BSI Tucker Design Awards

Prestigious Tucker Design Award Recipients Named

Building Stone Institute (BSI), one of the country's oldest natural stone trade associations, announced the recipients of the biennial Tucker Design Awards for 2006. The awards ceremony was held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on May 19.

First presented in 1977, the Tucker Design Awards are recognized as one of the most prestigious architectural design awards in both the building and landscape industries. The Tucker Design Awards honor those who achieve the criteria of excellence in concept, design, construction and the use of natural stone.

"These are an impressive group of recipients from around our country and the world," said Jeff Buczkiewicz, BSI executive vice president. "The winners represent the absolute finest building and landscape projects utilizing natural stone. Our Tucker Design Awards celebrate the innovation and vision that designers bring to their projects by specifying and using natural stone building materials."

Distinguished jurors for this year's Tucker Design Awards were: Gordon H. Chong, FAIA, founding partner of Chong Partners Architecture and past president of the American Institute of Architects; and Richard Macias, ASLA, campus planner, San Francisco State University, and co-author of "Community Design Management," the definitive planner for urban design, revitalization and planning.

Founded in 1919, BSI is a not-for-profit trade association working on behalf of member quarriers, fabricators, dealers, importers, exporters, carvers, restorers, designers and installers working with natural stone. For more information, visit www.buildingstoneinstitute.org.

Note: The * denotes MCAA members.

402 Redbud Trail, West Lake Hills, Texas
Architect: Cottam Hargrave Architecture and Construction,
Austin, Texas
Stone Installer: JP Castelline Masonry, Austin, Texas
Stone Supplier: Continental Quarriers, Inc. Lueders, Texas

The Park at Lakeshore East, Chicago
Architect: Site Design Group Ltd., Chicago; the Office of James Burnett, Houston
Stone Installer: John Synko, Mark 1 Restoration Company, Chicago; W.R. Weis Company Inc., Chicago
Stone Suppliers: Aspen Valley Landscape Supply, Park City, Ill.; Buechel Stone Corporation, Chilton, Wis.; Cold Spring Granite, Cold Spring, Minn.; Halquist Stone Company, Sussex, Wis.; Meno Stone Company, Lemont, Ill.

San Diego Padres Ballpark, San Diego
Design Architect: Antoine Predock Architect P.C., Albuquerque, N.M.
Design Architect: HOK Sport+Venue+Event, Kansas City, Mo.
Stone Installer: Klaser Tile, Chula Vista, Calif.
Stone Suppliers: Stone A.V., USA, Plano, Texas; Modern Builders Supply, San Marco, Calif.

Prothro House Addition and Remodel, Dallas
Architect: Lawrence W. Speck, FAIA, of PageSoutherlandPage, Austin, Texas
Stone Installer: *Fenimore-Blythe Ltd., Haltom City, Texas
Stone Supplier: Mezger Supply, Lampasas, Texas

MTA TBTA Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Renovation/ Rehabilitation of Ventilation Building, Brooklyn, New York
Architect: DiGeronimo P.C., Paramus, N.J.
Stone Installers: Millennium Stone, Tile & Masonry, Flushing, N.Y.; Graciano Masonry, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Stone Supplier: North Carolina Granite Corporation, Mt. Airy, N.C.

Art Collectors' Residence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Architect: Hariri Pontarini Architects, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stone Installer: Rotundo Stone and Masonry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stone Supplier: Owen Sound Ledgerock, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada

Belvedere Gardens Mausoleum, Salem, Va.
Architect: SMBW Architects P.C., Richmond, Va.
Stone Installer: Jim Skiles, Antioch, Tenn.
Stone Supplier: Scott Stone, Mebane, N.C.

Factory for Synergy Lifestyles, Karur, Tamil Nadu, India
Architect: SJK Architects, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Stone Supplier and Installer: Bricksteel Enterprises, Bangalore, Kamataka, India

Trinity Church Restoration, Boston
Architect: Goody Clancy, Boston
Stone Suppliers and Installers: Kenneth Castellucci & Associates Inc., Lincoln, R.I.; Port Morris Tile & Marble, Boston; Restoration Preservation Masonry, Northborough, Mass.

The Liberty Bell Center, Independence National Historic Park, Philadelphia
Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Philadelphia
Stone Installer: D.M. Sabia, & Company Inc., Conshohocken, Pa.; James Molyneaux Co., Newton Square, Pa.
Stone Supplier: Vickery Stone Company, Havertown, Pa.; Fletcher Granite Co. LLC, Westford, Mass.

Sigmund Stern Grove Renovation, San Francisco
Architect: Office of Lawrence Halprin, San Francisco
Stone Installer: QuarryHouse Inc., San Anselmo, Calif.
Stone Supplier: Chen-Ragen LLC, Seattle

Unified Science Center, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
Architects: Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture and Engineering P.C., Boston; Helfand Architecture P.C., New York (Architects in Association)
Stone Installer: Davis-Giovinazzo Construction Co., Plymouth Meeting, Pa.
Stone Supplier: Media Quarry Co., Media, Pa.