LWA Community Projects

ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN

University of Connecticut, Oak Hall

CONTENTS 1. Firm Introduction

2. Community Projects John W. Olver Design Building University of Arkansas Stadium Drive Residence Halls Oak & Laurel Halls Museum of Medical History and Innovation Wentworth Multi-Purpose Academic Building Sophia Gordon Center for Creative & Performing Arts Richard & Nancy Donahue Family Academic Arts Center Farkas Hall, New College Theater West End House Boys & Girls Club Blue Hill Avenue Youth Development Center Olin Fitness Center

3. Honors & Awards

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1 / FIRM INTRODUCTION Established in 1982, Boston-based Leers Weinzapfel Associates is a practice recognized for its exceptional quality of design for the public realm in complex urban and campus contexts.

From the beginning, our work has been intentionally public in nature and attitude. We are committed to providing meaningful spaces for human interaction and to promoting social wellbeing. Our goal is to create bold and refined architecture for the educational realm. Work of the firm encompasses a diversity of project types, from technically demanding infrastructure installations and advanced learning and living environments for educational institutions, to prominent civic buildings and economical community recreation centers. Underlying each design concept is a clear commitment to the wise use of resources and a sustainable future. Leers Weinzapfel is an adopter of the AIA 2030 Commitment that evaluates the impact design decisions have on a project’s energy performance with the goal to reach net zero design by 2030.

In 2007, the American Institute of Architects honored us with the Firm Award, the highest distinction the AIA bestows on an architecture practice, the first woman-owned firm to be so honored. In 2015, 2016, 2017 ARCHITECT Magazine included the firm on its list of Top 50 architecture firms in the country.

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2 / COMMUNITY PROJECTS John W. Olver Design Building University of Arkansas Stadium Drive Residence Halls Oak & Laurel Halls Museum of Medical History and Innovation Wentworth Multi-Purpose Academic Building Sophia Gordon Center for Creative & Performing Arts Richard & Nancy Donahue Family Academic Arts Center Farkas Hall, New College Theater West End House Boys & Girls Club Blue Hill Avenue Youth Development Center Olin Fitness Center

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UMASS AMHERST JOHN W. OLVER DESIGN BUILDING Amherst, MA

Bringing together the previously dispersed departments of Landscape Architecture, Architecture and Building Construction Technology programs, the Design Building, is a dynamic space of exchange, collaboration, and experiment, celebrating a shared commitment to sustainability.

To create a center space of collaboration, studios, faculty offices and classrooms surround a skylit Commons for gathering and presentations.

The building also forms a green roof terrace, shared by the studios and faculty and an experimental space for the landscape department. The slope of the site creates a tall four-story façade on the west facing the mall, and the rising structure invites the community into the building and reveals the activities within. The east side of the building faces a series of smaller historic buildings along Stockbridge Way, and its three story façade fits comfortably into this context.

A highly innovative engineered timber structure makes this an example for the sustainable use of wood and builds on the leading edge research of the Building Construction Technology program. The building is also a highly visible demonstration of sustainable design practice. It’s the first and largest cross laminated timber (CLT) academic building in the US. The envelope is highly-efficient, with dedicated mechanical equipments zoned for maximum efficiency, with radiant flooring and chilled beams for energy savings. Calculated expanse of glazing and skylights provide maximum daylight to the building’s interior to significantly reduce artificial lighting energy. Storm water management concept directs roof runoff via sculptural scupper to a “spring source” at the top of the site and filters the water via series of successive bio-swales and timber dams to the lower end of the site and eventually back to the Connecticut River. Targeted for LEED Platinum Certification.

PROJECT TYPE / New Construction SIZE / 52,000 net program area 87,000 gsf PROJECT COMPLETION / 1/2017

AWARDS / World-Architects, Building of the Year 2/2018 Boston Society of Architects, Honor Award 2017 World Architecture News, Wood Award Finalist 2017 PUBLICATIONS / Wall Street Journal – Best of Architecture 2017, 12/2017 Design New England, 12/5/17 World-Architects, Building of the week, 5/22/2017 e-architect, 5/2017 The Boston Globe, 4/27/2017 Snap, 4/2017 Building Design + Construction, 4/ 2017 MassLive, 4/ 2017 Architect, 3/2017 Architect Magazine, 5/2016 Architects Newspaper, 5/2016 New England Real Estate Journal, 5/2015 LEERS WEINZAPFEL ASSOCIATES

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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS STADIUM DRIVE RESIDENCE HALLS Fayetteville, AR

As a new campus gateway, the Stadium Drive Residence halls will create a new Residential College with emphasis on a creative Live-Learn environment within a relaxed, informal, tree-lined landscape that re-conceptualizes University Housing.

