2000 Awards

2000 EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

HONOR AWARD WINNERS
CROSS AND PORTE COCHERE - ST. MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH BEDFORD, TEXAS Architect: Jim Bransford Architect Client: Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth Category: General Building Design
	A church requested the addition of a new Cross and Porte Cochere to give fresh identity and sheltered access to its existing facility. The structure forms a covered walkway extending from the present church entrance to a vehicular drop-off area, and serves as a transition between the hectic activity of the surrounding parking lots and the quiet experience of church.
TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILROAD PASSENGER STATION RESTORATION, FORT WORTH, TEXAS Architect: Gideon Toal Client: Fort Worth Transportation Authority Category: Restoration or Adaptive Re-use
	The art deco style Texas and Pacific Railroad Passenger Terminal was built in 1930-1931. The Fort Worth Transportation Authority secured the “Main Waiting Room” and “White Women’s Waiting Room” under a condominium agreement with the building’s owner, to serve as the final station for the Trinity Rail Express, a newly created rail service connecting Dallas and Fort Worth. Realizing the importance of the architecture of the Waiting Room, it was decided to restore the area to its original grandeur.
YOUNG RESIDENCE, BURLESON, TEXAS Architect: Richard Wintersole Architect Client: Michael Young and Gayla Labry Category: Residential Design
	This 950 square foot residence is located on a half acre lot in an established 1970’s suburban neighborhood in Burleson, Texas. The husband and wife requested the following: Keep the design simple and build small to make the house affordable. Raise the house above grade on the gently sloping site to increase the view and provide a deck. Soils test indicated a potential vertical rise of 9 inches. Use a metal frame with steel studs. The design consists of three parts: a stucco clad double volume living room, a wood deck and galvalume clad support spaces. For budget and aesthetic reasons the material palette is simple: wood floors, drywall, plastic laminate counters, sandblasted steel and sealed plywood subflooring.
MERIT AWARD WINNERS
THE ELDER ANNEX RESTORATION, FORT WORTH, TEXAS Architect: Arthur Weinman Architect Client: Fort Worth Independent School District Category: Restoration or Adaptive Re-use
	This historic public high school, designed by Sanguinet and Staats, was dedicated in 1918. The program included site and restoration design of the building for middle school annex reuse. The building had been slated for demolition, preceded by about fifteen years of neglect. When demolition was delayed, it was closed for seven years before the school district committed to its restoration. The restored building has received National Register designation.
VALEO ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS FORT WORTH ASSEMBLY FACILITY, FORT WORTH, TEXAS Architect: Gideon Toal Client: Valeo Electronics Category: General Building Design
	At a Valeo facility, different trades work together to produce automotive electronics products. For each of these trades...communication, organization, production, and monitoring is necessary. From this viewpoint, the usual distinction between “office” and “industrial” buildings does not apply:...architectural and technical coherence of the construction is desired, despite the diversity of the trades involved.
DENTON HIGH SCHOOL CONNECTOR BUILDING, DENTON, TEXAS Architect: VLK Architects Client: Denton Independent School District Category: General Building Design
	This 51,000 s.f. addition was the final and most significant phase of a master planned renovation of the existing high school campus. The project included the addition of classrooms, computer labs, science labs, administrative offices, a 110 seat multipurpose lecture hall, and the construction of a dramatic, two-story, L-shaped connecting building which joins the new academic wing with two previously detached buildings on campus. The addition of this building provides a conditioned, accessible connection between the main campus and the Art and Technology Buildings, solving both operational and security problems. The exterior brick detailing, taking color cues from its neighbors, provided extreme visual interest and a break from the mostly monochromatic existing campus. New, landscaped plazas with seating were created at each end of the Connector Building. These plazas serve as student art display areas as well as gathering places for students and faculty. The 33’ high, two-story, atrium space not only serves as the connection between the various campus buildings, but also provides a new easily recognizable entrance to the campus.
CITATION AWARD WINNERS
BENBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER / YMCA, BENBROOK, TEXAS Architect: Hahnfeld Associates Architects/Planners, Inc. Client: City of Benbrook, Texas Category: General Building Design
	The concept of an “athletic village” was used to plan a new community recreation center for a local suburban community. Located near other outdoor recreation facilities along the major thoroughfare through town, each piece, or athletic activity is delineated as a separate building within the whole. The dynamics of this interplay between different functions creates an energetic building with significant visual impact to passers-by. Likewise, large windows help to display the activities inside.
ORIGINS CULTURAL CENTER, ARLINGTON, TEXAS Architect: Gideon Toal Client: Origins of the Southwest Category: Unbuilt Projects
	The planned center will draw on the collections of the Smithsonian Institution as part of the affiliates program. The exhibits will focus on cultural, historical, and technological subjects. The site situated on the Johnson Creek hike and bike trail which also connects to the Ballpark at Arlington where additional parking and patrons are available. The administration/educational wing and the restaurant are situated to allow after hours use. Circulation to the individual exhibit spaces is through the great hall which faces the wooded creek.
RETREAT CENTER, FORT WORTH, TEXAS Architect: Gideon Toal Client: Metropolitan Fort Worth YMCA Category: General Building Design
	This new building will serve as a retreat center for the Fort Worth Metropolitan YMCA’s Camp Amon Carter. As the camp’s largest facility, it will be among other things a movie house, studio and supplemental cafeteria and will be made available to the public for activities such as conferences, wedding receptions and reunions.
STUDENT AWARD WINNERS
STUDENT HONOR AWARD RUBI Y LA RIERA (RUBI AND THE RIVER) Students: John Stack Ross and Matt Fajkus School: The University of Texas at Arlington Category: Student Projects
	The given conditions of Rubi exist as a small urban fabric containing a dry riverbed that acts as an urban fracture and void. Thus, the requirements are to analyze the impact of the void in relationship to the urban fabric, develop a theoretical argument for a possible urban design solution, and finally, an execution of that proposal. The solution is to develop an architectural system that programs the linear void of the riverbed allowing connections to existing isolated dead zones within the urban fabric. The program chosen is a research facility and school for water science which places a series of holding tanks of potable water, for time monitoring research, within the residual space of the dry riverbed.
STUDENT CITATION AWARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC Student: Lauren J. Phillips School: The University of Texas at Arlington Category: Student Projects
	This project began as an investigation of urban scale and proportion, and of how a private building is to address the public realm of the piazza. The façade, rather than the plan became the principal organizing element, as it took clues from the hierarchical order of the church and other buildings on the piazza to express its program. It resolves the “unconsidered” spaces and provides definition to the piazza.

