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AWARDS
Awards
2017 ACORN AWARD "GOLDEN HAMMER"
Winner: Best Large Restoration
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia
"...The construction of the museum, which began in 2012, had a strong positive impact on the surrounding community with a primary objective of including local and minority entities in the development process — one that mirrored the objective of the armory’s initial construction. During construction, 18 people received on-the-job training for the project. Black-owned businesses also played an integral role in the success of this project; fifteen black-owned companies performed 70% of the work. This tax credit project preserves the armory’s original façade and incorporates similar brickwork and masonry in its addition, creating a seamless transition from old to new".
- Historic Richmond
2021 ACORN AWARD "GOLDEN HAMMER"
Winner: Best Adaptive Reuse
Cooperage II
(Overbrook Phase II)
“…The real story of this project lies in the windows. There were no existing windows on the primary façade. Windows were necessary for the residential units but could not be added to the historic façade. The solution to the problem was to enable the building to continue functioning as a warehouse, with a village inside of it…The key to the courtyard's design and massive skylights satisfied preservation requirements but created their engineering challenges—the entire remaining rooftop houses solar panel arrays. The vintage Fir tongue and groove roof decking removed to create skylights was then reintegrated into the project’s public areas as all cladding that combines nicely with the original brick, the historic fire doors, and concrete floors and columns.
-Historic Richmond
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