This annual honor seeks to recognize "the single most beautiful building or other structure" built in the metropolitan Boston area in the past 10 years.
Nominations are invited for the 2012 Harleston Parker Medal, which is presented to "such architects as shall have, in the opinion of the Boston Society of Architects...completed the erection for any private citizen, association, corporation or public authority, the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument or structure within the limits of the City of Boston or of the Metropolitan Parks District" (Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Cambridge, Canton, Chelsea, Dedham, Dover, Everett, Hingham, Hull, Lynn, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Milton, Nahant, Needham, Newton, Quincy, Revere, Saugus, Somerville, Stoneham, Swampscott, Wakefield, Waltham, Watertown, Wellesley, Weston, Weymouth, Winchester, Winthrop and Woburn).
Please send your nomination to psmith@architects.org or to:
Harleston Parker Medal,
Boston Society of Architects,
290 Congress St., Boston, MA 02210.
All submissions are due by 4:00 pm on February 24.
The 2011 jury may include practitioners, educators and other professionals.
To be eligible, a project:
* May be of any scale, program or level of public visibility;
* May be a rehabilitated building or structure;
* Must have been completed between December 31, 2001, and December 31, 2011.
You may nominate your own or any other that work you believe merits consideration. Projects that have been honored in past years and work by jurors or by their firms are ineligible.
Recent recipients
* 2010 New Cambridge Public Library (William Rawn Associates with Ann Beha Architects)
* 2009 Parker Community Boathouse (Anmahian Winton Architects)
* 2008 Genzyme Center (Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner; House & Robertson Architects; Next Phase Studios)
* 2007 Institute of Contemporary Art (Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Perry Dean Rogers Partners)
* 2006 Wang Campus Center, Wellesley College (Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects)
* 2005 Building H/College of Computer and Information Sciences and Residence Hall, Northeastern University (William Rawn Associates)
* 2004 Simmons Hall, MIT (Steven Holl Architects and Perry Dean Rogers Partners)
* 2003 Honan-Allston Branch/Boston Public Library (Machado and Silvetti Associates)
* 2002 Northeastern University Multi-Faith Center (Office dA)
* 2001 Boston Public Library renovation (Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott)
* 2000 Davis Art Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College (Rafael Moneo and Payette Associates)
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