The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design’s American Architecture Awards honor the year’s best architecture, landscape and planning projects by American architects. Four HOK-designed buildings are being recognized in 2020.
1. Exposition: Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky
Located in the downtown core of Louisville, the new Kentucky International Convention Center (KICC, pictured above) redefines the role of urban convention centers. The design creates an urban extrovert: a center that supports the demands of the program and celebrates the activity of the convention center, its interaction with the city and its contribution to the vitality of downtown Louisville.
2. Commercial: Consumers Credit Union Headquarters in Kalamazoo, Michigan
With Consumers Credit Union’s new headquarters (pictured above) situated on a heavily forested site, the design team challenged the suburban office paradigm. Deviating from the conventional three-story center core building with surface parking, the design creates a high-performance workplace within a structure that both complements and preserves the sylvan locale.
3. Mixed-Use Buildings: 4th and Harrison Mixed-Use Development in San Francisco
Bridging San Francisco’s financial center with the newly developed Mission Bay neighborhood, the 4th & Harrison Mixed-use Development (above) represents a significant investment at the heart of the city’s South of Market district (SoMA). The project includes 770,000 square feet of Class A office space, 36,000 square feet of retail, childcare, and production-distribution-repair space, and 16,700 square feet of public open space. Targeting LEED Platinum certification, the project aims to be the largest-scale carbon-neutral development in San Francisco.
4. Hospitals: NewYork-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center in New York City
Greatly expanding NewYork-Presbyterian’s service to the community, the David H. Koch Center (above) provides advanced integrative healthcare and complex outpatient services with a special focus on the human experience. Patient-centered and family-centered care is at the forefront of the building’s far-reaching medical program.