Project of the Year - Renovation/Restoration The Grand Opera House is one of the few Wisconsin buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, and it is a testament to Victorian design with elaborate wall and ceiling decorations and curved ceiling beams and columns rising up on either side of the stage proscenium. Photo: Thompson Photo Imagery div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Above the decoration, timber roof trusses, first set in 1883, had to be made level again and reinforced with steel without damaging historical elements. Early in 2009, the owner closed the main hall of the Grand Opera

Project of the Year - Interior Design/Tenant Improvement The L’Etoile and Graze restaurants occupy the southwest corner of the first floor of the U.S. Bank building, a large all-glass fa�ade building in Madison’s Capital Square. Photo: Mike Rebholz div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The restaurants needed their own entrance into their new location in the building, but entrance from the street was restricted by two large concrete stair towers from the building’s original 1970s construction. It was determined that two side-by-side stairs were not required for egress, but were actually an architectural feature from the original design and only

Award of Merit - Architectural Design This cutting-edge new parking facility was conceived to respond to the client’s diverse requirements, including providing much-needed parking to a busy urban area, meeting LEED-NC certification criteria, off-setting energy costs, educating and inspiring users about living sustainably and providing an elegant and distinctive architectural image within a highly-functional and efficient structure. Photo: Mcshane-fleming Studios div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Meeting these requirements came with a broad array of challenges, issues and constraints that were successfully met by the design and construction team. Initially, the design team was challenged to envision what a green

Project of the Year - Green Building Holy Wisdom Monastery is the home of the Benedictine Women of Madison. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Originally, the 130-acre site overlooking Lake Mendota consisted of two main buildings: the monastery and Benedict House, which was built in 1953 as a girls’ boarding school and closed in 1966. In 1996, with the help of volunteers, the owner began a 10-year project of restoring 95 acres of farmland to prairie and then restored a glacial lake to its original size by dredging it of silt. The owner concluded that the underutilized, 60,000-sq-ft Benedict

Project of the Year - K-12 Education (Tie) From the wetlands surrounding it to the high-performance systems within it, Hubble Middle School is one of the first of three schools in Illinois to achieve LEED for Schools certification at the Gold level. Photo: Tim Benson Photography div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The 190,000-sq-ft facility showcases the latest in program-driven middle school design and serves 1,078 students. The facility supports the curriculum, reduces student commutes and opens to the community. The construction manager and architect worked closely to ensure that all contractors used sustainable building practices. During one walk-through, the

Award of Merit - Office The project team built a new steel frame to hold an independent glass wall system around one of Indianapolis’ most recognizable buildings, replacing a surface damaged by storm winds. Crews created an innovative construction technique to install the new face. Photo: Carl Van Rooy Photography div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Once the exterior glass wall was complete, the contractor demolished and removed the old exterior from the inside with minimal disruption to tenants. The One Indiana Square Project had several unique and challenging aspects during both design and construction of the project. The most

Award of Merit - Transportation The existing Adelaide Bridge over North Third and Broadway in St. Louis was built in 1972. Located directly above two rail systems, it is the only thoroughfare for the area’s trucking industry to get to and from the industrial businesses on Hall Street. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Many who travel the bridge regularly voiced concern for their safety as the 30-plus-year-old bridge deck showed obvious signs of deterioration. In order for traffic to continue on the bridge, MoDOT needed to make the necessary maintenance improvements, including demolition and reconstruction of the superstructure, widening

Award of Merit - Higher Education/Research Teng was builder, architect and engineer for this complex, $58.4 million design-build construction project located on an 11-acre site at Argonne National Laboratory in Darien, Ill. Photo: Hedrich Blessing Photographers div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The 241,698-sq-ft Theory and Computing Sciences facility was specifically designed to be an open and flexible workplace to encourage the flow of ideas between Argonne scientists and researchers from across the globe. The design intent of the building was to have exposed structure, no ceilings and an openness to foster interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers. The heart of the

Award of Merit - Higher Education/Research The new building at BJC Institute of Health at Washington University School of Medicine houses facilities for both Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Photo; Liquiddrift div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The state-of-the-art structure adds nearly 700,000 sq ft of laboratory space in the heart of St. Louis to enhance scientific research and patient care. The project included the demolition of the existing parking structure, construction of a new 11-story high-rise and lower level with a new shipping and receiving area, nine docking bays, a tunnel under Euclid Avenue large enough

Award of Merit - Renovation/Restoration Bank of Washington is the oldest and largest independently owned bank in Franklin County, Missouri. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Running out of space, the owner was faced with a decision to move out of historic downtown Washington or find a solution for gaining more space in a land-locked location. After evaluating the options with the design team, the owner decided to stay downtown. Working with the City of Washington, HBD was allowed to close part of Main Street and covert it into a one way road that allowed enough room to drill the