PAYETTE Projects Receive Architizer A+ Special Mentions

We are pleased to announce that two of our Architizer A+ Awards submissions have been selected as Special Mentions for the Architizer Plus Categories. The Plus awards are designed to celebrate architecture’s relevancy through categories that highlight the issues confronting the world. Architizer, the world’s largest and fastest growing website for architecture has launched the definitive architectural award program with 115+ categories and more than 350 jurors. With entries received from 100 countries, the Special Mention distinction is awarded to work that exhibits remarkable achievement and that scored in the top 15% of entrants.

The monumental Alexandria Staircase at 75/125 Binney Street was submitted to the Details: Architecture + Stairs category, which celebrates, “innovative features and material applications.” The staircase, inspired by the future tenant’s corporate logo, is a prominent sculptural focal point within the atrium. A minimalist approach was critical in designing the details of the staircase, with seamless surfaces and no exposed hardware or fasteners. Even though the staircase is dramatically suspended within the vast open space of the atrium, walking on it is comfortable and intimate. The red spiral staircase is a bold gesture, set against the building’s very rational contrasting backdrop.

The new Maternal and Neonatal Health Center at St. Boniface Hospital in Haiti was submitted to the Architecture + Humanitarianism category, celebrating “those projects and architects that use their skills and passions to bring vital hope to communities in need.” The new Maternal and Neonatal Health Center St. Boniface Hospital provides advanced health care and a training space for maternal a neonatal care in Haiti’s southern peninsula. This project required a total rethinking of healthcare design and its execution. Instead of being bound by regulations, institutional standards and best practices, it was defined by a completely different set of norms; medical practices influenced by a culture with deep roots and construction means and methods derived from very limited available resources to withstand natural catastrophes.

We are pleased these projects have been recognized by the Architizer+ awards.