2007 Design Awards Winners
Honor Award
Project: Historic Preservation of the Hippodrome Theater
Architect: Murphy & Dittenhafer, Inc.
Client: Maryland Stadium Authority
This is an excellent theater renovation and restoration that brought back what was exceptional about the original building while sensitively incorporating a multi-level lobby, increased seating, and a larger stagehouse to accommodate touring Broadway productions. New technical demands necessary in new buildings are also accommodated in the existing building without the observer being aware of them. This architect has exhibited an appropriate level of humility while honoring this 1914 building that had fallen into extensive disrepair.
Honor Award
Project: Greenway Tech Centre
Architect: NuTec Design Associates, Inc.
Client: Crispus Attucks Association of York
This is a beautiful project throughout— from plan to detail. The new addition that fills in a shallow U-shaped factory building, providing a new entry, toilets, and vertical circulation, is at the right location and creates an excellent dialogue between the new and old. The new entry piece with its metal sunscreen is the same width as the two flanking brick elements of the old building. The sunscreen, which is beautifully detailed, interestingly appears as solid as the brick during the day, but is transparent at night. The exterior and interior of the existing factory were carefully and sensitively restored.
Merit Award
Project: Swatara Township Volunteer Fire Company, Station 1
Architect: Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates
Client: Swatara Township Board of Supervisors
This building accommodates the Township’s first professional fire company through the merger of two volunteer companies. The completed station includes the renovation of an existing building, the addition of a new pre-engineered building, a new pedestrian entry, and a new brick house drying and training tower. The completed culturally responsive complex doubled the size of the existing building. It is a beautifully detailed and very utilitarian public building that mostly avoids current clichés and demonstrates civic responsibility.
Merit Award
Project: Middletown Middle School
Architect: Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates
Client: Middletown Area School District
An excellent example of a very good building that was created on a reasonably tight budget within all of the constraints presented by this most challenging building type. The three-story block of repetitive classrooms is sited to form a courtyard with the single-story collective spaces that are very nicely handled. The interiors of this project are especially strong with smaller elements and interesting details used to bring the scale of the larger spaces down. It is refreshing to see some carefully controlled interiors in which everything is not covered up. This is an architecture that was created out of the necessities of making a building.
Citation Award
Project: HACC York Center
Architect: NuTec Design Associates, Inc.
Client: Harrisburg Area Community College
The first thee phases in the conversion of a twenty-two year old warehouse into a community college. In this fast-track project large areas of curtain wall at the entrances, the use of interior glass partitions, and the careful layout of the inteors permits daylight to penetrate deeply into the building. This is a project that is without clichés, but with rather ordinary materials that are handled with great care. There are some areas, especially at the entrances that are handled with great skill. The new exterior is quiet and the screen wall that hides the truck dock is quite handsome.
