AIA Rhode Island announces Archistar, design award winners

By PBN Staff
Twitter: @ProvBusNews

PROVIDENCE – AIA Rhode Island, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects, has announced the winners of the 2012 Design Awards Program.

The annual competition celebrates outstanding works of architecture from Rhode Island architects and honors the project teams and clients who work with them.

The chapter also awarded its prestigious Archistar Award, which recognizes exceptional individual contributions to architecture by non-architects.

Clark Schoettle, executive director of the Providence Revolving Fund, was selected for the 2012 Archistar Award for “working tirelessly to preserve Providence’s architectural heritage and stimulating community revitalization through advocacy, lending, technical assistance, and development in historic areas.”

The Archistar jury included Abernathy Lighting Design’s Kathy Abernathy, Megan Moynihan of Oysterworks LLC and previous Archistar winner, Lucie Searle, of AS220.

The winners of AIAri’s 2012 Annual Design Awards were as follows:

• Honor Award: Hillside Hall, Kingston

  Category: Educational/Institutional

  Architect: LLB Architect

• Honor Award: Archie R. Cole Middle School, East Greenwich

  Category: Educational/Institutional

  Architect: Symmes, Maini & McKee Associates

• Merit Award: Interlink, Warwick

  Category: Commercial/Industrial

  Architect: Northeast Collaborative Architects

• Merit Award: AS220 Mercantile Block, Providence

  Category: Adaptive Reuse

  Architect: Durkee, Brown, Viveiros, & Werenfels

• Merit Award: Fort Adams Redoubt Jail, Newport

  Category: Historic Preservation

  Architect: Northeast Collaborative Architects

• Merit Award: Twin Peaks, Warwick

  Category: Residential

  Architect: Jim Estes, Estes Twombly Architects

• Merit Award: Hillside House, Block Island

  Category: Residential

  Architect: Tracey Dillon Architecture

• Honor Award: Marsh House, Ipswitch, Mass.

  Category: Residential

  Architect: Peter Twombly, Estes Twombly Architects

• Merit Award: Vedanta Society, Providence

  Category: Interiors

  Architect: William Kite Architects

• Merit Award: Narragansett Bay Commission Field’s Point Administration Building, Providence

  Category: Sustainable Design

  Architect: William Kite Architects

• Honor Award: Concord Riverwalk, Concord, Mass.

  Category: Sustainable Design

  Architect: Union Studio Architecture & Design

• Merit Award: Community MusicWorks, Providence

  Category: Unbuilt

  Architect: 3SIX0 Architecture