2008 Award Winners

(In Alphabetical Order)

Mary & Frances Youth Center at VCU
Honor Award Winner

Newquay Lane House
Merit Award Winner

Old Gas Plant
Merit Award Winner

Page Bond Gallery
Merit Award Winner

Rappahannock River House
Honor Award Winner

The Virginia State Capitol Renovation and Expansion
Honor Award Winner

 

2008 Alice Lehman Sunday Prize Award Winners

Marcellus Wright Jr. Award

This is considered the Chapter’s highest individual award.  It is given in honor of one of the Chapter’s founding members, Marcellus Wright, Jr. by the Chapter Board, based on nominations by the Honors Committee, to a long time Chapter member who has demonstrated continuous service to the profession through their work.  This award is intended to provide public recognition to a distinguished member of the Chapter. This year the award is presented to Mary P. Cox, FAIA; University Architect, Virginia Commonwealth University.  For the last decade, Mary has guided the University to a higher level of design excellence, epitomized most recently in the newly completed first phase of its Monroe Park Campus expansion.

Chapter Citation

This is the Chapter’s highest public award, presented to a member, non-member, or organization whose work has contributed the public’s increased awareness of the built environment.  This year, the award is presented to Cynthia MacLeod, former director of the Richmond Unit of the National Park Service.  As noted by the NPS, during her almost eighteen year tenure in Richmond, MacLeod led her team in expanding battlefield and resource preservation and interpretation at both parks. She was instrumental in park historic building rehabilitations, and she established new visitor centers for each park, including Maggie L. Walker House National Historic Site.

2008 AIA Richmond Honors and Awards Jury

Saul Jabbawy, AIA

EWING COLE ARCHITECTS
Philadelphia, PA

Mr. Jabbawy has worked on numerous large-scale urban design and infrastructure projects.  His training in architecture and landscape architecture focuses on the interdisciplinary nature of urban design.  He is skilled at project design and management, and is primarily focused on the coordination of disciplines in the creation of program and site sensitive projects.  His expertise in design extends to extraordinary computer graphic capabilities using multiple programs to create still and animated images, which can aid in presenting the project to stakeholders prior to construction completion.  Mr. Jabbawy joined EwingCole in 1997, and was made director of design in 2007.

Awards and Publications

• AIA Honor Award (1999).  David S. Pottruck Athletic Center, University of Pennsylvania.
• Van-Alen (1998).  Second Place in design of Pier 40, public space concept on New York City waterfront.
• Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA (1995).  Honorable mention awarded for a proposal to alter the nature of the plaza through programmatically driven interventions (entries:  400).
• Public Space for the Atlanta Olympic Games, Atlanta, GA (1994).  Second place awarded for a proposed park/parking lot design for the Olympic Games (entries: 450).

Richard L. Maimon, AIA

ARACELY CORONADO KIERAN-TIMBERLAKE ASSOCIATES LLP 
Philadelphia, PA

Richard Maimon received his Bachelor's degree from Columbia University, magna cum laude, and his Master of Architecture from Princeton University. Richard received a Princeton University Fellowship from 1985 to 1989 and the Phi Beta Kappa Award from Columbia University in 1985.  He has been with the firm since 1987, was made Senior Associate in 2007, and is a LEED accredited professional.

Richard has been the Associate-in-Charge on major projects including Kieran-Timberlake Associates' 420N Studio, F. Otto Haas Stage at the Arden Theatre Company, Atwater Commons at Middlebury College, Melvin J. and Claire Levine Hall at the University of Pennsylvania and the residential and dining facilities study at The University of Chicago, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre for the Philadelphia Theatre Company, and the Make It Right project in New Orleans.

He is currently Associate-in-Charge of the Studio Box Theatre for the Philadelphia Theatre Company, and the new Center City Building for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA

JOHN MILNER ARCHITECTS, Inc.
Chadds Ford, PA

For the past 30 years, 26 of which have been in association with John D. Milner, FAIA, Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA has focused her architectural career on the field of historic preservation. Mary is personally involved with the firm’s projects that primarily include historic institutional, commercial and residential buildings in the full spectrum of architectural styles and periods of construction. Her professional expertise is broadly recognized in the management of complex or large projects including historic structure assessment, feasibility analysis, development of preservation priorities, master planning for multi-phased projects and creative approaches to adaptive reuse programming and design. She has been recognized at many levels as an expert in the field of architectural preservation.

Ms. DeNadai’s organizational and leadership skills have also enhanced her contributions to non-profit and quasi-public organizations at the local, state and national levels, where she has been an active and visible steward. Currently she serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Historic Landmark Commission of the National Park Service, on the Board of Directors of Cliveden, Board of Directors of Preservation Pennsylvania (currently vice- president and formerly president) and member and past chairman of the Historic Preservation Board for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 1999, Ms. DeNadai was the recipient of the F. Otto Haas Award, Pennsylvania’s highest recognition for contributions by an individual for lifetime achievements in the field of historic preservation.

John Chase AIA

EWING COLE ARCHITECTS
Philadelphia, PA

John Chase studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before moving to Penn to study architecture.  He received his MArch in 1973 from Penn and stayed for an extra year to study with Louis I. Kahn, for which he received another MArch in 1974. That proved to be Kahn’s last studio, as he died near the end of the school year.  John worked for a number of firms in Philadelphia before settling into a position with Venturi Scott Brown (first, Venturi and Rauch) where he stayed for fifteen years assisting Robert Venturi on a number of major works, most notably the Sainsbury Addition to the National Gallery, London.  John joined EwingCole in 1991 and became Director of Architecture and a Principal in 2000.  As a senior designer, he has worked in all of our practice areas – Sports, Cultural, Academic, Healthcare, Corporate, and Science and Technology.  John recently completed a major addition to the Liberty Science Center, in Liberty State Park, NJ, and is currently lead designer for a new home for the United States Military Academy Prep School, to be located on the West Point Campus.