1999 P/A Awards, Awards for Architectural Research

Awards & Competitions

Several environmental projects are featured in

Architecture magazine’s April 1999 awards issue. One of the projects receiving a citation in the

46th Annual P/A Awards was a Hay Barn and Stable in Somis, California by the Los Angeles firm SPF:a, constructed of a light steel frame with hay bales around the perimeter doubling as insulation (until they’re used). Another citation went to Patkau Architects of Vancouver for their Nursing and Biomedical Sciences Building at the University of Texas–Houston. As noted in

EBN

Vol. 8, No. 2, this building also received an award from

Canadian Architect magazine.

Among the winners of the

1999 Awards for Architectural Research was the Emeryville Resourceful Building Project by Siegel and Strain Architects, a small, three-unit affordable housing complex for which embodied energy, operating energy, and environmental life-cycle impacts of building materials were carefully documented. Several alternatives were considered for each building system, based on environmental and cost implications. Another award went to a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory team led by Steven Selkowitz for research on daylighting with integrated envelope and lighting systems. A third award went to researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for a silicate phosphor invention that could eventually replace the mercury in fluorescent light tubes.