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2015 CHARTER AWARDS GRAND PRIZE Iberville Offsites / P4 2015 CHARTER AWARDS GRAND PRIZE Iberville Offsites / P4 GRAND PRIZE / STUDENT Cities of a New Port Metropolis / P6 CHARTER AWARDS UCLA Weyburn / P8 Code SMTX: Tactical Urbanism Intervention and Project Kickoff / P9 Hunters View / P10 Pearl Brewery Redevelopment Master Plan / P11 Transit Oriented Development Revitalization / P12 Aldershot / P13 Virginia’s Capitol Master Plan / P14 30 Years of Scripps College Campus Stewardship / P15 Plan El Paso / P16 AWARDS OF MERIT Micro Lofts at The Arcade Providence / P17 Sullivan Station / P17 The Oval / P18 Arise / P18 Beaufort County Multijurisdictional Form-Based Code/Land Development Code / P19 University of Texas-Pan American Campus Master Plan / P19 Luhe City Center / P20 Sulphur Dell / P20 Master Plan for the Town of LaFox, Illinois / P21 Visions for Lafayette / P21 Mixed-use, walkable neighborhood development, as defined by the Charter of the New Urbanism, promotes healthier people, places, and economies. The members of CNU and their allies create positive change in communities all over the world. They design and build places people love. The Charter Awards, administered The Charter identifies three major scales Charter Awards are given to projects annually by CNU since 2001, celebrate of geography for design and policy at each scale, and special recognition the best work in this new era of purposes. The largest scale is composed is reserved for the best projects at the placemaking. The winners not only of regions. The middle scale is made up professional and student levels. Honored embody and advance the principles of of neighborhoods, districts, and corridors. by the world’s preeminent award for the Charter—they also make a difference The smallest scale is composed of blocks, urban design, winners set new standards in people’s lives. streets, and buildings. for placemaking and community building. P1 2015 Jury Michaele Pride, AIA, NOM Marianne Cusato Michael J. Busha, AICP Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Jeanne Anthony Hank Dittmar Steve Maun Professor & Associate Designer, Author, Executive Director Founder and Principal Project Advisor Director Principal Dean for Public Outreach and Lecturer Treasure Coast Regional Duany Plater-Zyberk and Education & Outreach Hank Dittmar Associates LeylandAlliance and Engagement, School of Planning Council Company Department, AARP Livable Architecture and Planning, Communities Not Pictured: University of New Mexico Anna Lowder Founder and Principal City Loft Corporation P2 Founding Principal, Matter LETTER FROM THE JURY CHAIR Enriching Lives with Urban Design & Architecture The Charter of the New Urbanism, This year’s Grand Prize, Iberville For the second year in a row, a College deserves special attention, has reached an important signed 19 years ago, remains an Offsites, demonstrates the low-cost hands-on Tactical representing thirty years of threshold that allowed the jury to inspiring blueprint for improving movement’s engagement with Urbanism effort was honored with stewardship—careful planning and focus on built work, but there were communities all over the world. existing communities, restoring a Charter Award. Code SMTX in design, one building at a time—an also many excellent designs we The 27 Charter principles offer a affordable beautiful houses to San Marcos, Texas, in a single day excellent example of sustainability, hope will return once they are visionary alternative to suburban three New Orleans neighborhoods, transformed the way citizens view making a place lovable and under construction. sprawl and urban disinvestment. as they continue to recover from their downtown, kicking off conserving the embodied energy Hurricane Katrina. a charrette to reform the of buildings. I hope you appreciate these In the 15th year of the Charter city’s zoning. winners and their outstanding Awards, the jury reviewed 99 Iberville is funded by HUD’s Choice The CNU Awards of Merit are placemaking, and that this year’s projects from many continents, Neighborhoods program, a Two more awards honor Texas outstanding in their own right and awards will encourage you to guided by the Charter principles. successor to HOPE IV, the communities: Plan El Paso, just as diverse. submit your efforts next year! Those principles’ potential to nationwide initiative to remake implementing the SmartCode in impact how people live was on full public housing. CNU achieved an eight square miles of the sprawling The student entries were of a high display in the submissions. This early victory in shaping the design city, and the Pearl District, an caliber, all worth examining for year’s awards highlight the many standards for HOPE VI. Choice industrial site renewed as a social their variety. The Student Grand ways that urban design and Neighborhoods is enabling New and economic powerhouse for Prize, Cities of a New Port architecture enrich people’s lives in Urbanists to continue their work San Antonio. Metropolis, addresses a global Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk a wide range of settings. with community improvement, so it economic issue, showing how a 2015 JURY CHAIR is no surprise