Located at the southern edge of the campus, the Stadium Drive Residence Halls will create a vibrant new destination with retail dining, classrooms, maker-spaces, performance spaces, communal spaces, administrative offices, and faculty housing, along with a mix of semi-suites and pods totaling 700 beds, intended primarily for sophomore students.

A series of interconnected buildings arranged in a sinuous, serpentine configuration, set within a forested landscape, provide variety of communal outdoor spaces that offer a sustainable way of re-imagining campus housing in contrast to the traditional housing on the campus quad. Other important sustainability initiatives include a significant reduction of the project’s carbon footprint, by incorporating Advanced Timber Technologies, utilizing Cross Laminated Timber Panels and glulam beams and columns for the building’s structure.

In addition, the project aspires to be Net-Zero Energy with inclusion of renewable energies, high performance envelope and mechanical systems, as well as basic building design which incorporates principles of proper solar orientation and fenestration.

The project is part of a larger precinct Master Plan, also envisioned by Leers Weinzapfel, looking at this entire southeastern boundary of the campus as a potential site for future housing, parking, and network of pedestrian campus pathways to accommodate future growth of the University.

PROJECT TYPE / New Construction STATUS / Programming SIZE / 200,000SF

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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT OAK & LAUREL HALLS Storrs, CT

Located at the center of campus, two new classroom and research office buildings frame the nexus of student interchange where two primary pedestrian paths cross. The new buildings provide a home for five social sciences and humanities departments, and house a total of 40 new high technology classroom facilities at the heart of campus.

The compact Laurel Hall (68,000 gsf) contains two large lecture halls in a low copper faced volume along Fairfield Way as well as smaller classrooms located in a three-story brick volume facing the Main Quadrangle adjacent to the Student Union. A green roof covers the lower volume containing the large lecture halls.

Diagonally across Fairfield Way, Oak Hall accommodates all of the departments’ faculty on the upper three floors, with a large lecture hall and classrooms occupying the ground level. Two L-shaped brick volumes, joined by a connector on the upper three departmental floors maximize perimeter office space and create two copper lined interconnected courtyards.

Together, the two new social sciences and classroom buildings resonate with each other in form and material, bringing the vitality of intensively used learning space to the center of campus.

The University and Architect have worked closely to develop environmentally responsible principles to guide the design of the buildings and landscapes. Bioswales, permeable paving, and drought tolerant plant materials reflect the special emphasis on water management and conservation.

Laurel Hall - LEED Gold Oak Hall - LEED Gold

PROJECT TYPE / New Construction STATUS / Completed 2011 & 2012 SIZE / Laurel Hall - 68,000 sf Oak Hall - 132,000 sf

AWARDS / AIA Connecticut / Honor Award Boston Society of Architects / Education Honor Award Boston Society of Landscape Architects / Merit Award Connecticut GBC / Honor Award Connecticut GBC / Alexion Award The Chicago Athanaeum / American Architecture Award

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MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL MUSEUM OF MEDICAL HISTORY & INNOVATION Boston, MA

Providing a welcoming and highly visible front door to the MGH downtown Boston campus, the new Museum of Medical History and Innovation showcases a 200-year history of medical innovation and the hospital’s place in the community.

Although the hospital campus occupies more than 15 acres in the city, it previously had no “address” on a principal street. Built on a tiny sliver site, the building’s gleaming copper and glass façade spans a city block, identifying the main entrance to the hospital with a large presence.

A series of spaces, each with its own identity, are stacked to make a tall threestory volume in its highly visible location. A double height entry lobby gives a generous and welcoming scale to the building, and its monumental stair joins first and second floors. The fully glazed ground floor exhibition space draw visitors in and engages the building with the public and the neighborhood. The first floor exhibition area is highly flexible, with an open-grid ceiling that provides adjustable lighting, power and data with fire suppression and supply air above the grid. The floor contains power and data boxes in a regular pattern to allow a changing arrangement of exhibits.

