Project Innovations Awards 2009: Welcome the Winners
This year’s program judged buildings in four categories:
- Green Facilities
- Interior Design
- Modernization
- New Construction
Across these categories, the 2009 project entries included examples of office, retail, higher education, healthcare, public, and hospitality buildings.
The judges for the 2009 program were:
| Michael D. Delev General Manager Hines Charlotte, NC |
Julianne F. Laue Mechanical Engineer, Senior Associate DLR Group Minneapolis |
Andrew J. McGonigle Project Manager Northwestern University Evanston, IL |
Stephanie J. Warren Senior Director of Facilities Management Kindred Healthcare Louisville, KY |
The following articles are a showcase of inventive and efficient facilities that include the Grand Prize winners, Citations of Excellence, and Finalists. Product suppliers for each winner appear on a separate listing page.
Grand Prize Winners |
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| Green Facilities | World’s Greenest Office High-Rise This corporate office and trading facility isn’t just world-class – it’s the first tower in the world designed and built with LEED Platinum in mind |
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| One Bryant Park, New York City | ||||
| Interior Design | Restoring a Landmark A historic Chicago hotel remains the longest continuously operating hotel in North America while restored to its original grandeur |
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| Palmer House, Chicago | ||||
| Modernization | New Blood The adaptive reuse of an abandoned warehouse reinvigorates a transfusion center |
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| New York Blood Center, New York City | ||||
| New Construction | Towering Accomplishment Silicon Valley’s largest green project offers high-class amenities |
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| Jay Paul Moffett Towers, Sunnyvale, CA | ||||
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Citations of Excellence |
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| Modernization | Chiller Upgrade
Yields Cool Savings With failing and inefficient cooling towers, and historical operating practices, this hotel engineered, specified, and selected three new cooling towers |
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| Orlando World Center Marriott | ||||
| Green Facilities | St. Louis Conversion
Captures LEED Gold The Power House meets Cannon Design’s desire for a new way of working |
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| Power House, St. Louis | ||||
| New Construction | Expanding Housing Options
in an Emerging Area Modern architectural details establish Moana Pacific as a dominant structure in Honolulu’s up-and-coming Kakaako Special Design District |
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| Moana Pacific, Honolulu | ||||
| Modernization | Good Aesthetics
Make Good Neighbors The Harlem River Bridge Shop Facility incorporates two buildings – an additional shop and administration office space to house growing shop needs |
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| Harlem River Bridge Shop Facility, New York City | ||||
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Finalists |
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| Green Facilities | The Heart of Collaborative Care A new cardiovascular center provides a healing environment for patients |
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| Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital | ||||
| Modernization | Restoration & Consolidation The U.S. Food & Drug Administration completed Building 1 as part of one of the biggest government construction projects currently underway in the country |
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| FDA Building 1, Silver Spring, MD | ||||
| Interior Design | A Tropical Paradise The modernized Gansevoort South Hotel in Miami Beach uses its tropical location as inspiration for its design |
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| Gansevoort South Hotel, Miami Beach | ||||
| Green Facilities | Merging Past and Present HON’s intensive headquarters renovation reveals the building’s striking heritage |
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| The HON Company, Muscatine, IA | ||||
| New Construction | A Research Edge A medical college creates a sharp centerpiece for its expanding research campus |
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| Price Center for Genetic and Translational Medicine, New York City | ||||
| Interior Design | Classrooms of the Future PSU Dickinson School of Law’s technologically advanced classrooms set a precedent within law schools for the use of technology in teaching classes |
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| PSU Dickinson School of Law, State College, PA | ||||
| New Construction | A Welcome Addition Facilities combine the contemporary needs of a medical facility and youth staff members with the mystique of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains |
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| Health Lodge and Silver Sage Staff Activity Center, Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, NM | ||||
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