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2022 AIA Birmingham Design Awards Highlight | Brock’s Gap Brewing Company | Black Design Architecture, LLC.
Located in the community of Trace Crossings in Hoover, Alabama, Brock’s Gap Brewing creates a neighborhood landmark inspired by the area’s history. “Brock’s Gap” is a century old railway cut-through of a nearby mountain which transported coal, iron ore and limestone into Birmingham in the early 20th century. The building’s 3 color material palette was inspired by these materials and its industrial feel harkens to the industrial boom and significance of railway transport.
The building is dropped into the sloping site resting in the hill with long, cantilevered overhangs to shade the glass walls and create comfortable outdoor spaces. The landscape retains the wooded pines on the parkway so that the building partially reveals itself. But upon entry, the building is fully discovered, stepped into the hillside and anchored by a large gathering and concert lawn. The brewery is the first in the City of Hoover and provides 10,000 SF of outdoor gather space, an outdoor bar, a loading dock that doubles as a stage, and food truck access.
Learn more here: bit.ly/BrocksGapBrewing
Have you registered for our annual sponsor and member appreciation tradeshow!? Don't miss out on one of our favorite events of the year! 🎉
Now's your chance! Click the link in bio to join us for lunch, door prizes, & vote on the 2023 slate of officers.
FREE for AIA Birmingham Members | $25 for Non-Members
2022 Design Awards Highlight | Blackridge Clubhouse & Amenities | Nequette Architecture & Design
The Blackridge Clubhouse and amenity structures, located on an idyllic lake in Hoover, Alabama, are inspired by the rustic WPA National Park Lodges and architecture built during the 1930s. Complete with a resort-style infinity pool, entertainment spaces with state-of-the-art appliances, and lakeside boat access, this clubhouse serves as a tranquil place for the community to gather, relax, and enjoy the outdoors.
Learn more here: bit.ly/BlackridgeClubhouse
2022 AIA Birmingham Design Awards Highlight
Biso Collective by
This renovation of a historic train depot houses Biso Collective, a collective of SaaS companies. Biso uses its experience in creating and scaling SaaS businesses to provide resources and guidance to its partners.
Biso believes that a healthy culture is key to sustainable success, so their space was designed to be inspirational and multi-purpose, and is located in an area of downtown Birmingham that is designed to support start-ups and small businesses known as the Switch Innovation District. This area is the epicenter of entrepreneurship in Birmingham and was thoughtfully selected as the ideal location for Biso Collective.
The project included restoration of the exterior, the addition of a covered entry at the parking area, and a full interior renovation.
Learn more here: bit.ly/3yF8svT
We are one month away from our annual Sponsor & Member Appreciation Tradeshow! Join us at Alabama Power Thursday, November 10th!
FREE for AIA Birmingham Members | $25 Non-Members
RSVP online at the link in our bio.
2022 Design Awards Highlight | Birmingham Intermodal Facility | Studio 2H Design, LLC
The Birmingham Intermodal Facility is the city's consolidated transportation hub which serves Greyhound and Megabus intercity buses, the BJCTA's MAX buses, Amtrak trains, and a dedicated airport shuttle.
Located between Morris Avenue and Railroad Park in downtown Birmingham, the Intermodal Facility represents a major public investment to revitalize a 40 year underutilized and blighted area in Birmingham. Birmingham's AJCTA Bus Station at the Intermodal Facility has become a vibrant, active place for our City's growing transportation network.
Learn more here: bit.ly/BhamIntermodal
The Alabama Center for Architecture's Annual Golf Tournament is only one week away!
Tickets for Beers, Balls, & BBQ are still available online at bit.ly/ShopACFA!
2022 Design Awards Hightlight | Auburn University, Horton-Hardgrave Hall | Architects
The new Horton-Hardgrave Hall support the growing graduate needs of the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, as well as building on the college's existing graduate structure. The building includes classrooms; a flexible studio lecture hall; an innovation lab; student study and team areas; various conference and reception style areas; and administrative offices for the college's MBA program.
