Two Canadian Firms with AIA Awards
Two Canadian architecture firms have won awards in the AIA?s annual awards program. Hariri Pontarini Architects won an AIA Award for Architecture for Casey House, a healthcare facility in Toronto, and Looney Ricks Kiss, in association with DIALOG was part of a team recognized for the Crosstown Concourse project in Memphis, Tennessee.
“We are very pleased that Crosstown Concourse has received the AIA Award for Architecture. This project was focussed on communal design and social interaction, and has proven to be truly transformative for this part of Memphis. It is heartening to receive recognition for design that truly changes people?s lives in profound ways,” said Alan Boniface, Architect AIBC AAA MRAIC AIA
The projects were among nine awards given by the five-member jury for the 2019 cycle. The American Institute of Architects award program celebrates the best contemporary architecture by projects that demonstrate the ways buildings and spaces have the ability to improve lives. Firms: Looney Ricks Kiss, in association with DIALOG
Project: Crosstown Councourse
Location: Memphis
Photo Courtesy of DIALOG
Looney Ricks Kiss in association with DIALOG and Spatial Affairs Bureau teamed with Memphis community activists, planners and developers to revitalize a 1.3-million-square foot Art Deco Sears building in the urban core of Memphis, Tennessee. The retail distribution center had been abandoned since the early 1980s.
Renamed Crosstown Concourse, it has become a ver...
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