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AIA Orlando 2015 Design Award Winners

Jul 8, 2015
1 min

AIA Orlando 2015 Design Award Winners

Out of 52 submissions, an independent jury has selected 10 projects as Excellence, Honor, Merit and Honorable Merit award winners. Some of this years wins are for projects in other states, by our local firms, demonstrating as in former years, that Orlando architects are sought for their expertise in courthouse, healthcare and municipal building design. The esteemed projects show an adeptness at infusing modernism with intricate detail on fenestration, structural expression,

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San Andreas Courthouse 2014 AIA Orlando Honor Award

Oct 27, 2014
3 min

San Andreas Courthouse 2014 AIA Orlando Honor Award

Our local office of DLR Group Architects has designed a striking new courthouse for Calaveras County in California. Like many local architects, they have a national reputation working on projects around the country. This project received a 2014 Honor Award, by guest jury selection, from the AIA Orlando Chapter. The design and planning of the new County courthouse was deeply influenced by the natural setting in which it resides. To harmonize with the delicate oak woodlands and

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Lake County Courthouse in Tavares

Jul 8, 2014
2 min

Lake County Courthouse in Tavares

By reorienting the existing judicial building, the new expansion addresses Main Street with a linear public plaza, providing an ordered setting and formal processional. This campus spans both sides of the downtown thoroughfare stitching together a grand government campus. Design inspiration for the courthouse, in part, came from the County’s assemblage of public buildings including the 1922 Historic Courthouse, the circular-atriumed Courts Annex, the current Judicial Building

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George C. Young Federal Courthouse

Sep 5, 2013
1 min

George C. Young Federal Courthouse

Another of 2011’s award winning designs in the Unbuilt Category is the George C. Young Federal Courthouse And Building Orlando, Florida. It received the AWARD OF MERIT, designed by DLR Group, Orlando, Florida. The project reinvigorates an aging building that had lost its admirers, as many buildings eventually do. This was the independent Jury’s favorite and they said: “The new entry feature activates the park and provides a pedestrian scale to an urban context while providing

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