Competition for a Landmark Property

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Competition for a Landmark Property

• Why a design competition?
• What is a competition?
• Kinds of competitions
• Open Invited Pre-qualified
• Ideas Award leading to contract
• One stage Two stages

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The Leesburg Government Center by Hanno Weber
Associates

• Project realized from a national design
  competition
• Contributes to Leesburgs Historic District
• Woven into the town fabric of 18th and 19th
  century buildings
• Receives American Institute of Architects Urban
  Design Award in 1992
• Leesburgs Ingenious Town Hall Complex
  described by Washington Post Staff Writer
  Benjamin Forgey in a Post article as The Quirk
  that Works

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Leesburg Town Center

• Municipal Center becomes a town center
• Town Center has a clearly definedtown green
• Town green contributes to a welcoming pedestrian
  area
• 320 space parking structure incorporated into
  complex
• Extensive building program of 31,000 square feet

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Center for Civic Activity in the Town of
Blacksburg National Design Competition

• Competition Entries and Jury Review
• First Award by Shannon Taylor Scarlett
• Presentation Boards
• Urban Design Plan
• Library Proposal -Blacksburg Branch
• Montgomery County Library

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