The second floor houses a flexible meeting, assembly, and reception space for hospital seminars and events overlooking the entry and gallery below. A gridded ceiling and floor boxes lend flexibility to the second floor conference and exhibition space while English sycamore wall paneling provides a gracious environment for conferences. An oriel window offers glimpses of the activity of street and sidewalk and can also house aspects of changing exhibits as needed. The pergola covered roof garden provides a contemplative space for the Hospital, patients, visitors and neighbors, and dramatic views over downtown Boston and Beacon Hill.

PROJECT TYPE / New Construction STATUS / Completed 2012 SIZE / 8,000 sf

AWARDS / Boston Preservation Alliance / Preservation Achievement Award for Construction in Harmony with Boston’s Built Environment AIA New England Honor Award PUBLICATIONS / Architectural Record Healthcare Design Contract Magazine Taiwan Architect Boston Globe BBC News World Architecture News

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“This is a tiny building. It’s almost like a shiny badge pinned on the big, mostly gray MGH complex. But in the hands of inventive architects, it succeeds in its goal of grabbing your attention, inciting your curiosity, and inviting you to learn more about MGH. The copper makes Russell feel special, as if it’s been gift-wrapped.

There must, you feel, be something precious inside.”

- Robert Campbell, The Boston Globe

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WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MULTIPURPOSE ACADEMIC BUILDING Boston, MA

The Wentworth Multi-purpose Engineering Building will be a multi-disciplinary engineering facility housing laboratories and offices for Biology, Bio-Engineering, Civil Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. The First Floor will contain space for the Mechanical Engineering interdisciplinary project-based programs and will include High-End Manufacturing, Maker-Space and Public Assembly areas.

It will connect campus and city, and foster exchange, collaboration, and experimentation.

The Project is designed to meet the next evolution in the collegiate study of several engineering disciplines by providing modern academic space for Wentworth’s existing student body and to enhance the campus experience in a new “state-of-the-art” building.

At 4 stories in height with approximately 75,000 gross square feet, the building will accommodate Wentworth’s transition from providing engineering technology programs to engineering and innovation programs, such as a new bioengineering program.

This transition requires new and different teaching and learning spaces and configurations that will promote more collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches to the curriculum.

The building is intended to be a visible demonstration of sustainable design and will incorporate enhanced metering for both University use and student demonstration. The building will exceed the City of Boston’s requirements of sustainability with a highly-efficient thermal envelope, and mechanical equipment designed for maximum efficiency including low-flow fume hoods. The building is designed to be LEED Silver Certifiable under LEED v.4.

PROJECT TYPE / New Construction SIZE / 75,000 gsf PROJECT COMPLETION / January 2019

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SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY SOPHIA GORDON PERFORMING ARTS COMPLEX Salem, MA

The renovation of the Sophia Gordon Creative & Performing Arts Center transforms a mid-century theater facility into vibrant theatrical teaching, performance, and support spaces for a new generation of students.

Originally constructed in 1958 as a general use auditorium on a developing campus, the 650-seat Mainstage Theater building was ripe for reimagining, no longer meeting the current needs of the theater department and the wider university.

The design for the project reflects Salem State’s departmental goals and maximizes the program space within the existing building shell by providing a balcony and a more intimate theater. The public approaches a transformed exterior terrace and enters a generous lobby, which leads to a 490-seat theater with a balcony and galleries. The theater affords good sightlines and ceiling height, providing an enveloping space for student performance and instruction. The program also includes a large rehearsal room, green room, dressing rooms, scene shop, sound lab, light lab, prop storage, conference spaces, and an art display area.

The project creates a cohesive, engaging, and transparent learning environment for the university’s theater department; provides a specialized space for performing arts and community connection; enhances opportunities for a richer array of academic and cultural events; creates a new and uplifting face and experience for the Salem State community, potential students and visitors; connects to the evolving campus quadrangle; and increases the visibility of the theater department and its productions.

The renovation of the existing building is, by itself, a sustainable act that not only breathes life back into the structure but also increases the vitality of the immediate neighborhood. This renewal project will achieve LEED Silver Certification from the United States Green Building Council. Additionally, the project is required to comply with MA Executive Order 484, providing 20% better than code energy performance.

PROJECT TYPE / Renovation STATUS / Completed 1/2017

PUBLICATIONS / Building Design & Const. Magazine, 7/2017 e-Architect 9/2017

SIZE / 32,000 gsf renovation

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MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE ACADEMIC ARTS CENTER Lowell, MA

A new Academic Arts Center for student use re-imagines an historic train depot as a vibrant piece of the city, restoring the old structure and celebrating the new.

