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March
2002
The Grand Valley Chapter of the AIA (American Institute
of Architects) presented Integrated Architecture with two
Honor Awards at Saturday’s annual Honor Awards Dinner.
Winning an inaugural award in the new Sustainable Design
category and in the Building Design category, Integrated
Architecture demonstrated versatility
of design excellence with two dramatically different winners.
Integrated
Architecture’s Herman Miller Marketplace won one of
the first AIAGV Sustainable Design Awards. The new award
category recognizes projects that offer a viable design
solution that protects and enhances the environment. The
Marketplace’s green, people-friendly environment is
filled with natural light, fresh air and ample space within
an efficient, economically viable design/build scenario.
Designed to achieve a US Green Building Council Silver LEED
(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Rating,
the Marketplace utilizes recycled carpet, natural stone,
certified renewable wood, abundant daylight and a heating
/ cooling system that is 40% more efficient than the norm.
The building’s central core café opens to the
interior light well / courtyard, establishing views outside
and into further reaches of the building. “This project
offers tangible evidence of Integrated Architecture’s
commitment to Green Design,” said Mike Corby, AIA,
Michigan’s Young Architect of the Year, 2000 and Marketplace
lead designer. “Key staff members are LEED-trained
and certified, enabling us to provide knowledge-based solutions
that result in comfortable, efficient, appealing and ultimately
more successful buildings. “
Building owner: Granger Group
Contractor: Triangle Construction
Client: Herman Miller
Integrated Architecture also earned an AIA-GV building design
award for Founders Trust Personal Bank, Cascade. This 27,000
SF building establishes a landmark at the corner of Cascade
and Spaulding, creating a sophisticated, highly visible
financial institution. Founders' open, friendly, and easily
accessible personal banking experience is translated into
brick and mortar reality through an expansive curtain wall
window that opens the bank to the public while creating
a welcoming, light-filled, open lobby.
The
Founders Project:
Owner and Client: Founders Trust Personal Bank
Contractor: C. D. Barnes
“We
are grateful to Herman Miller and Founders Trust for the
opportunity to design these facilities. It is inspiring
to work with clients who understand the positive impact
of good architectural design, and who give us the opportunity
to design buildings that support their goals and objectives
be it sustainability or the provision of friendly, personal
service in an open, people-friendly environment. While these
awards affirm our staff’s ability to deliver excellence
to a wide variety of projects, we are also pleased to be
recognized by our peers. Our goal is to exceed expectations
while positively affecting the built environment. Both of
these projects do just that,” said Paul Dickinson,
AIA, IA President.
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Herman
Miller Marketplace
Zeeland, MI
Herman
Miller Marketplace
Zeeland, MI
Herman
Miller Marketplace
Zeeland, MI
Founders
Trust
Grand Rapids, MI
Founders
Trust
Grand Rapids, MI
Founders
Trust
Grand Rapids, MI
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