Jurors' Comments:
• Great Project!
• This is an excellent example of how building reuse, attractive design, and sustainable building strategies can come together. Eye catching design incorporates reused building into very fresh contemporary design
• Project deserves credit for its holistic approach. Addressing building reuse, brownfield redevelopment, storm water runoff, daylighting, etc. – Beyond the immediate site, the new use seems to benefit the planning of the neighborhood. – Daylights seem very successful, spaces appear to fit use very well. – Storm water management efforts were appreciated, particularly in their front and center demonstrative nature. – Impressive achievement considering cost and schedule constraints.
• Very impressive project–great model of how to reinvigorate an existing building.
Photo by Anton Grassl/Esto

Merit Award:
Foster Student Innovation Center, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME
Architect: Oak Point Associates, Biddeford, ME
Construction Manager: Bowman Brothers, Newport, ME

Jurors' Comments:
• Interesting design and great example of alternative ways to develop portions of educational campus.
• Efforts to minimizing site disturbance and engaging with the wooded environment were very successful.
• Good design, simple and very appropriate.
• The use of local materials truly benefits the design.
• Very good use of daylight, thorough while benefiting the organization and functioning of building.
• Innovative roof systems and real world testing opportunity, very interesting synthesis, and good example of the continued development of green technologies.
• Project deserves credit for efforts to integrate the end users in the design project.
Photo by Kim Roseberry, Oak Point Associates

Merit Award:
CarMax Home Office, Richmond, VA
Architect: ADD Inc, Cambridge, MA Contractor: KBS, Richmond, VA
Landscape Architects: Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., Watertown, MA
Construction Manager: Brookwood Program Management, Atlanta, GA

Jurors' Comments:
• A meaningfully modern building, being of its time while connected to its location, climate, and use.
• Excellent job minimizing site disturbance and engaging with the wooded environment.
• A technical, eloquent response.
• Easy to miss the subtlety of both the technical and design responses, but their merit is clearly apparent.
• Very interesting development of the building skin on the various exposures.
• Thoughtfully executed design.
• The submission itself was a nice balance of graphic presentation and technical information.
• The commuter site however does tend to detract from the sustainability of the building type.
• Great model of what greening a contemporary office building can look like.
Photo by Prakash Patel

Honorable Mention:
Tin Mountain Conservation Center, Conway, NH
Architect: Christopher P. Williams Architects, Meredith, NH
Mechanical & Solar System Design: Solar Design Associates, Harvard, MA

Jurors' Comments:
• An attractive and appropriate design – appears to thoroughly belong on the site.
• Very well crafted spaces – ambitious sustainability goals eloquently integrated in to a very attractive building.
• Sustainability elements very successfully executed – very meaningful scale and impact.
• Presentation could have "popped" a little more – not necessarily the polish, but the story telling, particularly the secondary sustainability strategies such as: passively tempered spaces, daylighting, and ventilation.
Photo by John Hession, Advanced Digital Photography

The Jury
The jury session was hosted by The City of Portland Office of Sustainability at their offices in the LEED Gold Eco-Trust Building. Special thanks to Michael Armstrong.   

Ron Gronowski AIA, LEED AP
Ron is a principal at Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership with over 33 years of professional experience in architecture and urban design. He has filled the roles of project designer, project architect and project manager, and his experience has included many large-scale and technically complex projects. A member of ZGF since 1979, he has been responsible for the technical quality assurance of projects from the design phase through construction. Since 1998, Ron has been the Director of Architecture for the firm. He provides quality assurance on selected projects, serves as overall coordinator of the firm's staffing needs and assignments, and chairs the firm's Projects Committee. For many years, Ron has had an interest in the environment and the practice of sustainable design. His specific areas of expertise include the technical interpretation of a project's quality assurance/design intent, the art and theory of construction documents and detailing, and professional development and architectural practice issues.

Dr. Kirk Ranzetta
Kirk Ranzetta is an Architectural Historian with ENTRIX, an environmental consulting firm and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He has worked as a Review and Compliance Coordinator and National Register Program Coordinator for the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and also served as a contract architectural historian for the Maryland Historical Trust. Dr. Ranzetta received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Delaware and his B.A. in Historic Preservation at Mary Washington University. He also attended the University of Florida's Preservation Institute: Nantucket. His book I'm Goin' Down County: An Architectural History of St. Mary's County, Maryland is due to be published by the Maryland Historical Trust Press in late 2008.  

Jason King ASLA, LEED AP  
Jason is a landscape architect with 11 years of diverse landscape architecture experience. He has worked on ecological design projects, large-scale park and recreation projects, system master plans, site design, healing environments, and innovative stormwater practices. His focus on sustainable and ecological design aspects of landscape architecture includes a number of ecoroof designs, rooftop gardens, and agriculturally productive landscapes. He has written and presented specifically on LEED for landscape architecture, healing gardens, innovative stormwater management techniques, ecoroof design and development, neighborhood approaches to watershed-based planning, and the aesthetics of ecological landscapes.