High-Profile: Awards
January 2014
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AIA RI Honors NCA with Two Awards Newport, RI – AIA Rhode Island, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects, honored Northeast Collaborative Architects (NCA) with design awards for the Micro Lofts at the Arcade, Providence, and the Pawtucket River Bridge. The annual competition celebrates outstanding works of architecture from Rhode Island architects and honors the project teams and clients who work with them. The Micro Lofts at the Arcade earned the 2013 Merit Award in the Historic Preservation category. Micro lofts are innovative housing models that offer
access to urban amenities at affordable prices. The Arcade was built in 1828 in the Greek Revival style and is regarded as the nation’s first enclosed three-story shopping mall. The $7 million adaptive reuse project respects the Arcade’s historic design, but the building is modernized with double-hung windows to bring in more light. The Pawtucket River Bridge earned the highest honor, the 2013 Honor Award for Urban Design. NCA’s design challenge was not to create a linkage over a relatively narrow
Micro Lofts at the Arcade
View of Pawtucket Bridge at Night.
Photo by Carl Vernlund
New England waterway but to convey the series of extraordinary events that for centuries converged at this very spot. From hand-hewn covered bridges to steel and concrete marvels, Rhode Islanders have long expressed pride in bridges and regard them as iconic structures. The project entailed replacing three separate structures with a bridge to carry I-95 Northbound; a bridge to carry I-95 Southbound; and a bridge for the on and
off ramps to George and School streets. The new bridge’s four pillars feature representations of Art Deco wings on the eagles chiseled atop the tower at city hall. Seen from the river, the bridge, made of metalized steel and illuminated at night with colored LED lighting, displays a graceful silvery arch over the Pawtucket River. The project cost $80 million and was completed in 2013.
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