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Beyond
the Blueprints
AIA recognizes the best buildings of the year
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Business New Haven
12/29/1997
By: BNH
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The 1997 Design Awards have been onferred by the Connecticut chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Of the 13 projects recognized, eight were designed and built locally and are pictured here.
Of the remaining five, one award was given to the Southport firm of Austin Patterson Disston Architects for the Boyle Residence in Quogue, N.Y.; two were given two New Haven's Cesar Pelli & Associates for the NTT Shinjuku Head Office in Tokyo, Japan and the Arnoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, O.; and two were given to New York firms: bnk Architects for a pool house in West Hartford, and Zivkovic Associates Architects for the Valley High Farm stables in Greenwich.
Special achievement honors went to Beinfield Wagner Architects in Norwalk for the SoNo Revitalization, which included 50 projects in downtown South Norwalk, such as converting a 1924 building into the Creative Arts Center at One Marshall Street (shown below).
Winning designs were chosen from 88 submissions. The jurors were architects Walter F. Chatham of Walter F. Chatham Architect in New York; Museum of Modern Art department of architecture and design chief curator Terence Riley; and Amy Weinstein of Weinstein Associates Architects, Washington, D.C.
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