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First Posted: 11/14/2013
In 48 years of practice, the architectural firm of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has been the recipient of more than 540 local, national and international design awards. In 2010, Peter Bohlin, the company’s principal and co-founder, was awarded the American Institute of Architecture Gold Medal, the highest honor an individual architect can receive.
The firm most recently received accolades for the Kicking Horse Residence in Golden, British Columbia and the Colombiere Residence and Chapel for Senior Jesuits in Baltimore, Maryland, which were honored with the 2013 American Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Skyline Residence in Oregon was presented the AIA Pennsylvania Architectural Excellence Awards.
Other projects the firm has also received awards for include the Forest Glen Retreat, Milford;Stone Barn at a Coastal Farm, R.I.; and Newport Beach Civic Center and Park, Newport Beach, Calif.
Bohlin, FAIA (Fellow of the American Institute of Architects), recently said, “We build buildings for people and places,” in response to news the firm has again been recognized for its design achievements.
Bohlin, who resides in Waverly and started the firm in 1965, said while it is their great pleasure to win awards, their goal is to do “Terrific things for people in various places with various ways of shaping for climate and how people use things.”
Regarding the awards, Bohlin credits the entire firm for these achievements. “It’s all of us…When we accept these awards, it’s all of us. It’s not just any individual here,” said Bohlin.
Within the firm are 12 principals and 170 design and support staff spread throughout five offices in Wilkes-Barre, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Seattle and San Francisco, with a range of private residences, academic and cultural building projects around the globe from Pennsylvania to China.
“We have been rooted here, but the world is changing and so is the practice,” said Bohlin.
“The scope is enlarging. You don’t have to try very hard to do different things if you’re thinking about that. Circumstances are different. That’s one reason we’ve never given up doing little buildings, or shied away from large buildings.”
Gabriel Hodge, AIA, senior associate, Waverly, joined Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in 1998, and described the firm’s approach to building design as, “Each situation has unique qualities. Each building has unique occupants and users, so how could the architecture in turn not become a unique statement? So everyone is different and we allow those qualities of the site, and users, and the environment to shape each building as it develops.”
Locally, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is collaborating with hemmler+camayd architects, Scranton, for two projects at Marywood University and The University of Scranton, respectively. Hodge is the project manager of the Learning Commons at Marywood, scheduled for completion in 2015.
The University of Scranton Rehabilitation Education Center is an eight-story, 111,500 square foot rehabilitation facility that will house classroom, research, office and clinical spaces for undergraduate and graduate programs in the departments of exercise science, occupational therapy and physical therapy. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Nov. 14, and is expected to be completed in summer 2015.
For more informaiton, visit www.bcj.com.