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MAME Award Winners Announced:

Godden Sudik Brings Home THREE, Including Detached Home of the Year!

 

 

It was another great night for Godden Sudik Architects Saturday, October 3rd, at the annual Marketing and Merchandising Excellence (MAME) Awards.  Presented by the Sales & Marketing Council and HBA of Metro Denver the MAME Awards honor the top achievers in the new home industry. These awards are presented to those who set the standard of excellence in the Denver homebuilding industry and we could not be more proud to be part of such a prestigious group of winners. We would like to offer our congratulations to all MAME winners and in particular to Berkeley Homes, Harrison Custom Homes, and Possibilities for Design who shared three awards with us. And our winners are:

Best Architectural Design of a Detached Home 2,200-2,600 sq ft.

Park Hill – The Bluebird – Berkeley Homes

Best on the Boards Architectural Design of a Home

Lemon Gulch Road – Harrison Custom Homes

Detached Home of the Year

Park Hill – The Bluebird – Berkeley Homes - Possibilities for Design

For a full list of MAME winners click here.

The High Line - New York City

New York City is made up of numerous high rises, subways and people. It would be an understatement to say that New York City, with a population of 1,585,873 within only 22.96 square miles, is a crowded place to live. When you have 69,464 neighbors within a square mile, you learn to use every inch of space you have. The City of New York City has learned this as well and a prime example of this is the High Line. 

Originally built in the 1930's, it raised freight traffic 30 feet off the ground removing dangerous trains from pedestrian paths. The line was closed in the 1980's and sat untouched for many years. Friends of the High Line, a community-based non-profit group, formed in 1999 when the historic structure was under threat of demolition. Friends of the High Line works in partnership with the City of New York to preserve and maintain the structure as an elevated public park. 

The project was approved in 2002 and construction for the rehabilitation of the line began in 2006 and the final stretch of the project opened in spring of 2011. The project is a brilliant example of rehabilitation and attention to detail. When walking down the stretch, layers of the sidewalk seamlessly merge into the landscape, benches grown out of the ground and original train tracks guide the wheels of the lounges.

Along side the High Line, new residential buildings have been erected along side hundred year old buildings, creating an architecturally intriguing backdrop for your journey down the path.  The mixture of the old and new is a constant reminder as you wind down this landscaped trail elevated above all the commotion that everything in this city is used carefully.

Before Construction Began (image
from www.highline.org)

Original Design of the High Line by 
James Corner Field Operations, 
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and 
Piet Oudolf

For more information about the High Line please check out www.thehighline.org.

Balancing Form and Function

Here is an interesting NPR Broadcast about the Denver Art Museum and the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum. They discusses the form and function of the addition to the DAM and its design and how some people love what it adds to the Denver cityscape, while others feel that the building is an extreme example of using a celebrity architect to help create tourism within the city. They also discuss the form and function of the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the differences between the two museums. Libeskins San Francisco museum seems to be more widely accepted by all and it can be argued that this is because of the two very different uses of the museums.  What do you think?


Click Here to Listen:
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=97965115&m=97983164