June 16, 2014

Win, Win, Win: Ceramics of Italy Names Tile Competition Winners



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Commercial winner Corgan Associates.


The top winners in the 2014

Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition

are rewarded threefold. The award-winning designers and architects in the commercial, residential, and institutional categories each receive a $4,000 cash prize, a trip to Bologna to attend

Cersaie

, and, of course, the recognition that comes from being honored at a press conference during Coverings. Sponsored by

Confindustria Ceramica

and the

Italian Trade Commission

, the competition was open to North American firms.


The commercial award went to Dallas-based

Corgan Associates

for its renovation of the vast atrium within the 1970’s Plaza of the Americas. Corgan’s work entailed transforming this 64,000-square-foot space, the connector between the project’s two mixed-use towers, into a tiered indoor park offering additional retail and restaurant opportunities.



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Residential winners D.I. Group and Adeet Madan.


A residence in Los Angeles’s elegant Hancock Park neighborhood took the award for collaborators

D.I. Group

and Adeet Madan. The 5-bedroom house is a mash-up of Asian and Italian influences coming together in a way glorifies the SoCal lifestyle.


It’s back to the East Coast for the institutional winner. In Philadelphia,

MGA Partners

designed Temple University’s Morgan Hall, a housing, dining, retail venue occupying a full city block of the urban campus.


In addition to these top honorees, the international jury named two honorable mentions in each category. Ci vediamo in Italia.



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Institutional winner MGA Partners.



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