that more than one Other winners include a transit- port city in Central America can be The best efforts are victories that award recognizes this program. oriented development in Long designed to function as a may not be obvious. Though Hunters View is the other, Island, New York; the reuse of a human-scale city. technically and politically difficult replacing deteriorated public military base in Aldershot, to implement, the designs triumph housing in San Francisco with a Hampshire, England; a plan to In CNU’s 23rd year, as a cofounder with beauty, exhibiting the neighborhood. These and other refine Thomas Jefferson’s state of the organization, I felt privileged extraordinary skill of CNU winners demonstrate the social capitol district in Richmond, to review with colleagues the designers and developers. equity contributions of Virginia; and two university campus accomplishments of New Urbanists New Urbanists. projects in California. Scripps around the world. Our movement P3 Grand Prize P4 Iberville Offsites TURNING BLIGHT INTO BEAUTY Firm: Kronberg Wall Architects Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Category: Block, Street, and Building This year’s Grand Prize winner “Historic preservation is too often seen provides affordable housing for as the domain of the affluent and white, moderate-income families, establishes but this project is relevant to the lives of new standards for green historic a significant number of underprivileged preservation, and strengthens a city people of color that are able to afford still climbing back from one of the historic homes in neighborhoods where nation’s worst natural disasters. they would otherwise be out priced,” noted Eric Kronberg, of Kronberg Wall Iberville Offsites restores vernacular Architects, the firm responsible for houses in stunning fashion across three Iberville Offsites. New Orleans neighborhoods: Treme, Central City, and the Seventh Ward. The The project uses green technologies team skillfully used state and federal like solar panels and innovative tax credit programs to renovate 46 insulation that does no harm to the houses for low-income and racially historic integrity of the houses, and diverse long-time residents. meets current accessibility standards. “It shows that it is possible to “Iberville is representative of so many rehabilitate homes on a large enough things that we are trying to do,” says scale that there is an immediate and architect and CNU cofounder Elizabeth significant economic impact that Plater-Zyberk. “Private initiative and creates affordable housing in the public support is skillfully combined.” process,” says Neal Morris, founder of Redmellon Restoration and Said Charter Awards juror Marianne Development, the developer. Cusato: “They’ve done all of the technical things, but the end result Iberville Offsites is Phase Two of is beautiful without aesthetic a project that has renovated more compromise.” than 100 houses as part of a federal Choice Neighborhoods grant. Choice Iberville Offsites does more than just Neighborhoods, the successor to house moderate-income families and HOPE VI, is designed to remake public keep tons of construction materials out housing using the principles of the of the landfill. It reknits the cultural and Charter for the New Urbanism—and social fabric of one of America’s great has produced two Charter Award cities, embodying the tenets of the Winners in 2015. Charter of the New Urbanism. Grand Prize Student P6 Cities of a New Port Metropolis HOW PORTS COULD BE CITIES AGAIN Until now, all major initiatives to create globalization will give way to more trade. Manufacturing neighborhoods two major train stations strategically The study of how Western civilization a port on the Atlantic Coast of Central localized manufacturing, and “free are integrated with financial districts. located to connect to the tram line and has built cities over time revealed America have failed to produce human- trade districts” in ports will cease to be Blue-collar workers labor side-by- within walking distance of a city center.” certain patterns of urban structure scale places due to the vast surface important. “Rather,” he believes, “the side with bankers, chefs, and fishing that have endured and provide today area required by modern hub-container whole city will be a place for free trade.” merchants—“All because everyone is The student used “organic design” to the platform for successful living, the facilities. Our Grand Prize student closer to the source… and gateway imagine their metropolis. “To design student reports. “Not only is this a winner is a counterproposal based on Cities of a New Port Metropolis uses a of trade.” a city in such a way that it may seem beautifully drawn project, it brings a the simple idea: Ports should grow block-and-street structure that extends like it grew over time, was one of the powerful theory of urbanism to life,” from real cities. to the waterfront, which is mediated In the project’s vision, transportation biggest lessons learned in this project. says Charter Awards jury member by public space or a hard edge such as is vital, and the plan maps major The study of port cities originally Hank Dittmar.
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