Twenty-five Year Award

Twenty-five Year Award

The John Hancock Tower, the most recent recipient of the award
Awarded for Long-term excellence in American architecture
Presented by American Institute of Architects
Country United States of America
First awarded 1969
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The Twenty-five Year Award is an architecture prize awarded by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to buildings and structures that have "stood the test of time for 25 to 35 years",[1] and that "[exemplify] design of enduring significance."[2] The Twenty-five Year Award was first presented in 1969, and has been handed out every year from 1971 onward; the most recent winner, in 2011, was the John Hancock Tower, in Boston, Massachusetts.[3]

The project receiving the award can be located anywhere in the world, but must be designed by an architect licensed in the United States. Only two buildings outside of the United States have received the award, one in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the other in Barcelona, Spain. New York City has the most awards at five, while Boston, Chicago, New Haven, and Washington, DC are all tied in second with two awards each.

Buildings to which Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen has contributed have received six awards, while buildings designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Louis I. Kahn have each been honored five times. Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright have received this award four times, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has been honored for three of his buildings in the United States. Of the 41 projects that have received this award, only two, Eames House and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, had women as contributing architects.

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Eligibility

The Twenty-five Year Award can be awarded to any type of architectural project and may be either a single structure or a group of structures that compose a larger whole.[1] Past examples of projects winning the award in this way include both monuments, such as the Gateway Arch and Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and groupings of buildings, such as the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Most buildings nominated for this award are new structures but one winner, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, was a substantial renovation of warehouses into a festival marketplace.[4]

For a project to be eligible to win the Twenty-five Year Award, it must have been built between 25 and 35 years before the year of the award. It must also have been designed by "an architect licensed in the United States at the time of the project’s completion." This means that the award candidate can be anywhere in the world, but must have been designed by a licensed American architect, such as the Fundació Joan Miró in Spain.[1]

To be nominated the project must be in a "substantially completed form" as well as "in good condition". Potential candidates must not have been altered substantially since they were built. Change of use is allowed by the rules, but the "original intent" of the structure must still be intact.[1] These changes of use include reorganization of interior space. This was taken into account with the Price Tower, which when built was a mix of offices and apartments, but when awarded, had only one apartment remaining.[5] The award is presented at the AIA National Convention each year.[3]

Nomination procedure

"Any AIA member, group of members, component, or Knowledge Community" is allowed to nominate a project for the Twenty-five Year Award. A project may be nominated multiple times, as long as it still complies with the eligibility requirements. Nominees are judged by today's architectural standards in their function, execution, and creativity. The project and its site are judged together, with any changes in context taken into account.[1]

Award recipients

The "Year awarded" column states the year the award was handed out and has a link to an article about the significant architectural events that year.

Year
awarded		 Building(s)
city		 Image Architect(s)
1969 Rockefeller Center
New York City		 Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray
1971 Crow Island School
Winnetka, Illinois		 — Perkins, Wheeler & Will; Eliel & Eero Saarinen
1972 Baldwin Hills Village
Los Angeles		 Reginald D. Johnson; Wilson, Merrill & Alexander; Clarence S. Stein
1973 Taliesin West
Paradise Valley, Arizona		 Frank Lloyd Wright
1974 Johnson and Son Administration Building
Racine, Wisconsin		 Frank Lloyd Wright
1975 Philip Johnson's Residence ("The Glass House")
New Canaan, Connecticut		 Philip Johnson
1976 860–880 North Lakeshore Drive Apartments
Chicago		 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1977 Christ Lutheran Church
Minneapolis		 Saarinen, Saarinen & Associates; Hills, Gilbertson & Hays
1978 Eames House
Pacific Palisades, California		 Charles and Ray Eames
1979 Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, Connecticut		 Louis I. Kahn
1980 Lever House
New York City		 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
1981 Farnsworth House
Plano, Illinois		 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1982 Equitable Savings and Loan Building
Portland, Oregon		 Pietro Belluschi
1983 Price Tower
Bartlesville, Oklahoma		 Frank Lloyd Wright
1984 Seagram Building
New York City		 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1985 General Motors Technical Center
Warren, Michigan		 Eero Saarinen and Associates with Smith, Hinchman & Grylls
1986 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York City		 Frank Lloyd Wright
1987 Bavinger House
Norman, Oklahoma		 Bruce Goff
1988 Washington Dulles International Airport Terminal Building
Chantilly, Virginia		 Eero Saarinen and Associates
1989 Vanna Venturi House
Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania		 Robert Venturi
1990 Gateway Arch
St. Louis		 Eero Saarinen and Associates
1991 Sea Ranch Condominium One
The Sea Ranch, California		 Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker
1992 Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California		 Louis I. Kahn
1993 Deere & Company Administrative Center
Moline, Illinois		 Eero Saarinen and Associates
1994 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Deer Isle, Maine		 — Edward Larrabee Barnes
1995 Ford Foundation Headquarters
New York City		 Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates
1996 United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel
Colorado Springs		 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
1997 Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Exeter, New Hampshire		 Louis I. Kahn
1998 Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth		 Louis I. Kahn
1999 John Hancock Center
Chicago		 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
2000 The Smith House
Darien, Connecticut		 — Richard Meier & Partners
2001 Weyerhaeuser Headquarters
Federal Way, Washington		 — Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Fazlur Rahman Khan
2002 Fundació Joan Miró
Barcelona, Spain		 Sert Jackson and Associates
2003 Design Research Headquarters Building
Cambridge, Massachusetts		 BTA Architects (formerly known as Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Inc.)
2004 East Building, National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.		 I.M. Pei & Partners, Architects
2005 Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, Connecticut		 Louis I. Kahn
2006 Thorncrown Chapel
Eureka Springs, Arkansas		 E. Fay Jones
2007 Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Washington, DC		 Maya Lin, designer; Cooper-Lecky Architects, architect of record
2008 The Atheneum
New Harmony, Indiana		 Richard Meier & Partners
2009 Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Boston		 Benjamin Thompson & Associates
2010 The Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia		 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
2011 John Hancock Tower
Boston		 I.M. Pei & Partners

See also

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Twenty-Five Year Award. American Institute of Architects. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  2. ^ Haystack school to receive architecture award. Bangor Daily News. December 10, 1993. p. 24. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
  3. ^ a b John Hancock Tower in Boston selected to receive AIA Twenty-five Year Award. Archinnovations. January 19, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2011
  4. ^ Campbell, Robert. Two urban drawing cards are now in limbo. The Boston Globe. December 21, 2008. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
  5. ^ AIA honors Wright tower. Milwaukee Journal. May 8, 1983. p. 5. Retrieved July 1, 2011