Robert A.M. Stern Architects Wins Two 2011 AIA New York State Design Awards

January 12, 2012

Two Robert A.M. Stern Architects projects have been recognized in the AIA New York State’s 2011 Design Awards program.

The East Hampton Town Hall, which takes a collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century timber-framed vernacular buildings—important evocations of local culture—and organizes them as a campus for municipal government, won a Citation for Design in the Adaptive Reuse category. The jury praised the design as “a clear and concise solution that seamlessly integrates old and the new resulting in perhaps one of the finest town halls in America.”

Comcast Center, a 58-story office tower in Center City Philadelphia, won an Award of Merit for Commercial/Industrial – Large Projects. The jury described the tower as “an example of a high rise that succeeds architecturally and urbanistically at the skyline and street.  The lobby, transit concourse level, and outdoor plaza/café activate a long neglected section of Philadelphia’s downtown.”

Instituted in 1968, the AIA New York State Design Awards celebrate, honor, and promote excellence in design by New York State architects for their creativity and imagination in solving design problems for their clients and to generate greater public interest in architecture.  The jurors reviewed more than 300 entries and selected 28 projects to receive a Design Award. The jurors were Chair, David Mark Riz, AIA, of KieranTimberlake; Robert M. Noblett, AIA, of Behnisch Arkitekten; Michael Ryan, AIA, of Michael Ryan Architects; Robert Shibley, FAIA, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Buffalo; and Elizabeth Egbert, President and CEO, Staten Island Museum.