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Corner Greer & Associates Inc. won honors for the firm’s design of Joplin High School’s Franklin Technology Center.
Corner Greer & Associates Inc. won honors for the firm’s design of Joplin High School’s Franklin Technology Center.

AIA Springfield honors work in China, Joplin

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The Springfield chapter of the American Institute of Architects awarded top design honors to a Joplin firm and a group of local architects working in China during its annual AIA Springfield Design Awards, held May 5 at Randy Bacon’s Monarch Art Factory.

Out of 34 applicants, judges on the professional jury of industry peers bestowed two Honors Awards to Joplin High School’s Franklin Technology Center designed by Corner Greer & Associates Inc. and the Arts Plaza in Suzhou Industrial Park, China, designed by Drury University, Arts Group and Atelier Hay.

The professional jury also issued three merit awards: Missouri State University’s Pummill Hall and Davis-Harrington Welcome Center, both designed by Dake Wells Architecture Inc.; and MSU’s O’Reilly Clinical Health Sciences Center, designed by Cannon Design Inc.

Professional jury members were Frank Harmon, Frank Harmon Architect; Erin Sterling Lewis, In Situ Studio; Sara Queen, North Carolina State University; Don Kranbuehl, Clark Nexson; and Suzy Cash, Frank Harmon Architect.

The public jury of community members selected six projects for its Public Recognition Award: a second pair of awards for MSU’s Pummill Hall and Davis-Harrington Welcome Center, both designed by Dake Wells; First Home Bank in Mountain Grove, designed by Dake Wells; Springfield Public Schools Sherwood Elementary, designed by Sapp Design Associates Architects PC; the Joplin Public Library, designed by Sapp Design Associates and OPN Architects Inc.; and a case study residence, designed by Arkifex Studios LLC.

The public jury comprised Dave Robertson, president of the Springfield Contractors Association; Todd Lowrey, associate professor in the Department of Fine & Performing Arts at Drury University; Tim Smith, Springfield’s deputy city manager; Paige Oxendine, program coordinator for The Network; and Mike Kromrey, executive director of the Watershed Committee of the Ozarks.

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