The building exterior creates a flagship appearance that complements the adjacent Lowder Hall on Magnolia Avenue, while also balancing this classic Auburn University character and image with a more expansive façade of glass facing the courtyard between the two buildings to promote a visual connection between them. The building is organized around a main two-story atrium space and central stair that serve as the “heart” and living room for the entire College of Business as a dynamic, active space that provides identify for the college.
Learn more here: bit.ly/HortonHall
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our WIA Lunch & Learn yesterday! We hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did.
Special thanks to our rockstar speakers Addie Harchelroad, Page Ledbetter, & Suchithra Prabhu, AIA!
2022 Design Awards Highlight | Artisan Flats | .dimension.architecture
Located on Fifth Ave S. this project will take over the historic textile building that once housed American Bakeries Co. cracker plant for 30 years until it was reopened as ABSCO Fireplace & Patio in the 1980s. The project design originally was intended to utilize the existing building. However, after analysis of the existing building, the structural system and other components did not allow for the feasible use of it for the project.
Artisan Flats will be a Class-A community located within walking distance of both Lakeview District and Pepper Place.
This project was awarded one of the 2022 Real Estate Deal of the Year by
Learn more here: bit.ly/ArtisanFlats
2022 AIA Birmingham Design Awards Highlight
Armour & Co. | Christopher Architecture & Interiors
The building was originally put into service at the turn of the twentieth century. Armour & Company owned and operated the building as a meat-packing facility for about 50 years as of 1951, but for the past 20 years the building has remained vacant. The roof had caved in, all the wood had rotted, and many walls had fallen in. It was an extensive process to build in creative ways as the building didn’t allow access for modern heavy machinery to remove all the debris. We utilized existing timber and brick by carefully culling and cleaning each piece to reintroduce as many original materials as possible into the final design. A unique challenge we faced on the exterior was bringing new elements to compliment the existing.
Armour & Co. is home to twenty apartments, two custom office spaces, and will soon have a completed speakeasy, restaurant, and coffee shop. Each of these spaces create a vibrant community where people can have coffee in the morning, dinner and drinks at night, and retire to their apartment.
Learn more here: bit.ly/ArmourandCo
2022 AIA Birmingham Design Awards Highlight | 2200 Magnolia |
The historically accurate renovation of the 1920’s building at 2200 Magnolia preserves many exterior features that remind us of its stories last and celebrates the richness of natural light reaching deep into the wide floor plate through broad steel windows and skylights.
Garage doors, interior ramps, brick walls, gabled steel trusses, wood decking and sky lights were all preserved are are enriched by the clean and simple interior elements that float within the umbrella of the historic space.
Learn more here: bit.ly/2200Magnolia
The 's 26th Annual Golf Tournament is right around the corner! There is still time to register a team of four or as an individual player. ⛳️
Thursday, October 13th at Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail of Oxmoor Valley. Register online here: bit.ly/ShopACFA
The ACFA Golf Tournament is hosted in hopes to raise money for its educational programs & student scholarships.
For more information on sponsorship opportunities, visit alcfa.org/support/golf/ OR email
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2022 AIA Birmingham Design Awards Highlight | 2100 Morris | Fifth Dimension Architecture & Interiors
2100 Morris Avenue is the renovation of a former historic building located on historic Morris Avenue. The existing space was a former law office that had built its offices in the building sometime in the mid to late 1980s. The interior of the building underwent a complete interior demolition process where the existing building structure was exposed.
The demolition of the existing interior uncovered that the original mass timber framing of the building was still intact. Fifth Dimension Architecture designed utilizing the mass timber framing to be exposed. The office spaces were designed to allow for the exterior windows to allow natural light into all of the space. The design team also incorporated skylights system utilizing solar tubes to provide indirect natural lighting on the upper-level flex work areas. Steel, wood, and natural stone materials to create a modern and luxurious office space.
Learn more here: bit.ly/2100Morris
The American Institute of Architects Architecture Billings Index is an economic indicator for nonresidential construction activity, with a lead time of approximately 9-12 months. Investment groups, media outlets, firms of all sizes, and business leaders rely on this monthly economic indicator to assess business conditions and predict the market.
The ABI is derived from AIA's Work-on-the-Boards survey, which has gathered data on shifts in billings from architectural firm leaders for over 20 years. This data is a trusted tool used by the AEC industry and other firms to predict and track movements in the market.