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The Charles Blessing Award was bestowed posthumously to Colin Hubbell for his efforts to revitalize Detroit by building bridges of inclusion, respect and community. Livonia architect Benedetto Tiseo, AIA received AIA Detroit’s highest honor, the Gold Medal, for his efforts to improve architectural practice. Two Honorary Affiliates were named: Ron Rea, a designer based in Birmingham, and Michael Stapleton, founder of Prop Art Studio in Detroit and creator of the Red Wings purple octopus. Plaques were awarded to the firms that created the work and to the building owners whose cooperation and understanding of the work made creative solutions possible. A panel of distinguished architects, headed by Pittsburgh, PA architect Rob Pfaffmann, chose the winning buildings from among 47 anonymous entries: The winners include inFORM Studio, a Northville-based firm that captured four plaques overall for EnovateIT in Ferndale, Bagley Avenue Pedestrian Bridge in Detroit, Traverwood Library in Ann Arbor, and Farmington Hills City Hall, Farmington Hills. SHW Group, Berkley, scored two winners: William Atkinson Hall Information and Technology Center in Jackson and the College of Education & Human Services in Mt. Pleasant. According to Detroit AIA, other winners include McIntosh Poris Associates, Birmingham, for the Lofts at 400 Parent Avenue in Royal Oak; Allied Works Architecture and Integrated Design Solutions, Troy for the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor; Hamilton Anderson Associates, Detroit, for the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Gateway Master Plan in Trenton; Luckenbach/Ziegelman Architects, Birmingham and Ann Arbor, for the Thal Residence in Birmingham; and Gensler, Detroit for Team Detroit in Dearborn. The following is a brief summary of each project.
Bagley Avenue Pedestrian Bridge, Detroit Category: Unbuilt Architect: inFORM Studio Owner: MDOT Contractor: Walter Toebe Construction Co., Wixom
Traverwood Library, Ann Arbor Category: Sustainable Architecture Architect: inFORM Studio Owner: Ann Arbor District Library Contractor: O’Neal Construction, Ann Arbor
EnovateIT, Ferndale Category: Interior Architecture Architect: inFORM Studio Owner: Fred Calero Contractor: Sterling Contracting, Farmington Hills
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