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120 Vol Walker Hall
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone (479) 575-4945
Fax (479) 575-7099
Cowinners are (left) Heifer International World Headquarters, Little Rock, Ark., photo by Timothy Hursley and (right) Urban Outfitters Corporate Campus, Philadelphia, Pa., photo by Lara Swimmer.
2008 Alumni Design Awards
Two corporate headquarters projects share top honors this year. The jury noted that while both projects are large in scope, both “demonstrate a sensitivity to the human scale of architecture, creating spaces in which . . . people would enjoy working.” Each project takes a different approach to achieve sustainable design.
Designed by Reese Rowland (B. Arch. ’90), a principal with Polk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter Architects Ltd. of Little Rock, Heifer International World Headquarters began with the largest brownfield cleanup in Arkansas’ history and ultimately won platinum LEED certification. The jury described Heifer’s headquarters as “a beautiful resolution in form and tectonics, motivated by environmental concerns, but not prisoner to them.” They praised the project as a worthy companion to the adjacent Clinton Library and noted that “the integration of the building with the landscaped design is very well done.” Other School of Architecture alumni on the design team were Joe Stanley (B. Arch. ’69) project management; David Porter (B. Arch. ’82), construction management, and Dustin Davis (B. Arch. ’00), sustainable documentation.
Adaptive re-use and urban revitalization are elegantly realized in the Urban Outfitters Corporate Campus, housed in five restored buildings in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Jurors praised the project, designed by Jeffrey Scherer (B.Arch. ’71), a principal with Minneapolis firm Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle Ltd., for unifying “disparate structures with a new contemporary environment that emerges through a series of precise well orchestrated interventions – the new resonates with the old.”