{"id":6833,"date":"2020-11-13T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T15:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=6833"},"modified":"2020-11-13T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T16:10:45","slug":"montgomery-county-based-naiop-awards-of-excellence-projects-help-planners-realize-neighborhood-design-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2020\/11\/montgomery-county-based-naiop-awards-of-excellence-projects-help-planners-realize-neighborhood-design-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery County-Based NAIOP Awards of Excellence Projects Help Planners Realize Neighborhood Design Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Through our regulatory, master planning and policy efforts, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montgomeryplanning.org\/\">Montgomery County Planning Department<\/a> is working to emphasize design excellence in our urban, suburban and rural communities. That is why we are excited to support award-winning developments in Montgomery County that are helping us to realize neighborhood design goals set by communities in our area master plans. This year the DC\/MD chapter of NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association for developers, owners and investors of office, industrial, retail and mixed-use real estate, recognized seven projects from Montgomery County at their 18th Awards of Excellence on October 14.<\/p>\n<p>We at Montgomery Planning are just as proud of these projects as the winners themselves. We know that design excellence is an important tool for attracting the best and brightest to our county \u2013 residents, businesses and visitors. Having our neighborhoods, public spaces and buildings reflect the highest quality designs is so important to us that in 2015, we launched the biennial comprehensive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/planning\/design-excellence\/\">Design Excellence initiative<\/a>. The program has since grown to include a design awards competition, upgraded design guidelines, a design advisory panel and a greater emphasis on design excellence through our project review process.<\/p>\n<p>View <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2019-2020-Design-Awards-GWFinal.pdf\">recent winners of design awards from around Montgomery County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Design Efforts Bearing Fruit<\/h3>\n<p>As the amount of available land for development in Montgomery County is shrinking and building densities in our communities are increasing, design excellence is becoming increasingly important. These development challenges present a greater need to create attractive, safe and sustainable places to live, work and play while maintaining a wide range of uses, building types and places to recreate and enjoy our county\u2019s environmental and aesthetic beauty.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of the developments that won this year\u2019s NAIOP awards and the number of winners from Montgomery County is proving that our efforts toward design excellence are bearing fruit. We are seeing a high level of design excellence within our county through the creation of a strong public realm derived from exceptional architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Our own Planning Director Gwen Wright served as a member of the jury along with Barbara Byron, planning director of Fairfax County, VA; Karl Moritz, planning director for the City of Alexandria, VA; and several leaders in the development, construction and commercial real estate sectors.<\/p>\n<h3>Majority of Categories Focused on Design<\/h3>\n<p>Although there were more than 16 awards categories for the NAIOP awards, 11 directly addressed design excellence in residential, office and commercial architecture. Seven of the design awards were for Montgomery County projects. The winner for \u201cFirm of the Year\u201d was Clark Construction Group, which is headquartered in Bethesda, MD, and was the lead contractor for our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ncAhYiwMdjw&amp;ab_channel=MontgomeryPlanning\">new Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission\u2019s Wheaton Headquarters building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>JBG Smith Has Multiple \u201cBests\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>The big winner of this year\u2019s NAIOP DC\/MD Chapter Awards of Excellence was JBG Smith\u2019s 4747 Bethesda Avenue office tower in Bethesda, MD, which Shalom Baranes Architects designed. This building won for \u201cBest Office over 150,000 square feet,\u201d \u201cBest of Best Interiors\u201d and \u201cBest Interiors over 75,000 square feet.\u201d<br \/>\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-6841\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-108-0 ml-slider-pro-2-56-0 metaslider metaslider-responsive metaslider-6841 ml-slider ms-theme-_theme_1601499156\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"JBR\" data-height=\"534\" data-width=\"800\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_6841\">\n        <ul id='metaslider_6841' class='rslides'>\n            <li aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-0'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/4747-Bethesda_high-res-ext-scaled-800x534.jpg\" height=\"534\" width=\"800\" alt=\"Exterior view of 4747 Bethesda office tower\" class=\"slider-6841 slide-6844 msDefaultImage\" title=\"4747 Bethesda\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">JBG SMITH, 4747 Bethesda Avenue<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <li style='display: none;' aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-1'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/4747BethesdaInterior02-800x534.jpg\" height=\"534\" width=\"800\" alt=\"Lobby of 4747 Bethesda office tower\" class=\"slider-6841 slide-6845 msDefaultImage\" title=\"4747BethesdaInterior02\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">JBG SMITH, 4747 Bethesda Avenue<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>The massing of this building mediates between the tall volumes of buildings along Wisconsin Avenue and the pedestrian scale of a new plaza at the intersection of the Capital Crescent Trail and the Bethesda Purple Line terminus. The intricate convex steel cladding grid, colored in bronze, adds a sense of complexity to the tasteful glass curtain wall of the building. This building respectfully fits within the context of surrounding buildings and changes in color and appearance with different lighting conditions each day. The simplicity and reverence to detail of the interiors is relaxing, inviting and enlivens the street.