The Academic Arts Center brings a new level of lighting and AV integration to the departments of theater, dance and music. The new building is integrated with the College’s curriculum and provides students the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art equipment, controls and software typically reserved for the most advanced performing arts centers.

The three performance spaces have tailored, expandable and integrated audio/ video and lighting technologies, as much teaching tools as building equipment.

The dance studio uses sophisticated lighting controls, custom touchscreen interface and individually addressable color changing light fixtures.

The recital hall, a space designed around optimal acoustics, programs motorized projection equipment, audio/video controls and addressable lighting into scenes to make technology visible at the touch of a button. The theater extends the integration of sound and light control to house lighting and video. An array of individually addressable color changing light nodes with video mapping capability transform the house lighting into a cutting edge theatrical lighting element.

Beyond the performance spaces, the building is a canvas. The lobby incorporates networked LED signage panels capable of acting as informational kiosks or displaying student generated content. The maple clad “egg” and building towers are lighted by color changing wall-washing light running scenes that change based on the time of day or events within the building. While easily managed by the building manager, each lighting system, audio system and video system is open to student study and experimentation.

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PROJECT TYPE / Renovation & Addition STATUS / Est. Completion 6/2018 SIZE / 20,000 sf

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY FARKAS HALL RENOVATION & EXPANSION Cambridge, MA

A new student theatre complex for undergraduate performances transforms the former Hasty Pudding Club.

The new performing arts center is home to the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, many singing groups including the Harvard Crocodillos and the Radcliffe Pitches, as well as campus wide dramatic and music groups.

The original front of the 1887 brick structure was restored for multi-purpose use, while the rear two-thirds of the building was demolished to create the new theatre, black box/rehearsal, and support spaces. The 272-seat theatre is entered from the lobby level and steps down a full floor to the stage. Glimpsed from the street through the alley, the transparent lobby zone of the new building invites passersby into an intriguing modern theatre beyond the historic facade.

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The auditorium is entered from the lobby level and steps down a full floor to the stage. The south porch of the original building together with the adjacent alley has become the new accessible public theater entry. Glimpsed from the street, the transparent lobby zone of the new building beckons passersby. The remaining two facades are within feet of the property line and are not visible. Principal exterior materials include vertical random-length zinc siding, red-slate clear and fritted curtain wall-glazing with a structure of Sherry wall below-grade and steel frame above-grade Tucked behind the historic front of the former Hasty Pudding Club, and limited in height by the local zoning and the immediate context, the new zinc-clad facility completely fills its site from lot line to lot line and is buried three stories into the ground, with three stories above ground. A former alley is transformed into an inviting accessible pathway to the new lobby.

PROJECT TYPE / Renovation & Addition STATUS / Completed 2007 SIZE / 35,000 sf

AWARDS / Boston Society of Architects / Merit Award Cambridge Historical Commission / Preservation Assoc. General Contractors / Aon Build America Award Building Design and Construction Magazine / Reconstruction Award, Gold Level PUBLICATIONS / Harvard Magazine, 1/2008 Boston Sunday Globe, 10/14/2007 Building Design & Const. Magazine, Awards Issue, 10/2007 Harvard Arts Spectrum, Fall 2007 Auditoria, 10/2005 Architectural Record, 3/2003

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“The good news is that the restoration of the old building is deeply respectful and superbly detailed.

Even Charles Sullivan, the hard-to-please director of the Cambridge Historical Commission, which had jurisdiction, says ‘It’s a really good restoration.’ The better news is the new theater itself. Somehow, the architects have shoehorned a 272-seat contemporary theater with all the trimmings into a space that used to be filled by a ratty rear wing that wouldn’t come close to passing a fire inspection today.”

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WEST END HOUSE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB Allston, MA

Located in a residential neighborhood bordered by a city park, the West End House Boys and Girls Club provides a safe and fun space for Boston’s youth.

Built in 1970 we first renovated and expanded the space in 2002. We reconfigured the activity space and entry vestibule, updated the facade, and added 6,000 s.f. overlooking the park.

The new spaces are specific to the needs of the expanded arts program; dance studio, arts room, photo laboratory; the expanded educational program; computer room, library, study area; and after school program: teen lounge, quiet room, and kitchen. In addition locker rooms, the lounge, kitchen, sauna, and steam bath have been reconfigured for adult members.

