The People love The Son of a Butcher! ArchitectureWorks was honored to receive the People’s Choice Award at the 2022 AIA Alabama Excellence in Design Awards for The Son of a Butcher. This award is voted on by our peers attending the state conference on architecture, and we’re pretty sure they were as focused on the amazing selection of meats, seafood, and specialty food items on display as they were on this renovation of a nondescript 60’s era building in the Pepper Place District of Birmingham. Our design employs a simple palette of stainless-steel fixtures and utilitarian tile finishes in subtle contrast to custom white oak cabinetry and finish carpentry, providing a complimentary backdrop to the shop’s high-quality products. The simple presentation of this retail shop belies the complex mechanical, plumbing, and food handling requirements more typically found in much larger industrial facilities. Thank you AIA Alabama and congratulations to the other recipients!

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Photography: Cary Norton

ArchitectureWorks was announced as one of the winners of the Birmingham Business Journal’s 2022 Building Birmingham Awards for our work at the Jones Valley Teaching Farm Center for Food Education! Thank you to Birmingham Business Journal for listing our project as one of the most transformative projects changing the face of the Magic City and congratulations to the other recipients.

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A hub for park visitors, K-12 students, rotating researchers, and park staff, the Gulf State Park Learning Campus offers classrooms, laboratories, flexible meeting spaces, and lodging options. ArchitectureWorks received an AIA Alabama Design Honor Award for the Learning Campus’s eco-focused, open-air design.

Built on a previously developed area in an evergreen forest, this LEED Silver awarded project demonstrates sustainable building practices and cultivates stewardship through interactive environmental programming. The site design of the Campus encourages visitors to park the car and use a network of pedestrian trails, creating various experiences amid native longleaf pines and live oaks. The Student Lodge, equipped with 64 bunk beds and 2 private rooms, and a Community Restaurant are a short walk-in-the-woods away from a collection of Classrooms and a 200-seat Auditorium. Connected by boardwalks and characterized by screened porches nestled under the trees, the Classrooms and Auditorium provide a variety of learning opportunities. Together, they form Gulf State Park’s primary learning destination for exhibits and formal research.

Learn more here: bit.ly/GulfStateParkLearningCampus

Photography: Cary Norton (exterior) and Valor Hospitality (interior)