<\/p>\n<h3>Best Suburban Office, Two or More Stories<\/h3>\n<p><div id=\"metaslider-id-6848\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-108-0 ml-slider-pro-2-56-0 metaslider metaslider-responsive metaslider-6848 ml-slider ms-theme-_theme_1601499156\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Trammell\" data-height=\"534\" data-width=\"800\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_6848\">\n        <ul id='metaslider_6848' class='rslides'>\n            <li aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-0'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MedicalPavilion-800x534.jpg\" height=\"534\" width=\"800\" alt=\"Exterior view of Medical Pavilion at White Oak Entry\" class=\"slider-6848 slide-6851 msDefaultImage\" title=\"MedicalPavilion\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Trammell Crow Company, Medical Pavilion at White Oak Entry<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <li style='display: none;' aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-1'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MedicalPavilionSubOff02-800x534.jpg\" height=\"534\" width=\"800\" alt=\"Aerial view of Medical Pavilion at White Oak Entry\" class=\"slider-6848 slide-6852 msDefaultImage\" title=\"MedicalPavilionSubOff02\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Trammell Crow Company, Medical Pavilion at White Oak Entry<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>The second big winner of the evening was Trammell Crow Company\u2019s Medical Pavilion at White Oak Entry, which CallisonRTKL Architects designed. The building won for \u201cBest Suburban Office, Two or More Stories\u201d and for \u201cBest Real Estate Transaction Tenant Lease Over 20,000 square feet.\u201d This seven-story medical office building is adjacent to the new Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center in Silver Spring, MD, and helps frame the new Healing Way Street that is one of the new entry ways into the future Viva White Oak mixed-use community.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Best Multi-Family Project in Maryland<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_6838\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6838\" class=\"wp-image-6838 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TheEscher-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior view of the Escher mixed-use building\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TheEscher-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TheEscher-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TheEscher-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TheEscher-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/TheEscher.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SK+I Architecture, Escher (in City of Rockville)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The winner for the \u201cBest Multi-Family Project in Maryland\u201d was The Escher in the Twinbrook neighborhood of Rockville, MD, which SK+I Architecture designed. This contemporary, mixed-use building has transformed a vacant site near the Metro station. It frames existing streets and a new paseo that separates the six-story building from a block of townhouses surrounding a new public plaza. A colorful glass bridge connects the corridors of the apartment building and frames a large interior landscaped courtyard. The bridge gives emphasis to the primary building entry and is a backdrop to the paseo plaza. Ground-floor units enter directly onto the paseo and help to activate the street.<\/p>\n<h3>Best Institutional Facility<\/h3>\n<p><div id=\"metaslider-id-6855\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-108-0 ml-slider-pro-2-56-0 metaslider metaslider-responsive metaslider-6855 ml-slider ms-theme-_theme_1601499156\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Trammell\" data-height=\"534\" data-width=\"800\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_6855\">\n        <ul id='metaslider_6855' class='rslides'>\n            <li aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-0'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Universities-at-ShadyGrove-800x534.jpg\" height=\"534\" width=\"800\" alt=\"aerial view Universities at Shady Grove Biomedical Sciences &amp; Engineering Building\" class=\"slider-6855 slide-6861 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Universities at ShadyGrove\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Universities at Shady Grove Biomedical Sciences &amp; Engineering Building<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <li style='display: none;' aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-1'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/shady-grove_exterior-800x534.png\" height=\"534\" width=\"800\" alt=\"exterior Universities at Shady Grove Biomedical Sciences &amp; Engineering Building\" class=\"slider-6855 slide-6862 msDefaultImage\" title=\"shady-grove_exterior\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Universities at Shady Grove Biomedical Sciences &amp; Engineering Building<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <li style='display: none;' aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-2'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/shady-grove_website_interiors_atrium-and-classrooms-1-800x534.jpg\" height=\"534\" width=\"800\" alt=\"interior Universities at Shady Grove Biomedical Sciences &amp; Engineering Building\" class=\"slider-6855 slide-6863 msDefaultImage\" title=\"shady-grove_website_interiors_atrium-and-classrooms (1)\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Universities at Shady Grove Biomedical Sciences &amp; Engineering Building<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>The winner for the \u201cBest Institutional Facility\u201d was the Universities at Shady Grove Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Building, which Cooper Carry Architects designed with Lake\/Flato Architects. This LEED Platinum building is one of the most sustainable laboratory buildings in the country and includes a central atrium space with tiered classrooms and glass-enclosed labs that promote an open and clear view to the faculty and students in action. Expressive wood and metal details in the interior give a sense of scale and comfort to the building\u2019s inhabitants while the brick and glass exterior opens to the greater campus and is sympathetic to adjacent masonry buildings.<\/p>\n<p>We extend a warm congratulations to the winners of this year\u2019s awards. It takes a host of residents, business owners, civil servants, architects and developers to help us build great communities in Montgomery County. Thank you for helping us raise the quality of design throughout the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Through our regulatory, master planning and policy efforts, the Montgomery County Planning Department is working to emphasize design excellence in our urban, suburban and rural communities. That is why we are excited to support award-winning developments in Montgomery County that are helping us to realize neighborhood design goals set by communities in our area master plans. This year the DC\/MD chapter of NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association for developers, owners and investors of office, industrial, retail and mixed-use real estate, recognized seven projects from Montgomery County at their 18th Awards of Excellence on October 14.<\/p>\n<p>We at Montgomery Planning are just as proud of these projects as the winners themselves. We know that design excellence is an &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2020\/11\/montgomery-county-based-naiop-awards-of-excellence-projects-help-planners-realize-neighborhood-design-goals\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6873,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}