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Canadian Architecture Prize : Bing Thom Architects Inc. (BTA)

v Mar 2010

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BING THOM ARCHITECTS WINS Royal ARCHITECTURAL INSTITUTE OF CANADA'S
2010 FIRM OF THE Year Honour

BTA's New Arena stage Project to open in Washington DC in October 2010 and New Monograph on the house'south work to be published in the same calendar month

RAIC Awards 2010

The Purple Architectural Institute of Canada appear this week that it had selected Bing Thom Architects Inc. (BTA) as the recipient of its 2010 Architectural Firm Honour.

Founded in 1982 in Vancouver, BTA has executed a wide spectrum of projects in Canada, Europe and China, from single-family residences to the design of unabridged cities. This yr BTA will complete the house's kickoff projects in the Usa, giving Americans an opportunity to experience the piece of work of these acclaimed designers up shut – kickoff with the reopening of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and followed by the opening of the E Trinity campus of Tarrant County College in Fort Worth Texas, which is the starting time phase of the Trinity River Uptown programme, the largest urban redevelopment currently being undertaken in the United States.

Arena Stage, Washington, DC:

Principals Bing Thom and Michael Heeney, share a fundamental belief in the transformative power of bang-up architecture to uplift, not only the concrete, but besides the economical and social conditions of a community. The firm'due south belief in this power has go the grounding philosophy for the office, and has resulted in memorable compages that consistently taps into something beyond aesthetics. BTA's buildings are non merely beautiful, they also add to the health of the communities in which they reside.

In selecting BTA, the Jury noted the firm "has developed a practice that seeks out inventive collaborations between stakeholders, every bit in the Surrey Fundamental Urban center project where the Simon Fraser Academy satellite campus was built on top of a commercial centre as a way to reactivate 1 of the largest suburbs in Canada. Their piece of work with Fast + Epp engineers has produced highly innovative roof structures and their Chan Middle for the Performing Arts is one of the architectural jewels of Vancouver."

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BTA has long consort the "Master Builder" approach to architecture, breaking downward the isolation that often exists between blueprint and structure and working straight with the contractors and trades to develop innovative and cost constructive solutions to unusual building configurations. BTA'southward professional practice is enriched through the work of BTAworks, an independent enquiry and development group that helps BTA to understand the demography and trends in the communities in which BTA works and that helps the firm stay on the forefront of sustainable applications in architecture.

This coming October, BTA's new Arena Phase at the Mead Center for American Theater will open – the firm'southward first major U.S. committee to be completed. Arena Stage is i of the most famous regional theaters the U.S. simply the original complex, congenital in the 1960s, likewise the surrounding surface area, had deteriorated significantly by the fourth dimension BTA was hired.

The firm devised an ingenious design that saves and reuses the 2 original, historic theater buildings – while adding the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle, a versatile new experimental theater. By wrapping all 3 buildings in a 55-foot-high laminated-glass skin and topping them with a heroic cantilevered roof, BTA combines the old and new to create an imaginative and forceful theatrical compound that has already become a catalyst for the revitalization of Southwest Washington D.C.

Benjamin Forgey, erstwhile architectural critic for The Washington Post, chosen BTA's plan, "a sweet, brilliantly approachable pattern . . . it'll practice wonders for both the theater and its rather isolated urban neighborhood." He also wrote, "People volition come to look at, equally well as exist in, this edifice. Its transparency will exist compelling day and night. Hitting structural elements, such as towering mast-similar wood columns, fit the setting perfectly. The array of buildings will class an enticing footling cityscape. So there is the astonishing roof with its impossible-seeming 170-foot cantilever, hovering cloudlike over the whole."

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The completion of Arena Phase is the commencement of several project openings and milestones for BTA. Also in October 2010, Princeton Architectural Press will be publishing Bing Thom Works, the first comprehensive monograph on the work of BTA. The volume volition characteristic conversational essays on the firm'south work, also every bit discussions of almost of BTA'south built projects and an essay by Japanese architect and urbanist Fumihiko Maki.

In addition to the opening of Arena Phase and the publication of the monograph, the firm'southward other upcoming openings and current projects include:

-Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas (opening March 2011);
-Southern Alberta Institute of Engineering's Parkade (to be completed spring 2010);
-Surrey City Centre Library (opening spring 2011).

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