Yale and University of Virginia Projects Receive SCUP Honor

Yale University's Franklin and Murray Colleges

Two OLIN-designed projects have been recognized by the Society for College and University Planning’s 2018 Excellence Awards: Yale University’s Franklin and Murray Colleges and the University of Virginia’s Ruth Caplin Theater. Both projects were honored with a 2018 Excellence in Architecture award, which recognizes exemplary planning, design, and implementation efforts of firms and institutions nationwide. In the “New Building” category, jurors awarded Yale’s new residential colleges to receive the highest honor for its “sizable, meaningful, thoughtful, and well-executed” design. UVA’s Caplin Theater received honorable mention in the “Building Additions or Adaptive Reuse” category, with positive remarks regarding its thoughtful siting and transformation of the quad.

To see the full list of award recipients, please visit SCUP’s Excellence Awards Program page.

University of Virginia's Ruth Caplin Theater

Architizer A+ Award for 11th Street Bridge Park

We are thrilled to announce that OMA+OLIN’s 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington, DC has been named a winner of the 2018 Architizer A+ Awards! The project was selected by jury decision from entries spanning more than 100 countries around the world and will be featured in the upcoming edition of A+Architecture: The Best of Architizer, published by Phaidon. We are proud to share this accolade with our incredible team of collaborators, including DDOT, Building Bridges Across the River, WRA, OMA, and many more:

For more information and to view other winners and finalists, visit the A+ Awards Winners Gallery.

Skip Graffam Elevated to ASLA Fellow

We are thrilled to announce that our Partner and Director of Research Skip Graffam is one of 31 distinguished professionals elevated this year to the American Society of Landscape Architects' Council of Fellows. Skip’s global award-winning work balances the unique needs of each site, the people who will use it, and the environment as a whole. He fosters the integration of input from communities, governments, designers, engineers, scientists, and other collaborators to create enduring public spaces that ignite social engagement and enliven living and cultural systems.

ASLA will formally recognize its 2018 Fellows at the ASLA 2018 Annual Meeting and EXPO, October 19–22, in Philadelphia. For additional information, visit the ASLA Council of Fellows webpage.