Fordham Law School’s building has been awarded the International Architecture Award by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The building is among new architectural projects from 43 countries that were recognized by the largest and most extensive global architecture awards program in the world.
Hundreds of submissions were received for this year’s annual Global Awards Program from architecture firms from across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and the Americas. A final shortlist of 370 projects was presented to a jury of Italian architects and critics.
The award honors new skyscrapers, commercial buildings, urban plans, private residences, and real estate projects that achieve a high standard of excellence in design, construction, planning, and sustainability and promote the best practice in all types of real estate development for the private and public sectors, including new skyscrapers, high rises, corporate and institutional buildings, commercial projects, bridges, airports, city planning, restorations and adaptive reuse, community projects, religious and civic buildings, and interiors.
“The selected new buildings and urban planning projects in this year’s edition of the International Architecture Awards demonstrate a new and growing sensitivity to true human-based design and a sympathetic approach to sustainability and the environment,” said Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, museum president of the Chicago Athenaeum.
Opened in fall 2014, Fordham Law’s new building was designed by world-renowned architecture firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
The 2016 jury was held in Milan during the Venice Architecture Biennale and consisted of prominent Italian architects and architecture journalists and critics.