EOP Wins Design Award from AIA Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky., September 20, 2013 — The AIA Kentucky announced winners of its design awards for 2013 at the annual Excellence in Architectural Design ceremony in Louisville. For the sixth consecutive year, EOP Architects took home an award.

This year's award recognizes EOP's design for the former Lexington Mall, dramatically changing it into the Richmond Road Campus of Southland Christian Church. 

Jury comments included, "Wow — a complete transformation of an unused eyesore."

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For more information and to view more images of Southland Christian Church, click here. 

AIA Kentucky Honors EOP with Citation Award

 

At its November regional conference, the AIA Kentucky presented the 2012 Honor Awards for Excellence in Architectural Design.  EOP was awarded a Citation for Excellence in Architectural Design for Urban Active at Polaris in Columbus, Ohio. 

“The Jury was very impressed with the interior spatial development, which suggested an exciting and enriching community environment.  The spatial and volumetric development inside enhances this sense of community, perhaps doing what trainers aspire to:  make exercise interesting.  It seems like a great place to see and be seen – would make me want to work out more.”

Click here to read more about the AIA Kentucky Honor Awards. 

For more information on EOP’s design for Urban Active at Polaris, click here.



Grocery Headquarters magazine features Shorty's

Since it opened in May, Shorty’s The Urban Mar­ket has become quite the local hotspot, draw­ing a wide range of down­town office work­ers, res­i­dents from nearby apart­ment tow­ers and his­toric Civil War Era-mansions and tourists. In its first six months, the EOP-designed adaptive reuse has racked up numer­ous awards and accolades including "Best New Store" by readers of Aces Weekly magazine and "Best Hotspot for Lunch." 

In addi­tion, the project won an Honor Award from the Ken­tucky Soci­ety of Archi­tects, a chap­ter of the Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Archi­tects, as well as the Blue Grass Trust for His­toric Preservation’s Clyde Car­pen­ter Adap­tive Re-Use Award for giv­ing an old build­ing new life as a chic urban busi­ness location.

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Herald-Leader announces EOP's AIA award-winning design

The AIA Kentucky Society of Architects recently presented building projects across the state with its annual Excellence in Architectural Design awards. EOP's design for Shorty's The Urban Market received the highest designation with an AIA honor award.

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UK College of Pharmacy Receives AIA Honor Award

The University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy Biological Pharmaceutical Complex has received an AIA Kentucky Honor Award.

The Honor Awards program of AIA Kentucky, the Kentucky Society of Architects, seeks to honor and bring to public attention distinctive works of architecture created by Kentucky architects. For over 46 years, the program has been dedicated to recognizing and applauding works of architecture exhibiting design excellence, and promoting public awareness and appreciation of the diversity, quality and scope of Kentucky Architecture.

The Kentucky Society's Honor Award is the highest professional honor bestowed upon a Kentucky architect by his or her peers, and it distinguishes the architect as one who is dedicated to making architecture the best it can be.

EOP Architects Named Winner of Innovative Architecture and Design Award

EOP Architects is the recipient of a 2009 Innovative Architecture and Design Award for their work on Urban Active Fitness - Taylorsville Road in Louisville, Kentucky. The award is one of only ten given annually to recognize innovative designs within the field of sports and recreation facilities. EOP Architects was the only architecture firm in the state of Kentucky to receive a 2009 award. The awards competition, sponsored by Recreation Management, is in its seventh year.

Urban Active – Taylorsville Road is a 67,364 square foot adaptive reuse project honored for its dynamic transformation from a vacant grocery store to a cutting edge fitness club. Centered on the concept of movement, this facility motivates its members to pursue lifestyles of health and fitness. “It is all about transparency and energy. A common theme that we have incorporated in all of the UA Fitness Centers has been to allow that energy not only to be shared internally but externally as well,” said Rick Ekhoff, design principal with EOP Architects. The judges of the competition particularly noted the merits of the bold architectural forms and the dramatic exterior transformation of this project.

Read the story published in Recreation Management.

EOP Wins Two Design Awards

EOP Architects recently received two design awards from the Kentuckiana Masonry Institute. Main + Rose Mixed Use Development was awarded the "M" Honor Award for Best Overall Use of Masonry Design; the Allied Health Sciences Center at Gateway Community and Technical College's Edgewood Campus was given the CMU Award of Honor. An awards luncheon was held on April 23 at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville.

Urban Active Turfway Wins AGC Build Kentucky Award

EOP Architects, Brett Construction Company, and Global Fitness Holdings were recognized at the annual Associated General Contractor Build Kentucky Awards on February 7. Urban Active Turfway, located in Florence, Kentucky, was given one of three awards for buildings in the $5 - $10 million category. The AGC Build Kentucky Awards honor projects that "stand out due to their excellence in construction, project management, innovative design, conceptual development, and their positive impact on the community." Congratulations to everyone on the project team!

More images of Urban Active Turfway can be seen here.

Main+Rose Wins AIA Kentucky Design Award

On October 10th, EOP Architects was awarded one of nine AIA Kentucky Chapter awards for outstanding design. Main & Rose is a mixed used facility with three floors of residential lofts and commercial space on the ground level including Dunkin Doughnuts, Wachovia Securities and Jimmy John’s Subs. Located at the busy corner of Main Street and Rose Street in downtown Lexington, this development is one of the most successful downtown loft properties. Read more about the AIAKY awards and other award-winning projects at the Courier Journal.

Main+Rose Lofts Wins Construction Design Award

Congratulations to Phil Holoubek & everyone involved at Main and Rose, LLC for being awarded the 2008 New Construction Award by the Lexington Board of Architectural Review and the Historic Preservation Commission.

Main+Rose, located in Lexington, KY, is a downtown mixed-use urban infill development designed by EOP.