![]() Maine Home+Design is honored to announce the winners of the 2010 AIA Maine Design Awards.įrom a field of thirty-four entries, this year’s highest award went to a house on Casco Bay in Freeport designed by Blue Hill–based Elliott & Elliott Architecture. The simple question for us always is, ‘How do we respect the natural and built landscape of Maine?’ Everyone answers that question differently, and it changes all the time, but my sense is that the solutions are becoming more sophisticated, nuanced, and complex, and this year’s entries reflect that brilliantly.” ![]() “As long as I’ve been in Maine, I’ve seen a consistent, healthy investigation by architects seeking to design buildings that respond to the very special context in which we work and live. Commercial and residential projects were both considered, and the 2010 competition saw a healthy mix of the two.īruce Norelius, an architect in Maine and California and AIA Maine chairperson for the Committee on Design, uncrated the entries at Olson Kundig Architects in Seattle in preparation for the jury. To be considered for the 2010 AIA Maine Design Awards, projects had to be from 2006 or later and designed by architects whose primary offices are in Maine (although projects do not have to be located in Maine in fact, one was in New Hampshire this year). ![]() This meeting happens every two years, when the Maine chapter of the AIA solicits the best of Maine architecture for a design competition juried by a group that includes a nationally prominent peer from outside the state. ![]() In early 2010, in the opposite corner of the country, four Seattle-based American Institute of Architects members convened to deliberate on the best architectural design in the state of Maine. ![]()
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