Win, Win, Win: Ceramics of Italy Names Tile Competition Winners
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.
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.
Institutional winner MGA Partners.