Tucker Awards 2008
May 9, 2008
Dallas, TX


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the 2006 Tucker Awards Program featuring information on the winning designs, designers, architects, and photos of the projects.

Tucker Architectural Awards
Sponsored by Building Stone Institute and recognized as one of the most prestigious architectural design awards in the country, the Tucker Awards honor those who have achieved excellence in the incorporation and use of natural stone in their building or landscape project.


James Daniel Bybee Prize
In honor of the late James Daniel Bybee, this award is presented to an individual architect for a body of work executed over time and distinguished by outstanding design and use of natural stone. Recipients include Malcolm Holzman, FAIA, M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA, Ceasar Pelli, FAIA, Lawrence Halprin, FASLA.



2008 Tucker Design Awards and Bybee Prize Winner

Tucker Awards

Distinguished Jurors for this year’s Tucker Design Awards are: Randall C. Gideon, FAIA, Co-Chairman, CEO and founding Principal of Gideon Toal, Fort Worth, TX, elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, and Lance C. Melton, AIA, Vice Presdient, Wiginton Hooker Jeffry, Dallas, TX.

Awards will be presented Friday, May 9th at the Tucker Design Awards ceremony, being held at The Fairmont Hotel, Dallas, TX. 

The BSI Board of Directors and Tucker Awards Committee are pleased to announce the 2008 Award winning Projects:

  

Campbell Cliffs, Tucson, AZ
Firm: Line and Space, LLC; Tucson, AZ
Stone Installer: Line and Space Construction, LLC, Tucson AZ
Stone Supplier: Dunbar Stone Company, Ash Fork, AZ

Ridge House, Rural Canada
Firm: Bohlin, Cywinski, Jackson, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Stone Installer: Rob Niezien Masonry, Inc., Canada
Stone Distributor: Quarra Stone Company, LLC, Madison, WI
Stone Quarry: Truffer AG Natursteinwork, Balma, Vals/Germany

Litowitz Residence, Glencoe, IL
Firm: Liederbach and Graham, Architects, Chicago, IL
Stone Installers: Jacks Masonry, Crystal Lake, IL
                         Masonry by Fernando, Rondout, IL
Stone Suppliers: Connecticut Stone Supplies, Milford, CT
                         Cleveland Quarries, Amherst, OH
                         Evergreen Slate Company, Inc. Granville, NY
                         Galloy and Van Etten, Chicago, IL
                         Jay Sackett Associates, Skokie, IL

Opus 22, Genesse, CO
Firm: Marpa Design Studio, Boulder, CO
Stone Installer: Marpa Design Studio, Boulder, CO
Stone Suppliers: Stone Wholesale, Fort Collins, CO
                         Albert Frei, Henderson, CO

Bailey Plaza, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Firm: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, PC
Stone Installers:  Ithaca Stone Setting, Ithaca, NY
                         Syrstone, Inc., North Syracuse, NY
Stone Suppliers: Connecticut Stone Supplies, Milford, CT
                         New York Quarries, Inc., Alcove, NY
                         Tompkins Bluest Stone, Hancock, NY

The Community Chalkboard: A Monument to Free Expression, Charlottesville, VA.
Firm: Siteworks, Charlottesville, VA
Stone Installer: Empire Granite Company, Richmond, VA
Stone Supply and Fabrication: Buckingham Virginia Slate Company, Buckingham, VA

Atwater Commons, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
Firm: KieranTimberlake Associates, LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Stone Installer: J.B. Stone, St. Albans, VT
Stone Supplier: Vermont Structural Slate, Fair Haven, VT;
                       Owen Sound Ledgerock, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada;
                       Granit Aurelien, Tremblay, Alma, Quebec, Canada

Park East Synagogue, Pepper Pike, Ohio
Firm: Mark Simon, FAIA, with Edward J. Keagle, AIA of Centerbrook Architects and Planners, Centerbrook, CT.
Stone Supplier: Jerusalem Gardens Stone Works, Ltd., Beit-Shemesh, Israel
Stone Installer: SPS & Associates, Hudson, OH

Seattle City Hall, Seattle, WA
Firms: Joint Venture/ Bassetti Architects, Seattle, WA/Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Seattle, WA
Stone Installers: Columbia Stone, Inc., Portland, Oregon
                         Rubenstein’s Contract Carpet, LLC, Seattle, WA
Stone Suppliers: Guinet-Derriaz, Lyon, France
                         Stone N.V., Londerzell, Belgium

George A. Purefoy Municipal Center, Frisco, TX
Firm: Holzman Moss Architecture
Stone Installer: Dee Brown Inc., Dallas, TX
Stone Supplier: Cold Spring Granite, Cold Spring, MN
                       TexaStone Quarries, Garden City, TX

 

2008 James Daniel Bybee Prize

 

 

The 2008 James Daniel has been awarded to Henry N. Cobb, FAIA, in honor of the legacy of his work and excellence in the use of Natural Stone.  Mr. Cobb will receive his award at the Tucker Design Awards Ceremony, being held Friday, May 9 at the Fairmont Hotel, Dallas Texas.

Henry Cobb is a founding principal of Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, Architects, with offices in New York City.  Throughout his career, Mr. Cobb has coupled his professional activity with teaching, as lecturer and design critic at numerous schools of architecture, including those at Princeton, Columbia and Yale Universities.  From 1980 to 1985 he served as Studio Professor and Chairman of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he still teaches occasionally as a visiting lecturer.  In 1992, he was Architects in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

Mr. Cobb is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He has received a number of awards recognizing his achievements as both architects and educator. 

Built works for which Mr. Cobb has been responsible as design partner include, but are not limited to John Hancock Tower, Boston (1976); Arco Tower, Dallas (1983) Library Tower, Los Angeles (1989); College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (2000) Tour EDF at La Defense, Paris (2001); Hyatt Center Chicago, 2005 and the Regional Headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City (2008).