FREELON RECEIVES FIVE 2006 AIA NC Design Awards

Lew Myers
919-941-9790

07/15/2006

The Freelon Group Architects received five AIA (American Institute of Architects) North Carolina Design Awards at the 2006 annual Design Awards Banquet held on July 15 at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

The five-award showing by The Freelon Group is a first for any firm in the 60-year history of the AIA North Carolina Design Awards.

Honor Award
The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
located in San Francisco, CA

Honor Award

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American

History and Culture located in Baltimore, MD (with RTKL, A Joint Venture)

Honor Award
The Biomanufacturing Research Institute &

Technology Enterprise (BRITE) Facility located in Durham, NC

(with O'Brien/Atkins Associates, Architect of Record) - Unbuilt Category

Honor Award

North Carolina Central Region Psychiatric Hospital
located in Butner, NC (in association with Cannon Design) - Unbuilt Category

Merit Award

Architects' Office Upfit: Freelon offices
located in Research Triangle Park, NC

Overall, nineteen projects were selected for awards from a total of 94 entries submitted by architects throughout North Carolina. Each winning project was deemed by a jury of three professionals to have met or exceeded benchmarks of outstanding architectural design, structural composition and application of design theory. The North Carolina Chapter of The AIA is the largest statewide AIA chapter in the country with more than 2,200 members.