JURY PANEL

JANE LORENZ LANDRY, FAIA / Landry & Landry Architects and Planners, Dallas
Ms. Landry received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and spent her first six years of practice in the legendary office of O'Neil Ford and Associates in San Antonio. In 1966 she formed Landry and Landry with her husband, Duane Landry, FAIA. Their practice has produced many award-winning residential, liturgical, and educational projects. Named to the AIA College of Fellows in 1988, she has served in various capacities for many organizations including the Dallas Chapter AIA, the Historic Preservation League, the Diocese of Dallas, and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture.

WILLIAM F. STERN, FAIA \ Stern and Bucek Architects, Houston
After receiving his Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, Mr. Stern began his career in the office of Edward L. Barnes, New York. In 1976, upon moving to Houston, he formed his own practice and has since received numerous design awards, and been widely published in such journals as Texas Architect, The Architect Review, Architecture, House Beautiful, Texas Homes, and Elle' Decor. Mr. Stern is an active member of his community, serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston School of Architecture since 1979, and serving on several museum and school advisory boards in the Houston area. Mr. Stern has also organized a symposium at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.

CLIFFORD MILES WELCH, AIA \ Welch Architecture, Dallas
Upon graduating from Richland High School in For Worth, Mr. Welch received an undergraduate degree and Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington. His initial years of practice were spent with HKS Architects, and four years with the Oglesby Group in Dallas. In 1993 he joined F/M Associates, which later became Design International, as a Principal and Studio Director. During his time with Design International, Mr. Welch has been responsible for many recognized projects such as the Big Theory.com offices featured in the Jan/Feb 2000 issue of Texas Architect. This past January he formed Welch Architecture where he is currently focusing on residential and commercial projects. He is the current President of the Dallas Architecture Foundation and has been very active in the Dallas Chapter AIA, where he was named Young Architect of the Year in 1997, and has served on the Executive Committee, chairing the Design Awards, Home Tour, and the Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition.

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2000 EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

HONOR AWARD WINNERS

MERIT AWARD WINNERS

CITATION AWARD WINNERS

STUDENT AWARD WINNERS