“We’re honored to receive two American Architecture Awards this year,” said Tony Rohr, National Managing Principal of Gould Evans. “Both projects that are being recognized are emblematic of how we design to create meaningful outcomes for our clients: responding to their specific challenge, and the cultural and physical context they are operating in.”

The Missouri Innovation Campus, design in partnership with DLR Group, is a “campus in a building” and houses the most accelerated degree program in the country. It is designed to support the evolution of traditional education models and better prepare graduates for the workplace environment. Distinctions among spaces for lecture, lab, meeting, work and community are blurred, enabling students to choose the environment that fits their learning style and gain competency-based skills at their own pace.

The Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community Justice Center is a tribal court and practitioners’ building located in the nearly native Sonoran Desert. The tribe’s sovereign land shares its borders with the larger Phoenix metropolis. The facility is designed to uphold the tribe’s unique sense of identity, beauty and humanity, amid this adjacency. The primary building materials–glass, weathered steel and concrete–reflect the desert vernacular. The craft of the concrete and a custom rebar scrim demonstrate the community’s deep care for the handmade and provide a glimpse into distinctive tribal sensibilities toward artistry, significance of place and community.

The American Architecture Awards honor the most significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important American architects, landscape architects, and urban planners practicing nationally and internationally and international architects and designers practicing inside the USA.

Over 100 projects were selected by a distinguished jury of New York architects and educators, including:

• Carlos Zapata, Principal, Carlos Zapata Studio

• Claire Weisz, Principal, WXY

• Soo K. Chan, Principal, SCDA Architects

• Douglas Bothner, Principal, Ziger/Snead Architects

• David Leven, Partner, Levenbetts

• Marc Gee, Principal, Gluck+

• Andrea Lamberti, Partner, Rafael Viñoly Architects

• David Lewis, Principal, LTL Architects

The full list of 2018 winning projects can be viewed here: https://chi-athenaeum.org/the-2018-awards/.

Gould Evans has won American Architecture Awards in past years for the University of Kansas DeBruce Center for the Original Rules of Basketball, Lawrence Public Library and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

About Gould Evans
Gould Evans’ award-winning designs are recognized for their specificity to people and place. Our diverse portfolio of architecture stems from a design process that starts with the client’s goals. We share a passion for regional architecture and design that positively impacts our communities. To learn more, visit www.gouldevans.com.

Gould Evans Media Contact
Megan Krtek
(816)701-5422
megan.krtek@gouldevans.com

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The new clubhouse is designed to reflect and serve its rural Napa County location, where many families work long hours in the region’s wine industry. The design intention was to create a safe place for kids to study and socialize, and a positive center of activity in the community. The single-story building consists of two wings organized around an interior “Gamesroom” with a gymnasium behind it. The high vaulted ceiling and clerestory windows of the Gamesroom makes you feel like you’ve entered into an outdoor courtyard, yet the warmth of the exposed wood structure has the intimacy of a family room. The Gamesroom has physical and visual transparency to a variety of adjacent spaces – including a STEM Lab, Art Lab, Learning Center Kitchen and Dining area – enabling kids to transition seamlessly between homework, recreational activities and snack time. The restrooms and gymnasium can be fully separated from the clubhouse via an overhead rolling door, a creative adjacency which allows the BGC to open the gym to the community after-hours.

“We’re thrilled that this project is the recipient of one of the first San Francisco Design Week Awards, and we’re proud of the positive impact it’s already making in the community,” said Douglas Thornley, Principal with Gould Evans. “It’s been an honor to realize the Boys & Girls Club vision by creating an accessible resource for local youth—regardless of their economic means—that creatively and constructively structures their time after school.”

SFDW Design Awards is an international design competition seeking to encourage thought leadership by supporting designers whose works can contribute towards a positive future for society. The Design Awards celebrates and recognizes exemplary work in all fields of design, including architecture, interior design, industrial design, communication design, and user experience design.

“We are extremely excited to launch the first San Francisco Design Week Design Awards this year,” says SFDW Director Dawn Zidonis. “The quality of the many entries we received was exceptional in terms of how they exceeded our expectations of our theme, ‘Innovation Meets Social Responsibility’. Congratulations to this year’s outstanding and diverse winners.”

Eighteen winning projects were selected by a jury comprised of distinguished professionals, who reviewed submissions from an exceptionally competitive pool of applicants from all over the world, including Italy, China, USA, United Emirates and Japan. The SFDW Design Awards esteemed jury included:

• JD Beltran, designer, artist, filmmaker, writer, educator and public art administrator

• Diane Dorrans Saeks, influencer, author, editor and teacher

• Rob Duncan, partner, Mucho

• Trevor Hubbard, founder, Butchershop

• Barry Katz, CCA, IDEO Fellow, Stanford University,

• Dominique Price, director at M Moser Associates

• August de los Reyes, VP of Product Design, Pinterest

Each winning project displayed the characteristics of impact, singularity, inclusiveness, social responsibility, ease of use, visual appeal and feasibility. The winners’ entries are displayed prominently in a SFDW Design Awards Exhibition at Pier 27, San Francisco, from June 7 - 8, 2018 and featured permanently at  https://2018.sfdesignweek.org/.

San Francisco Design Week (SFDW) is the premier gathering of the world’s most active design community. The week-long community event spans the entire Bay Area from Silicon Valley to the city of San Francisco, featuring world-renowned designers, entrepreneurs and innovative thought leaders with more than 60 studio tours and 200 events. Gould Evans will be hosting a SFDW panel discussion focused on using design to improve learning spaces and the educational experience on June 11th.

About Gould Evans
Gould Evans’ award-winning designs are recognized for their specificity to people and place. Our diverse portfolio of architecture stems from a design process that starts with the client’s goals. We share a passion for regional architecture and design that positively impacts our communities. To learn more, visit www.gouldevans.com.

Gould Evans Media Contact
Megan Krtek
(816)701-5422
megan.krtek@gouldevans.com

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