dow, via AIA.
The sole Canadian winner, the Audain Art Museum joins seven prominent projects from across American and the world, including Ross Barney Architects’ new Chicago Riverwalk, Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s and Gensler’s The Broad, and Skimore, Owings & Merill’s New United States Courthouse in Los Angeles. Completed in 2016, the 56,000 square foot museum ? which houses the private collection of philanthropist Michael Audain ? is located on a challenging site that combines former industry with a spectacular tree canopy and an average of over 15 feet of snow annually.
Audain Art Musuem, Patkau Architects. Photo by James Dow, via AIA.
According to the AIA, “the museum responds to these challenges by projecting a volume of public spaces and galleries into a natural void in the forest. The building?s form and its siting work together with the trees to exaggerate the embrace of the reclaimed meadow. Elevated one full story, a bridge at street level draws visi...
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