The Chestnut Residence Receives AIA Birmingham Honor Award
The renovation of this 1950’s brick rancher in Leeds, Alabama is designed to connect to the surrounding forest through large expanses of glass, a gracious screen porch, and welcoming entry terraces. The new spaces sit within the original footprint, reducing site disturbance and retaining the mature forest close to the house. The existing exterior brick […]
Carlos Hernandez, AIA receives 2022 AIA Alabama Young Architect Honor Award
ArchitectureWorks is proud to announce that Carlos Hernandez, AIA received the 2022 AIA Alabama Young Architect Honor Award! This is the highest award bestowed upon a young AIA Member whose leadership, service, and contributions have directly benefited the profession and AIA Alabama. Carlos is being honored for his dedication to AIA and Alabama Center for Architecture volunteer […]
The Son of a Butcher receives AIA Alabama People’s Choice Award
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 […]
Jones Valley Teaching Farm Center for Food Education receives a Birmingham Business Journal’s Building Birmingham Award
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 […]
Restored Flagg Mountain Tower marks start of the Pinhoti Trail
Flagg Mountain is the centerpiece of Weogufka State Park and the start of the Pinhoti Trail. Atop Flagg Mountain is a 40-foot tall Civilian Conservation Corp era stone Lookout Tower. After documenting the existing tower, the interior stairs were replaced, allowing visitors unparalleled views of Alabama’s great forests. ArchitectureWorks collaborated with many partners on this […]
M2 offers exceptional hub for Birmingham workspaces
M2 is a 70,000 sf modern workplace serving enterprises and entrepreneurs operating in light manufacturing, production design, and other creative industries. Gathering organizations, established companies, startups, and individuals that might not otherwise work together and give, M2 provides a place and process to get things done. Anchored by the Ghost Train Brewing Company’s second location, […]
Gulf State Park Learning Campus receives AIA Alabama Design Honor Award
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 […]
New pavilion at Alabama’s Turkey Creek Nature Preserve expands education options
Turkey Creek in north Jefferson County is home to not only one, but three endangered species of fish, including one found nowhere else on the planet. Meanwhile, the nature preserve just north of Birmingham that bears the same name is drawing ever-larger crowds who come to enjoy the creek’s pristine waters, the preserve’s hiking and […]
Lake Pavilion awarded at AIA Birmingham Design Awards
The Lake Pavilion was recognized with a 2020 Merit Award by AIA Birmingham. Although the ceremony was a bit different this year, there was still a stellar lineup of projects. Congratulations to all of the other recipients! At the Lake Pavilion, one hundred and fourteen year-old loblolly pines were given a new purpose after a […]
This pavilion is the ideal spot for an Alabama lake day
When a family was looking to update their lakefront property, they turned to Birmingham firm ArchitectureWorks to help them better utilize their space. With their children now grown, the family found themselves using their lakeside pool less and less. So, they decided to fill it in to make room for a pavilion where the entire […]