A new facade with larger windows allow natural light into the heart of the building. Through the use of form and color, the new entry vestibule is a strong and inviting presence on the street. Existing walls open to light at specific locations. New windows in the pool area create a visual link between the lobby and the pool. A new glass channel wall at the pool and new stair allow for a wonderful diffuse light quality, and the creation of a light filled double height upper lobby space and a new sky-lit stair link the renovated space with the addition.

The 2018 expansion adds a new flexible performance space that opens out to a newly landscaped outdoor area with space for performances and events.

PROJECT TYPE / Adaptive Reuse STATUS / Completed 2018 SIZE / 27,000 sf

AWARDS / Harleston Parker Medal, City of Boston and the Boston Society of Architects, 1996 Boston Society of Architects Honor Award, 1995 American Institute of Architects New England, 1996

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BLUE HILL AVENUE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER Boston, MA

The Youth Development Center provides a new, safe, and welcoming environment for young people in a densely populated and multi-racial urban neighborhood.

The recreation, social and educational community center was created through the renovation of an existing hockey rink and includes a new gymnasium, lockers, teen lounge, games rooms, library, art room, multi-purpose room, sound performance room, teaching kitchen, play space, refurbished outdoor pool, and outdoor play space.

The new center is designed to be highly safe, durable, welcoming and lively, establishing a prominent public presence in the area and creating a proud new community landmark.

The reuse of an existing structure and enclosure constitutes an a fundamentally sustainable design endeavor - an environmentally beneficial approach appreciated by the community. Executed with an economy of means on a limited budget, the center is an active and positive neighborhood presence.

PROJECT TYPE / Adaptive Reuse STATUS / Completed 1995 SIZE / 27,000 sf

AWARDS / Harleston Parker Medal, City of Boston and the Boston Society of Architects, 1996 Boston Society of Architects Honor Award, 1995 American Institute of Architects New England, 1996

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SMITH COLLEGE OLIN FITNESS CENTER Northampton, MA

The Olin Fitness Center at Smith College is a highly visible and inviting fitness center for the entire campus.

The 7,000 sf of open, flowing workout space is encased by glass curtain walls and steel, opens to two levels below. The main fitness level is at the main campus entry elevation connecting the first floor of Scott Gymnasium and the third floor of Ainsworth Gymnasium. The level below is a mezzanine for student lounge, and spectator access to the Ainsworth swimming pool. The lowest level contains a lower campus entry, offices, and additional multi-use spaces in the former Scott pool structure. A continuous skylight above the main workout floor floods the three-levels with light, unifying them and providing orientation and focus for the complex space. Within the new structure a combination of stair, ramp, and bridge linking to the existing elevator make the entire complex easily accessible.

The site available was in the vicinity of two existing athletic buildings- Scott Gymnasium built in 1920 and Ainsworth Gymnasium built in 1970- on steeply sloping land at the edge of the campus. The new fitness center is conceived as a transparent connector spanning between the two buildings.

PROJECT TYPE / New Construction STATUS / Completed 2004 SIZE / 29,430 sf

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CAMPUS CONDORCET NEW URBAN CAMPUS Paris, France

This new academic campus on the periphery of Paris will unite several graduate schools for research in the social sciences. Occupying a five block former industrial site, the concept for this linear campus is a continuous greenway of paths, gardens, and courtyards joining academic, administrative, social, and housing structures. The campus is the vision of an international team of architects and landscape designers coordinated by a major developer/builder.

Leers Weinzapfel Associates is developing the northernmost block of the campus. A research building for nearly 1000 researchers at the northwest corner marks the edge where the city and university meet. The L-shaped research building announces the campus identity, and opens at the northwest corner to create a welcoming portal. Within the campus, this first phase research building will begin to form an academic quadrangle surrounding an oval lawn. The second phase building, marked initially by a grassy berm, will complete the quadrangle. The research building is immediately adjacent to the social heart of the campus- the campus dining building and student center- with clear visibility and proximity to the main library. It will house approximately half of the campus research units in the initial phase and as such will be a vibrant center of intellectual activity.

The southern part of the block is the magnet for the social life of the campus.

