Honor Bound, Merits Earned
AIA New Mexico 2009 Design Awards
A fire station, an arts center and a view-grabbing home were among the winners of the 2009 AIA New Mexico design awards competition, announced during the chapter’s convention in Albuquerque this fall. In addition to design awards, Robert G. Mallory, AIA, received the New Mexico Architects Medal, and Don P. Schlegel, FAIA, received the AIA New Mexico Silver Medal, both for lifetime achievement in their profession.
Here are the Honor and Merit design awards.
Honor Awards
Merit Awards
Ruidoso Main Fire Station and Emergency Operations Center
Ruidoso, New Mexico
Rohde May Keller McNamara Architecture, PC
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Ruidoso, a fast-growing town in southern New Mexico, had outgrown its old 1930s-era fire department. In fact, the old equipment bay doors, designed for 1930s-sized vehicles, were so small that present-day firefighters had to deflate truck tires to pass through. The new station’s long design was dictated by the selection of a narrow, three-acre site at the base of a steep mountain. The two-story, $3.8 million fire station features an elevation influenced by regional architecture and includes materials such as cedar siding, reinforced concrete retaining walls, steel framing and a Galvalume roof. The 14,500-square-foot plan features four equipment bays, a fitness center, living quarters for the crew, a training classroom and, yes, a fire pole.
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
at Colorado College
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Antoine Predock Architect, PC
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The 75,000-square-foot interdisciplinary arts teaching and performance center was conceived from the Colorado Arts Initiative, which began as a series of conversations and brainstorming sessions between members of the arts and humanities faculties as a way of living in the creative arts. The center, designed with Denver’s Anderson Mason Dale serving as executive architect, was sited between downtown Colorado Springs and the historic campus. Its design expresses a series of pathways converging and crossing on the site and includes views of Pike’s Peak. The building features a 450-seat main theater, screening room, digital media labs, performance studios, a costume shop, flexible classrooms and more. A central element is its Interdisciplinary Experimental Arts (IDEA) space, an installation area that can host exhibitions, performances and events that integrate the arts into the campus and community. The building has received LEED Gold Certification.
Flyway View House
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jon Anderson Architecture
Albuquerque, New Mexico
 
Snow geese, sandhill cranes and whooping cranes contributed to the design of this house, located near the Rio Grande Nature Center and the Rio Grande river corridor, an area known as a migratory flyway. The home, sited in a cottonwood bosque, was created to maximize views of the bird habitat and distant mountains, and to take advantage of solar exposure and passive ventilation. Broad expanses of glass link the home’s interior to the outdoors, while overhangs protect the glass from summer sun.
Duodna Fine Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, Illinois
Antoine Predock Architect, PC
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The fine arts center, done with Chicago’s Cannon Design, is the renovation and expansion of an existing facility. The design of the new, $44 million, 235,000-square-foot facility was inspired by Midwestern grain elevators and silos, with a material palette that includes copper, colored and clear faceted glass, pre-cast concrete and stained-brick masonry. The new arts center includes a 300-seat theater, a black box studio, 600-seat concert hall, 180-seat recital hall, 150-seat lecture hall and art galleries. It also houses the university’s art, music and theater departments.
Duranes Elementary School
Kindergarten and Classroom Building
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Baker Architecture + Design
Albuquerque, New Mexico
 
A new kindergarten and classroom building for an existing elementary school campus had to fit into a limited site, influencing an angled design that allows students to “cut the corner” on their way to the main playground and pressing the roofline down, creating a low profile along the building’s northern edge. Designed to meet LEED For Schools Certified standards, the building emphasizes natural daylighting, thermal insulation, low water-use plumbing fixtures, radiant heating and other sustainable strategies.
Santa Fe Rape Crisis Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Spears Architects, Inc.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
 A new, 11,600-square-foot facility, parking lot and grounds designed for the local rape crisis center consolidate the center’s many departments under one roof. The H-shaped building features a floorplan that places the reception, waiting area, circulation and staff quarters in the center, flanked by two long wings. Color-coded and curved walls add interest and help with wayfinding. Sandblasted glass in storefront windows provide light, yet maintain privacy for clients and staff members. The landscape, used to create visual calming, is watered via roof runoff, which is directed into underwater cisterns.
 Rio Grande School Administration
and Classroom Building
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Spears Architects, Inc.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A new 11,888-square-foot building for this private elementary school allowed its administrative functions to move to the front of the campus, serving as a gateway and monitoring point for the school grounds. The building, which also includes five classrooms, a multi-media center, computer lab and outdoor terrace spaces, features large stretches of windows that bring in natural daylight, ventilation and views. A water catchment system collects rainwater from the T-shaped roof and directs it to arid-region plantings that surround the terraces.
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