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LA DALLMAN wins 68th Progressive Architecture Award for the transformation of a Historic Grain Elevator

2021-03-26T18:36:00-04:00

LA DALLMAN Architects was recently named as one of five winners of the 68th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards by Architect Magazine for 2021. Their proposal for the transformation of the Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin was selected from a total of 125 commissioned, yet unbuilt, entries that best exemplified recent trends in "community engagement, environmental stewardship, and equitable access to services''. With this in consideration, the jury of Koray Duman of Büro Koray Duman, Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, and Daimian Hines of Hines Architecture + Design through a blind review found LA DALLMAN’s entry to be a great embodiment of community design.

Redesign of the Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator. Credit: LA DALLMAN

Originally built in 1901 the Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator was once a marker at one end of the great agricultural economy that transformed the midwestern territories into America’s breadbasket. It is primarily from this farming ...

Jennifer Bonner's award-winning Office Stack reimagines the perception of mid-rise office design

2019-02-27T13:51:00-05:00

A growing household name within the profession and in academia, Jennifer Bonner's whimsical and highly technical design approach has enabled her to create and re-work traditional design methods. Her creative practice, MALL, is a compilation of playful approaches to "ordinary architecture." The name itself is an acronym with its own flexible meaning, similar to Bonner's design process. By focusing on everyday materials and familiar architecture motifs, the Alabama native architect seeks to perceive and portray architecture through whimsical discourse.

Best Sandwiches by Jennifer Bonner, MALL. Image by Adam DeTour

Office Stacks - Picnic Model by Jennifer Bonner, MALL. Image by Adam DeTour

Recently a winner of the 2019 Progressive Architecture Award, Bonner used her original project study, Best Sandwiches to help create her award-winning project Office Stack. The architectural stack may seem like a conventional building process. However, Bonner allows for each layer of the structure to ...