A Weston home and structures for local parks in Stamford and Redding were recognized as among the best designed buildings in the state, as deemed by judges for the Connecticut chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Several Fairfield County architecture firms also won AIA notice for their contributions to buildings in other parts of the state.
AIA judges lauded David Scott Park Architects L.L.C. of Southport for its creation of a carriage house in Weston, one of five homes to receive residential design awards.
“The jury was taken by the rotundness of this six-car garage, which doesn”™t look like a garage,” an AIA judge wrote in comments. “This is a Colonial revival building that has verve!”
Greenwich-based Memrie Lewis Landscape Design was the landscape architect and Easton-based Gaines Construction Co. was the general contractor.
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New Haven-based Newman Architects L.L.C. was noted for a carousel enclosure and patio it designed for public land in Stamford.
“A definition of park often concentrates on trees, but this project brings in other elements as well for an overall effect: it is a shelter, a trellis; it has playfulness,” a juror wrote. “It is an interesting place that creates a destination.”
Branford-based Nelson Edwards Co. Architects L.L.C. was praised for “beautiful results” in the words of the panel of a restoration project at Putnam Memorial State Park in Redding, the site of a Continental Army winter encampment during the Revolutionary War.
“The building is really updated and is part of our time,” a panelist wrote. “The building looks like it always has, but is better. In this category a flexible relationship is necessary between the old and the new.”
Two other local firms contributed to the Putnam project, with Norwalk-based Landmark Facilities Group Inc. designing mechanical and electrical elements, and Stratford-based Heller & Johnsen serving as the geo-technical engineer.
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Several other local engineering, construction and consulting companies contributed to various projects, including Norwalk-based Jaffe Holden which was the acoustical consultant on Hartford-based Smiths Edwards Architects”™ conversion of a car dealership into the Handel Performing Arts Center at the University of Hartford.
Ridgefield-based Warfel Schrager Architectural Lighting L.L.C. was the lighting consultant for a hall at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Mass., designed by Centerbrook Architects and Planners of Centerbrook.
Norwalk-based Altieri Sebor Wieber L.L.C. was the lead mechanical and electrical engineer for two projects at Yale: the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Center at Yale”™s St. Thomas More Chapel designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; and the renovation of Paul Rudolph Hall led by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects L.L.C. and Hoffmann Architects Inc., both based in New York City.
On the Paul Rudolph Hall renovation, Danbury-based Barrett Inc. was in charge of roofing and waterproofing.
Danbury-based Kohler Ronan L.L.C. filled a similar role in the design of the Institution for Social and Policy Study at Yale designed by New Haven-based Charney Architects L.L.C.
Westport-based Collective Design Associates was the mechanical engineer for Yale”™s Office of Sustainability, designed by David Thompson Architects of New Haven.
