Toronto, Ontario Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects Award of Excellence This year’s awards recognize an exceptional amount of first-rate architecture rising in Toronto. Of the many contributions to the city’s cultural fabric, the intimate, low-budget Young Centre for the Performing Arts stands out. Photo: © Tom Arban Slide show captions: Henry Ng The project’s two clients, Soulpepper Theatre Company and the George Brown College Theatre School, partnered to consolidate and improve their facilities, which had been less than adequate. Working with Toronto-based Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB), the partnership created a unique collaborative space, which raised the college’s public

Project Specs Young Centre for the Performing Arts Toronto, Ontario Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects << Return to article the People Architect Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects 322 King Street West Toronto, Ontario M5V 1J2 416-977-5104 (TEL) 416-598-9804 (FAX) Tom Payne Partner Chris Couse Senior Associate Mark Jaffar Project Architect Project Team: Goran Milosevic Ann Lok Ramon Janer Thom Seto Krista Clark Steven Kopp Carolyn Lee Architect of record Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects Engineer(s): Structural: Read Jones Christofferson Ltd Electrical/Mechanical: Crossey Engineering Inc Consultant(s) Acoustical: Aerocoustics Engineering Inc John O’Keefe, Tom Neudorfl Other: Heritage: ERA Architects Inc Michael McClelland,

Suitland, Maryland Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Award of Excellence With the U.S. Census Bureau having outgrown its aging 1942-vintage home in Suitland, Maryland, the General Services Administration commissioned Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) to design a new, 2.5-million-square-foot headquarters on an adjacent, 80-acre wooded site [record, March 2007, page 130]. A series of accessible green roofs and gardens unfold from the center of the site out to the adjacent woodland preserve, integrating the expansive, low-rise structure into its wooded site. Photo: © Eduard Hueber / Arch Photo Slide show captions: Henry Ng An iconic sunshade fronting the woodland side of

London, UK HOK Citation for Excellence SJ Berwin is a large, growing law firm with its headquarters in London and nine offices throughout Europe. After 25 years in business, the company outgrew its London offices. Providing legal services to entrepreneurial companies and financial institutions, the firm wanted to portray a sophistication to match that of its clients. The similarly large and international architectural firm HOK International understood SJ Berwin’s vision and designed an office complex that resembles less the mahogany-lined, hierarchical model of a law office than it does the hip, luxurious aesthetic of a boutique hotel. Photo: © Peter

San Diego, California Antoine Predock Architect PC Citation for Excellence Home to the San Diego Padres since April 2004, Petco Park has as its mission to be more than a ballpark—to serve as a large-scale city planning project. For the first time in professional sports, a franchise was required to invest hundreds of millions in at-risk capital for the development of the neighborhood surrounding its publicly owned facility. Photo: © Timothy Hursley Slide show captions: Henry Ng Near the Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego, the Ballpark District occupies land that had been mostly vacant when the Padres project received

Pensacola, Florida ASD Inc. Award of Excellence The Navy Federal Credit Union’s (NFCU) new call center in Pensacola, Florida, is the greenest building on the winners list this year. The 62,000-square-foot structure at Heritage Oaks Commerce Park is only the second LEED Gold–certified building in the state. Architecture, interiors, and graphic design firm ASD provided comprehensive design services to kick-start what the world’s largest credit union has come to call “the Pensacola Project.” Photo: © Maguire Photographic Slide show captions: Henry Ng The first in a future four-office-building complex, ASD’s building includes fitness facilities with personal trainers, a health clinic,

Project Specs Navy Federal Credit Union Pensacola, Florida ASD Inc. << Return to article the People Architect   the Products Structural system:

Project Specs San Diego Padres Ballpark/Petco Park San Diego, California Antoine Predock Architect PC << Return to article the People Architect Antoine Predock Architect PC 300 12th Street NW Albuquerque, NM 87102 505-843-7390 tel. 505-243-6254 fax predock.com Principal: Antoine Predock, FAIA Project team: Graham Hogan, Hadrian Predock, Geoffrey Beebe, Devendra Contractor, Doug Friend Architect of record HOK Sports Facilities Group 323 W. 8th Street, Ste. 700 Kansas City, MO 64105 816-221-1500 tel. hoksve.com Principal: Joseph E Spear, AIA Associate architect(s) HOK Sports Facilities Group Engineer(s) Structural: Thornton-Tomasetti 641 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10011 212-924-9400 tel. thettgroup.com Mechanical/electrical:

Project Specs SJ Berwin Law Offices London, UK HOK << Return to article the People Interior Designer: HOK International 216 Oxford Street London, W1C 1DB Tel: 0044 (0)207 636 2006 Fax: 0044 (0)207 636 1987 Andy Warner Lacey, Simon Bone, Alex Redgrave, Tim Hatton, Mark Owen, Simon French, Julian Delannoy and Seth Stein of Seth Stein Architects. Base Build Refurbishment Architect: John Robertson Architects Engineer(s): Troup Bywater & Anders – John Gallen, Neil Weller Consultant(s) Landscape: HOK International Lighting: Minds Eye Acoustical: Hann Tucker Other: Catering - Tricon General contractor: Overbury Photographer(s) Peter Cook Nick Gutteridge Renderer(s): James Mann CAD