IDID Awards at AIA New Hampshire

Integrated Design/Integrated Development Excellence in Sustainable Design and Development Awards 2010

Winners of the fifth Excellence in Sustainable Design and Development Awards Program were announced at the April 16-17, 2010 Sustainable Design: From LEED to Living Buildings / IDID VI Conference at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

The IDID Awards Program honors architecture, landscape architecture, planning, or historic preservation projects that demonstrate a high level of sustainable principles and excellence in design. Projects of all scopes were solicited and winners were based on the project's beneficial impact to the physical environment and its positive affect on the cultural landscape.

Honor Award:
Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA
Architects: William Rawn Associates, Architects
Associate Architect: Ann Beha Architects, Boston, MA
Robert Benson Photography

Jurors' Comments:
Elegant project, excellent example of sophisticated building systems and exemplar presentation. A very successful interplay between contemporary sustainable technologies and meticulous restoration efforts. Preservation of the projects inherent cultural value was very significant part of its success and the restoration and renovation work was done very well. This project is both state-of-the art and a thoughtful historic renovation.

Honor Award:
Hawaii Preparatory Academy Energy Lab
Kamuela Hawaii
Architects: Flansburgh Architects, Boston, MA
Photo: Mathew Millman

Jurors' Comments:
A strikingly simple, very well executed, and exceptionally well conceived building. The project is an elegant building that successfully weaves its sustainable technologies into its place in the landscape. The presentation demonstrated both project performance and a process that lead to this well-thought-out and well-designed building. Project is very “at home on its site,” very fitting to its nature education mission, with the design benefiting from a meaningful understanding of it site.

Merit Award:
Kathryn W. Davis Student Village
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine
Architects: Coldham & Hartman Architects, Amherst, MA
Landscape Architects: Coplon Associates, Bar Harbor, ME
Photo: Sam Coplon; John R. Rivers

Jurors' Comments:
A very successful project, green to the core. Project’s vernacular aesthetic works well with the residential community scale buildings. Building systems and design very thoughtful executed. The project is very appropriate to its site and context. The project budget was used very strategically and efficiently. The buildings are an excellent model for other similar projects.

Merit Award:
Hannaford Brothers Grocery Store, Augusta, ME
Architects: Next Phase Studios, Inc., Boston, MA
Associate Architect: WBRC Architects and Engineers, Bangor, ME
Photo: Rick Ames AIA, Next Phase Studios

Jurors' Comments:
This project makes significant improvement to a ubiquitous building typology. Potential impact of the project is greater then a single building and hopefully will become a ‘transformative’ model for future development. Good example of what can be done by a for-profit owner. Project conveys a meaningful cultural message.

Merit Award:
Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Campus, Columbia University, Palisades, New York
Architects: Payette, Boston, MA
Landscape Architects: Payette, Boston, MA
Photo: Warren Jagger Photography

Jurors' Comments:
A beautiful building with a clear and simple parti. The Subtle division of spaces reinforces the sustainability goals and also successfully creates interesting dynamic spaces. Presentation balanced design and technical information quite well. This project is a great example of how to approach an integrated design process, and can quite easily be seen as a model for similar development.

The Jury
The Jury, from Philadelphia, PA, consisted of:

Kelly French Vresilovic, AIA, LEED AP
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Architecture | Planning | Interior Design

Richard Roark, RLA, ASLA, LEED AP
The Olin Studio

Fredda Lippes, RA, LEED AP
Design and Construction Project Manager
City of Philadelphia,
Mayor’s Office of Sustainability

Daniel K. Garofalo, AIA, LEED AP
Environmental Sustainability Coordinator
University of Pennsylvania

Jason E. Smith, AIA
Kieran Timberlake

Wolfram Arendt, AIA, LEED AP
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson