HGA Wins 2011 SCUP Award for Visual and Performing Arts Village at Cabrillo College

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By The Hoyt Organization -

Aptos, CA – May 3, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — HGA Architects and Engineers has won a 2011 SCUP Excellence in Planning Merit Award for the Visual and Performing Arts Village at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. The Art Village won in the District or Campus Component category.

Part of a campus master plan, the Visual and Performing Arts Village raises the visibility of the Cabrillo College’s growing theater, music and visual arts programs. Located across Soquel Drive from the original campus, the eight-acre Arts Village orients five architecturally compatible buildings around a series of courtyards, reinforcing a sense of campus community and promoting interdisciplinary interaction among students and faculty. The 126,000-square-foot, pedestrian-oriented complex includes a Theater Arts Building with a proscenium theater and studio theater; Music Building with recital hall; 3-D Art Studio; 2-D Art Studio; and Arts Division Forum with lecture hall, seminar room and offices.

The jurors included Reed Kroloff, director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Collette Creppell, AIA, LEED AP, director of campus planning at Tulane University, New Orleans; Carl Elefante, FAIA, LEED AP, principal at Quinn Evans Architects, Washington, D.C.; Jennifer Jones, RLA, ASLA, principal with Carol R. Johnson Associates in Boston; David Lenox, AIA, university architect and director of campus planning and design at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; Krisan Osterby, RLA, senior campus planner with Perkins+Will in Minneapolis; and Jim Richards, FASLA, co-founder and principal of TOWNSCAPE Inc, Texas.

The project team included HGA Architects and Engineers; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, theater and audio visual consultant; Arup Acoustics, acoustical consultant; and Bogard+Kitchell, construction manager.

The Society for College and University Planning SCUP Awards recognize excellence in planning, design and implementation of higher education projects. HGA previously won a SCUP award for the Uptown Performance & Visual Arts Campus at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, in 2008.

About HGA Architects and Engineers
HGA is an integrated architecture, engineering and planning firm that helps prepare its clients for the future. With offices in Minneapolis and Rochester, Minnesota; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento, California; and Washington DC, the nationally recognized firm has developed expertise in the healthcare, corporate, arts, community, higher education, and science/technology industries since 1953. HGA’s culture for interdisciplinary collaboration, knowledge sharing and design investiga¬tion enables its clients to achieve success with responsive, innovative and sustainable design. Visit www.HGA.com or follow the firm on Facebook or Twitter.

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