2024 Honor Award

Christ Church Anglican

Midland, TX

Rhotenberry Wellen Architects

An Anglican congregation required new worship facilities as a continued development of a comprehensive campus master plan. 10 years prior, the new congregation purchased 16 acres of land and built a building that would serve as temporary worship space until a permanent space was constructed. This project was programmed to be an addition to the existing building, and includes a new worship sanctuary serving 280 people, auxiliary spaces for the sanctuary, as well as site improvements including a new bell tower, shade structures, and a plaza to the west of the sanctuary.

2024 Honor Award

Sunset

San Antonio, TX

Card and Company Architects

Following a legacy of hospitality, community engagement, and architectural excellence in rural camps along the Frio River, the H. E. Butt Foundation needed an urban headquarters for hosting their neighbors in San Antonio. Here they would convene people from disparate demographics and zip codes in order to redefine their constituency’s understanding of the word neighbor.

Lubbock Tornado Memorial

Lubbock, TX

MWM Architects, Inc.

The Architects were asked to design a Memorial Gateway that honored those 26 who lost their lives to that F-5 and speak to Lubbock'srecovery. Many questions flooded the Design Team's thoughts.

• How do you reflect the immense destruction that Lubbock experienced?
• How do you honor and remember those 26 people who lost their lives to that F-5?
• How do you give a visitor a sense of just how truly enormous the F-5 was?
• How do you reflect a community that's been knocked down big time who stands back-up and comes out of this F-5 event better than ever.

WORD OF GOD MINISTRIES WORSHIP AND ACADEMY EXPANSION

Shreveport, LA

Hall Architecture Studio

The Word of God worship and academy expansion emphasizes the experiential architecture of a “Third Place” where the building serves as a “Social” place of community and compliments the first two places of “Home” and “Work”. The architecture accommodates activity anchors such as exterior open areas, interior multi-use gathering spaces and specific program rooms that foster a sense of place, civic connectivity and engagement. Characteristics include accessibility, flexibility and welcoming environments frequented by members and the community at large.

Human social interactions include physical and experiential options - whatever you are passionate about.

Freight Lane Hotel

Nairobi, Kenya

SODA (Thailand) Ltd.

Nairobi, Kenya is a diverse and cosmopolitan destination comprising a profound depth of African history and equally a dynamic and vibrant cultural scene of arts, music, crafts, and cuisine with no equal in East Africa. Nairobi is a global gateway for business travelers to Africa and tourists on safari journeys and for many guests, their first arrival and introduction to East Africa.

For our architectural planning and design for the new Marriott Freight Lane Hotel, we chose a direction of an, "Emerging hotel with its own individual style," with references to traditional or heritage planning and form yet an international, "Tropical Modern," architectural stylistic focus.

Lake Tapps Residence

Bonnie Lake, WA

First Lamp Architects

Nestled on the shores of Lake Tapps, this home shows off the harmony between architecture and environment as this design celebrates the beauty of its surroundings. The overarching concept celebrates the home’s setting which revolves around its integration with a challenging steep slope hillside with a deliberate step-down approach unveiling captivating vistas of Lake Tapps and the backdrop of Mount Rainier. The design ethos extends to the windows themselves, mirroring the elegance of the surrounding trees. The windows, characterized by their slender and lofty profiles, emulate the trunks of trees, while the sporadic mullions evoking the intricate branching patterns you’d find in nature.

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER

Abilene, TX

Parkhill

The architectural team was poised with providing an adequate research bay to house multiple molten-salt nuclear reactors along with supporting labs, office space, and a space to educate the public on the nuclear fission process. Design work began in March 2020 and continued through April 2021. One of the first challenges the design team faced was the arrangement of the programmatic spaces listed above into a cohesive floor plan. Key requirements included maintaing separation between public, private, and secured space. Simple geometric forms identify the distinct programmatic areas, lobby (public), office (private), and laboratory (secure), and are reinforced by a restrained exterior material palette of concrete, metal tiles, glass, stucco, and ACU’s campus brick.

The Good Shed

Midland, TX

Parkhill

Growing travel demands for their portfolio of companies, non-profits, foundations, and their love for family travel demanded larger aircraft and multiple aircraft for this Midland, TX family. The challenge was to create a hangar, housing multiple aircraft capable of international travel while also providing resort-quality lounge space.

The volume of the pre-engineered metal building (PEMB) hangar is expansive. The lounge space was meticulously designed to reduce over multiple layers to mitigate the difficult scale. Premium regional materials were selected for the lower massing with texture as an important design consideration. Regional limestone provides an upscale and durable finish. A bold satin black metal panel product was chosen to contrast the natural stone. Varying rib spacing was precisely scheduled to create a fabric-like texture from a distance.

Patriots' Hall Meeting House

Dripping Springs, TX

Darwin Harrison Design

A handwritten sign posted by Shorty Barnett led to the formation of a non-profit organization dedicated to the mission of providing local Veteran groups a place to meet worthy of their service and sacrifice. Immediately, donors felt compelled to dream bigger to provide more than the Veterans were asking.

A prominent 10 acre property on Highway 290 just outside Dripping Springs was acquired. Extensive programming was conducted to get Veteran input on what could be envisioned. The master plan now includes several key structures as well as multiple outdoor spaces including gardens, hiking and obstacle trails, proposed equestrian areas and fishing pond. The buildings planned include a small Meeting House as the Phase One, seed project. Although small in stature, its significance is profound.

Lumen on Ninth

Columbus, OH

Parallel

Lumen on Ninth is a five-story, 143-unit, 351-bed student housing project along 9th Avenue just east of High Street in Columbus, Ohio. Situated in Columbus’ vibrant university district one block from campus. Lumen on Ninth provides residents with a pedestrian-to-campus location and curated modern amenities, bringing a new standard to the Columbus market.

The challenge of the development, located on just one acre, was designing a building that maximized efficiency, achieving 82% within stringent rezoning, securing municipal and neighborhood alliances, and meeting very strict parking requirements while still providing elegant design and highly amenitized assets for the residents.

Downtown Park and Convention Center

Midland, TX

Rhotenberry Wellen Architects

The convention center site was the location of an existing, antiquated convention center and an adjoining building that housed the local chamber of commerce. The ½ city block site was bounded on three sides by busy downtown thoroughfares with a hotel, condos, and office buildings, and on the fourth side by an alley that was being vacated to provide direct access to the new adjacent urban park.

The park incorporates sustainable design strategies that include harvesting the storm water from the convention center roof to supplement irrigation, and landscaping that features native and adapted plants appropriate for the climate. Over 100 new trees were planted in the park. Existing historical site features including a clock tower by Frank Welch, FAIA, were preserved and incorporated into the new design.