Tucker Awards Open for 2014

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CHESTERTOWN, N.Y. – Entries are now being accepted for the Building Stone Institute’s 2014 Tucker Design Awards.

The biennial awards honor works that exhibit excellence in concept, design, construction and use of natural stone. All installations — exterior building, landscape, interior design, ornamentation or restoration of commercial, institutional or residential projects – are considered in the selection process.

The entry deadline is this Aug. 16, with presentation of awards next June.

The competition is open to Architects, landscape architects, interior designers, restorers, students and other design professionals are encouraged to enter. Suppliers and installers of natural stone materials used in a project may submit entries on behalf of the designer.

Award jurors review each project for its overall unique, innovative and impressive qualities rather than its fit within a particular category. Juror for the 2014 awards include Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune; Duncan G. Stroik, Principal, Duncan G. Stroik Architect LLC in South Bend, Ind.; and Peter Lindsay Schaudt, FASLA FAAR, Partner, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects in Chicago.

While the entry deadline is Aug. 16, submission binders will be due on Oct. 4, with the design jury session planned for Oct. 25.

Also, the 2014 awards will include a student element to advance forward-thinking, innovative concepts for the use of natural stone in design.  Competition details for this segment of our award presentation are being developed with consultation from the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture in Chicago. 

The 2014 Tucker Design Awards program will be held at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple in Oak Park, Ill. on June 25, 2014. This daytime event will begin with a late morning awards presentation followed by a celebratory luncheon. 

Go here for the call for entries, the entry form and submission guidelines.

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