Combining the campus dining and student activity center in a single Campus Life Center significantly enhances the potential for shared activities throughout the day and evening. Facing the library to the south, the new Campus Life Center is its social counterpart, drawing together all members of the campus community. The building is conceived as an extension of the landscape, with the opportunity for terraces at multiple levels adjacent to dining and activity spaces. Each terrace level reveals new views of the library, the campus, and city. From the library, the building appears to blend seamlessly into the landscape.

On the remaining portion of the block, graduate student housing will strengthen the identity of the campus as an integrated living and learning environment.

PROJECT TYPE / Planning / New Construction STATUS / Design Competition SIZE / Block 1, Phase 1 structures: 250,000 sf

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3. HONORS & AWARDS

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Selected & Recent Design Awards AIA Architecture Firm Award | 2007 Leers Weinzapfel Associates

American Institute of Architects | Jury-based selection The AIA Architecture Firm Award, given annually, is the highest honor the AIA bestows on an architecture firm and recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years.

Architect Top 50 Design

Leers Weinzapfel Associates | 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 Architect Magazine | Jury-based selection Architect Magazine’s annual ranking of the top 50 design firms in the U.S.

Architect Top 50 Sustainability

Leers Weinzapfel Associates | 2014, 2015 & 2017 Architect Magazine | Jury-based selection Architect Magazine’s annual ranking of the top 50 sustainable design firms in the U.S.

The Wall Street Journal Best Architecture of 2017 UMass Amherst John W. Olver Design Building | 2017

World Architects Building of the Year 2017

UMass Amherst John W. Olver Design Building | 2017 UMass Amherst John W. Olver Design Building

World-Architects.com | People’s Choice selection

Boston Society of Architects Award of Honor

Jane Weinzapfel | 2009 + Andrea P. Leers | 2009 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

Awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to architecture and the profession.

AIA Honor Award University of Pennsylvania Gateway Building

University of Pennsylvania Gateway Building | 2001 American Institute of Architects | Jury-based selection

AIA Honor Award for Interiors

MIT School of Architecture & Planning | 1998 American Institute of Architects | Jury-based selection

American Architecture Award

The Ohio State University East Regional Chilled Water Plant | 2015 The Ohio State East Regional Chilled Water Plant

The Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design & The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies | 2016 exhibit in Athens, Greece | Jury-based selection Honors the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important American architects.

American Architecture Award

Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Mass General Hospital | 2014 The Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design & The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies | 2015 exhibit in Istanbul, Turkey | Jury-based selection MGH Museum of Medical History & Innovation

American Architecture Award

University of Connecticut, Oak & Laurel Halls | 2012 The Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design & The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies | 2013 exhibit in Istanbul, Turkey | Jury-based selection

American Architecture Award

Harvard University Library Services Building | 2009 Harvard University Library Services Building

The Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design & The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies | Jury-based selection

American Architecture Award

United State Federal Courthouse, Orlando, Fl | 2008 The Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design & The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies | Jury-based selection

American Architecture Award

Harvard University Science Center Expansion | 2006 The Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design & The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies | Jury-based selection

American Architecture Award

University of Pennsylvania Gateway Building | 2001 The Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design & The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies | Jury-based selection United State Federal Courthouse, Orlando, Fl

American Architecture Award

Mugar Center for the Performing Arts, Cambridge School of Weston | 2001 The Chicago Athanaeum Museum of Architecture and Design & The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies | Jury-based selection

International Design Award, Institutional Category Harvard University Science Center Expansion | 2007 International Design Awards | Jury-based selection Recognizes, celebrates and promotes legendary design visionaries to uncover emerging talent in Architecture, Interior, Product, Graphic, and Fashion Design. IDA aspires to draw attention to the iconoclasm of design world wide, conceptualizing and producing great work.

International Association of Lighting Designers Award University of Pennsylvania Gateway Building | 2001 Harvard University Science Center Expansion

International Association of Lighting Designers | Jury-based selection Longest running award program recognizing architectural lighting design excellence.

Receiving an IALD award is universally heralded as the top honor in the lighting design industry.

Business Week/Architectural Record Award

University of Pennsylvania Gateway Building | 2001 Business Week Magazine & Architectural Record | Jury-based selection Honor architects and clients who recognize the value of good design.... exemplary projects that put business goals first.

Mugar Center for the Performing Arts, Cambridge School of Weston

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Business Week/Architectural Record Award MIT School of Architecture & Planning | 1999

Business Week Magazine & Architectural Record | Jury-based selection Honor architects and clients who recognize the value of good design.... exemplary projects that put business goals first.

AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice Knowledge, Justice Facilities Review Award Dudley Square Neighborhood Police Station | 2014 AIA Academy for Justice | Jury-based selection

Taunton Trial Court

AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice Knowledge, Justice Facilities Review Award Taunton Trial Court | 2012

AIA Academy for Justice | Jury-based selection

AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice Knowledge, Community Justice Facilities Review Award United State Federal Courthouse, Orlando, Fl | 2008 AIA Academy for Justice | Jury-based selection

AIA Committee on Architecture for Education Facilities, Design Award of Merit Dudley Square Neighborhood Police Station

The Ohio State University World Media and Culture Center | 2007 American Institute of Architects | Jury-based selection

AIA New England Honor Award

Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Mass General Hospital | 2013 American Institute of Architects, New England | Jury-based selection

AIA New England Honor Award

Harvard University Science Center Expansion, | 2004 American Institute of Architects, New England | Jury-based selection University of Connecticut Classroom & Social Sciences Building - Laurel Hall

AIA New England Design Citation

Dudley Square Neighborhood Police Station | 2012 American Institute of Architects, New England | Jury-based selection

AIA Connecticut Honor Award

University of Connecticut, Oak & Laurel Halls | 2013 American Institute of Architects Connecticut | Jury-based selection

AIA Florida, Top 100 Buildings

United State Federal Courthouse, Orlando, Fl | 2012 American Institute of Architects, Florida | Jury-based selection United State Federal Courthouse, Orlando, Fl

AIA Orlando Award of Excellence

United State Federal Courthouse, Orlando, Fl | 2008 American Institute of Architects, Orlando | Jury-based selection

AIA New York Design Award, Sustainable Design Harvard University Library Services Building | 2008 AIA New York | Jury-based selection

AIA New England Merit Award

Harvard University Library Services Building | 2007 AIA New England | Jury-based selection

Harleston Parker Medal MIT Media Lab

MIT Media Lab | 2013

Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection Annual honor seeks to recognize “the single most beautiful building or other structure” built in the metropolitan Boston area in the past 10 years.

Harleston Parker Medal

Blue Hill Ave Youth Development Center | 1996 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection Annual honor seeks to recognize “the single most beautiful building or other structure” built in the metropolitan Boston area in the past 10 years.

BSA Honor Award The Ohio State East Regional Chilled Water Plant

UMass Amherst John W. Olver Design Building | 2017 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

BSA Honor Award

The Ohio State University East Regional Chilled Water Plant | 2015 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

BSA Honor Award

Dudley Square Neighborhood Police Station | 2012 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

BSA Honor Award

Taunton Trial Court | 2011 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection University of Cincinnati, University Pavilion

BSA Honor Award

Harvard University Library Services Building | 2008 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

BSA Honor Award

University of Cincinnati University Pavilion | 2007 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

BSA Honor Award

Princeton University Chilled Water Plant Addition | 2006 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

Princeton University Chilled Water Plant Addition

LEERS WEINZAPFEL ASSOCIATES

BSA Honor Award

Mugar Center for the Performing Arts, Cambridge School of Weston | 2003 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

BSA Honor Award

University of Pennsylvania Gateway Building | 2000 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

BSA Education Hobson Award,

University of Connecticut, Oak & Laurel Halls | 2013 University of Connecticut Classroom & Social Sciences Building - Laurel Hall

Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

BSA Merit Award

Harvard University New College Theatre | 2010 Boston Society of Architects | Jury-based selection

Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Merit Award

University of Connecticut, Oak & Laurel Halls | 2013 Boston Society of Landscape Architects | Jury-based selection

CT GBC, Alexion Award of Excellence

University of Connecticut, Laurel Hall | 2012

Connecticut Green Building Council | Jury-based selection

CT GBC, Honor Award, Institutional

University of Connecticut, Oak & Laurel Halls | 2012 Connecticut Green Building Council | Jury-based selection Harvard University New College Theater

National Building Museum, Timber City Exhibit

University of Massachusetts, Design Building| 2016-2017 Exhibit in Washington, D.C | Jury-based selection

Architecture of Necessity Exhibit

UMass Amherst John W. Olver Design Building | 2016 Exhibit in Sweden | Jury-based selection

University of Massachusetts Design Building

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