ELGIN, IL -- Building Stone Institute has announced the recipients of the Tucker Design Award for 2008. It also announced the winner of the James Daniel Bybee Prize for 2008.

Tucker Design Awards

Established in 1977, the Tucker Design Award honors those who achieve the criteria of excellence in the use of natural stone in concept, design, and construction. The award is a prestigious biennial architectural design award recognized in both the building and landscape industries.

"This year's recipients represent some of the finest building and landscape projects throughout North America utilizing natural stone," said Margie Lechowicz, Executive Vice President of Building Stone Institute. "Tucker Design Awards celebrate the innovation and vision that designers bring to their projects by specifying and using natural stone building materials." Awards will be presented Friday, May 9 at the Tucker Design Awards ceremony, being held at The Fairmont, Dallas, TX. Distinguished jurors for this year's Tucker Design Awards are: Randall C. Gideon, FAIA, Co-Chariman, CEO, and founding Principal of Gideon Toal, Fort Worth, TX, elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects; and Lance C. Melton, AIA, VP Wiginton Hooker Jeffry Architects, Dallas, TX.

Distinguished national and international projects receiving the Tucker Design Award for 2008 include:

Arizona

Campbell Cliffs Tucson, AZ

Design by: Line and Space, LLC, Tucson, AZ

Stone Supplier: Dunbar Stone Company, Ash Fork, AZ

Stone Installer: Line and Space Construction, LLC, Tucson, AZ

Colorado

Opus 22 Genesse, CO

Design by: Marpa Design Studio, Boulder, CO

Stone Suppliers: Stone Wholesale, Fort Collins, CO and Albert Frei, Henderson, CO

Stone Installers: Marpa Design Studio, Boulder, CO

Illinois

Litowitz Residence Glencoe, IL

Design by: Liederbach & Graham Architects, Chicago, IL

Stone Suppliers: Connecticut Stone Supplies, Milford, CT; Cleveland Quarries, Amherst, OH; Evergreen Slate Company, Inc., Granville, NY; Galloy and Van Etten, Chicago, IL; and Jay Sackett Associates, Skokie, IL

Stone Installers: Jacks Masonry, Crystal Lake, IL and Masonry by Fernando, Rondout, IL

New York

Bailey Plaza, Cornell University Ithaca, NY

Design by: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, PC, New York, NY

Stone Suppliers: Connecticut Stone Supplies, Milford, CT; New York Quarries, Inc., Alcove, NY; and Tompkins

Bluestone, Hancock, NY

Stone Installers: Ithaca Stone Setting, Ithaca, NY and Syrstone, Inc., North Syracuse, NY

Ohio

Park East Synagogue Pepper Pike, OH

Design by: Mark Simon, FAIA, with Edward J. Keagle, AIA, of Centerbrook Architects and Planners, Centerbrook, CT

Stone Supplier: Jerusalem Gardens Stone Works, Ltd., Beit-Shemesh, Israel

Stone Installer: SPS & Associates, Hudson, OH

Texas

Frisco City Hall Frisco, TX

Design by: Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, LLP, New York, NY

Stone Suppliers: Cold Spring Granite, Cold Spring, MN and TexaStone Quarries, Garden City, TX

Stone Installer: Dee Brown Inc., Dallas, TX

Virginia

The Community Chalkboard: A Monument to Free Expression Charlottesville, VA Design by: Siteworks, Charlottesville, VA

Stone Supplier and Fabrication: Buckingham Virginia Slate Company, Buckingham, VA

Stone Installer: Empire Granite Company, Richmond, VA

Vermont

Atwater Commons, Middlebury College Middlebury, VT

Design by: KieranTimberlake Associates, LLP, Philadelphia, PA

Stone Suppliers: Vermont Structural Slate, Fair Haven, VT; Owen Sound Ledgerock, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada; and Granit Aurelien, Tremblay, Alma, Quebec, Canada

Stone Installer: J.B. Stone, St. Albans, VT

Washington

Seattle City Hall Seattle, WA

Design by: Joint Venture- Bassetti Architects, Seattle, WA / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Seattle, WA

Stone Suppliers: Guinet-Derriaz, Lyon, France and Stone N.V., Londerzell, Belgium

Stone Installers: Columbia Stone, Inc., Portland, OR and Rubenstein’s Contract Carpet, LLC, Seattle, WA

Canada

Ridge House Rural Canada

Design by: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Stone Distributor: Quarra Stone Company, LLC, Madison, WI

Stone Installer: Rob Niezien Masonry, Inc., Canada

Stone Quarry: Truffer AG Natursteinwork, Vals, Switzerland

James Daniel Bybee Prize

Additionally, the James Daniel Bybee Prize has been awarded to Henry N. Cobb, FAIA, in honor of the legacy of his work and excellence in the use of natural stone. Cobb will receive his award at the Tucker Design Awards ceremony being held Friday, May 9 at The Fairmont, in Dallas, TX.

Henry N. Cobb is a founding principal of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Architects, with offices in New York City. Throughout his career, Mr. Cobb has coupled his professional activity with teaching, as lecturer and design critic at numerous schools of architecture, including those at Princeton, Columbia, and Yale Universities. From 1980 to 1985, he served as Studio Professor and Chairman of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he still teaches occasionally as a visiting lecturer. In 1992, he was Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

Mr. Cobb is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received a number of awards recognizing his achievements as both architect and educator, including the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture and the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. Mr. Cobb was educated at Harvard College (AB), and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (MArch). He has received honorary degrees from Bowdoin College and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Built works for which Mr. Cobb has been responsible as design partner include: Place Ville Marie, Montreal (1962); John Hancock Tower, Boston (1976); Portland (Maine) Museum of Art (1983); Arco Tower, Dallas (1983); Fountain Place, Dallas (1986); Library Tower, Los Angeles (1989); Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA (1995); John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Boston (1998); College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (2000); Tour EDF at La Défense, Paris (2001); National Constitution Center, Philadelphia (2003); Center for Government and International Studies at Harvard University (2005); Hyatt Center, Chicago (2005); and the Regional Headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City (2008). Among his current works in progress are Torre Espacio in Madrid; headquarters expansion of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris; New Seat of the Lombardy Regional Government in Milan; World Headquarters of Goldman Sachs in New York City; Butler College Residence Halls at Princeton University; and 880 West Broadway, an office tower in San Diego.

Named in honor of James Daniel Bybee, a long standing member of Building Stone Institute (BSI), the Bybee Prize is awarded to an individual architect for a body of work executed over time and distinguished by outstanding design and the use of natural stone. Past winners have included Cesar Pelli, Lawrence Halprin, Malcolm Holzman, and Paul Frieberg.