BSI Announces Tucker, Bybee Honors

Established in 1977, the Tucker Design Award honors those who achieve the criteria of excellence in the use of natural stone in concept, design, and construction. The biennial award is recognized for its excellence in both the building and landscape industries.
 “This year’s recipients represent some of the finest building and landscape projects throughout North  America utilizing natural stone,” says Margie Lechowicz, BSI executive vice president. “Tucker Design Awards celebrate the innovation and vision that designers bring to their projects by specifying and using natural stone building materials.”
Jurors for this year’s competition winners were Randall C.  Gideon, FAIA, co-chariman, CEO, and founding principal of Gideon Toal, Fort Worth, Texas, and Lance C. Melton, AIA, VP Wiginton Hooker Jeffry Architects, Dallas.
The winning projects are:
• Campbell Cliffs, Tucson, Ariz.;
• Opus 22, Genesse, Colo.;
• Litowitz Residence, Glencoe, Ill.;
• Bailey Plaza, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.;
• Park East Synagogue, Pepper Pike, Ohio;
• Frisco City Hall, Frisco, Texas;
• The Community Chalkboard: A Monument to Free Expression, Charlottesville, Va.;
• Atwater Commons, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.;
• Seattle City Hall, Seattle; and
• Ridge House, rural Canada.
At the Dallas ceremony, the BSI also bestowed the James Daniel Bybee Prize for 2008 on Henry N. Cobb, FAIA, and a founding principal of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Architect in New York.
Named in honor of James Daniel Bybee, a long standing BSI member, the prize is awarded to an individual architect for a body of work executed over time and distinguished by outstanding design and the use of natural stone.
Cobb has been responsible as design partner for projects including the John Hancock Tower in Boston; Library (now U.S. Bank) Tower in Los Angeles; Tour EDF at La Défense in Paris; and the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Works in progress include Torre Espacio in Madrid and the Butler College Residence Halls at Princeton University.
Throughout his career, Mr. Cobb coupled his professional activity with academia at numerous schools of architecture, including those at Princeton, Columbia University, and Yale University. From 1980-1985, he served as Studio Professor and Chairman of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he still teaches occasionally as a visiting lecturer. In 1992, he was Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.