2019 AIA NE Excellence in Design Program

Congratulations to the 2019 AIA Nebraska Excellence In Design Award Recipients.

Four Honor Awards, three Merit Awards, four Citation Awards and seven People’s Choice Awards were presented during the AIA Nebraska Excellence in Design Awards Gala on November 8, 2019 at the Assemblage Gallery in Lincoln, NE. AIA Nebraska received 82 entries for the Excellence in Design Awards Program.

Excellence in Design Jury Chair Carrie Strickland, FAIA, Works Progress Architecture in Portland, Oregon was in attendance to present the awards. This year’s jury consisted of three Portland-based architects including Brian Cavanaugh, AIA, Architecture Building Culture, and Amy Donahue, AIA, BORA.

Award recipients can be viewed here.

Images from the 2019 AIA Nebraska Excellence in Design Gala can be seen at Jesse James Photography.

Excellence in Design Jury

Carrie Strickland, FAIA, Jury Chair, Works Progress Architecture, Portland, OR.


Brian Cavanaugh, AIA, Architecture Building Culture, Portland, OR.


Amy Donahue, AIA, BORA, Portland, OR.

Categories
Architecture
Encourage and recognize excellence in new buildings, restoration, and adaptive reuse.
Interior Architecture
Encourage and recognize excellence in interior architecture.
Unbuilt
Architectural design work that, to date remains unbuilt. Unbuilt architectural designs of any project type are eligible, including purely theoretical projects and unbuilt client-sponsored projects, such as buildings, interiors, transportation infrastructure, and monuments.
Architectural Detail
Encourage and recognize architectural detail or design concept in use of a particular material, detail or building technology, detail may stand alone or reinforce an overall building concept in an exceptional manner.
Masonry (sponsored by the Nebraska Masonry Alliance)
Bringing recognition to AIA Nebraska members based on the technical and creative use of masonry in meeting aesthetic and functional design challenges. Projects are required to have masonry installed by mason contractors.
Emerging Architects Unbuilt Design
Unbuilt Design – Architectural design work that, to date remains unbuilt. Unbuilt architectural designs of any project type are eligible, including purely theoretical projects and unbuilt client – sponsored projects, such as buildings, interiors, transportation infrastructure, and monuments.
Emerging Architects can be AIAS, Associate AIA, or AIA members of AIA Nebraska under the age of 40 as of the end of 2018.
Emerging Architects Architectural Detail
Architectural Detail – Encourage and recognize architectural detail or design concept in use of a particular material, detail, or building technology. Detail may stand alone or reinforce an overall building concept in an exceptional manner.
Emerging Architects can be AIAS, Associate AIA, or AIA members of AIA Nebraska under the age of 40 as of the end of 2018.

The Assemblage


THE ASSEMBLAGE; FIRM: ALLEY POYNER MACCHIETTO ARCHITECTURE. PHOTOGRAPHER: ERIN GIANNANGELO.

The Assemblage
An existing, non-descript brick building, originally constructed as a 1925 repair garage, was purchased to house the contemporary collections of two prominent collectors. The open floor plan, supported by a barrel-vaulted steel trusses, made the existing building an ideal location for a private gallery and event space. Additions to the space consist of sizeable openings punched into its east façade allowing views to a future sculpture garden, “floating” art display walls placed on the exposed masonry walls.

Previous Awards
Click here to view previous year’s Excellence in Design Awards.