Shaw Contract Announces Winners of 11th Design Is... Award

Cartersville, GA, October 14, 2016—In its eleventh year, the Shaw Contract Design Is... Award program honors architecture and design firms that challenge the very idea of design. The 2016 Global Award winners and People’s Choice Winner have been selected. A panel of design professionals selected six winners out of more than 450 entries submitted from 32 countries.

Winning projects include:

Large Office (Greater than 40,000 sq. ft.)

FIRM: Perkins + Will

PROJECT: Nixon Peabody, LLP

LOCATION: Washington, DC

Education

FIRM: MARS Interieurarchitecten

PROJECT: Interior Design for the Study of Aeronautical Services, Hospitality & Tourism

LOCATION: Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

Education

FIRM: Haskell Architects

PROJECT: Wyndham Vale Primary School

LOCATION: Wyndham Vale, Australia

Hospitality

FIRM: Stars Design BV

PROJECT: Post Plaza

LOCATION: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Public Sector

FIRM: PIVOT Archictecture

PROJECT: TriMet Center Street Report Area

LOCATION: Portland, OR

People’s Choice – (a Senior Living project)

FIRM: THW

PROJECT: Berman Commons

LOCATION: Dunwoody, GA

The 2016 judging panel included: Claudia Andrade, Andrade Azevedo Arquitetura; Debra Barresse, Princeton University; Lisa Cini, Mosaic Design Studio; Leigh Fayfich, VOA & Associates; David Frank, Gensler; Pamela D. Goff, Leo A Daly; Jennifer Hamilton, Square One Design; Todd Heiser, Gensler; Michelle R. Isroff, Big Red Rooster; Ghina Itani, Itani Design Concepts  Michael Lutz, Gensler; Paula Margaritis, IBI Group; Robert Norwood, NBBJ; Vince Rieselman, Orcutt | Winslow; Laura Shue, tvsdesign; Sumita Sundaram, DSP Design Associates; and Bronte Turner, HLW. 

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