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Leers Weinzapfel Associates News

Sep 25, 2017
Franklin County Justice Center, Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA

photograph © Brad Feinknopf
Franklin County Justice Center Building in Greenfield
This Massachusetts architecture practice recently completed the Franklin County Justice Center in Greenfield, MA, the latest in a series of the firm’s award-winning courthouses and civic structures. Located on Main Street in a historically attentive town, the 109,080-sqft, $66M project combines the renovation of the 1930s Franklin County Courthouse with a new addition.

May 2, 2017
America’s First CLT Academic Building at UMass Amherst

photo © Albert Vecerka / Esto
CLT Academic Building at UMass Amherst
New Design Building Unites the Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Building Technology Departments Under One Sustainable Roof

Leers Weinzapfel Associates Designs Archive

15 Oct 2012
Dudley Police Station, Boston, MA, USA

photo © Anton Grassl / Esto
Dudley Police Station
The building is rated LEED GOLD. The building just picked up its third architectural award…an Honor Award from the Boston Society of Architects.

17 + 14 Aug 2012
East Regional Chilled Water Plant at The Ohio State University, USA

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OSU East Regional Chilled Water Plant
Construction Underway, Receives Award Recognition
Iconic Infrastructure Design Integrates Landmark Form with Function
Leers Weinzapfel Associates has announced that construction has begun on its new East Regional Chilled Water Plant at The Ohio State University (OSU), in Columbus, Ohio. The iconic structure will introduce a large, critically needed infrastructure facility to campus while maintaining an important green space at its edge, contributing a gateway to a new campus entry. Shortlisted for both a 2012 American Architecture Award (The Chicago Athenaeum) and a 2012 World Architecture Festival Award (Future Projects, Infrastructure), the design will be on exhibit at the WAF from October 3-5, 2012, at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, where the award winners will be announced.
Completion: 2014
Construction Cost: approximately $32M (including equipment)
Architect of Record: GBBN architects, Cincinnati, OH

Leers Weinzapfel Associates – Key Projects

Featured Buildings by Leers Weinzapfel Associates, alphabetical:

19 Jun 2012
Museum of Medical History and Innovation Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2012

photo : Anton Grassl @ Esto Photographics
MGU Medical History and Innovation Museum
Massachusetts General Hospital Paul S. Russell MD
Museum of Medical History and Innovation
Boston, Massachusetts
The new Massachusetts General Hospital Paul S. Russell MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation is located on a prominent site at the entry to its downtown Boston campus and showcases the medical achievements and culture of the hospital and its place in the community.
The museum reflects the history and evolution of medicine and surgery as well as the science and research that support their development. The new 8,000 sf building includes reception and orientation space, a core exhibition gallery, changing exhibition gallery, media and theater space, hands-on learning and simulation lab, hospital archives with adjunct spaces, and related administration space. The museum features an occupiable green roof and pergola, copper exterior enclosure and copper colored fritted glass.

30 May 2012
Taunton Trial Court, Massachusetts, USA
2012

photo : © Anton Grassl / Esto
Taunton Trial Courthouse Building
Award Marks Second AIA/AAJ Nod for Firm Dedicated to Civic Design Excellence
Leers Weinzapfel Associates’ Taunton Trial Court in Taunton, MA, is the recipient of a 2012 American Institute of Architecture/Academy of Architecture for Justice (AIA/AAJ) Justice Facilities Review (JFR) Program Award of Excellence Merit, an accolade it also received in 2008 for its US District Courthouse in Orlando. Since 1997, a JFR jury of three architects and three professionals from the courts, detention/corrections, and law enforcement fields have annually selected and then published the finest examples of progressive justice planning and design in the country.

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Location: 75 Kneeland Street, Boston, MA, 02111, USA

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American architecture office based in Boston, MA.

About Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Recipient of the American Institute of Architects Firm Award, Leers Weinzapfel Associates is a Boston-based practice whose work lies at the intersection of architecture, urban design, and infrastructure. Founded by Andrea Leers and Jane Weinzapfel, the firm is noted for its inventiveness in dramatically complex projects.

Museum of Medical History and Innovation, Boston, Massachusetts:

photo : Anton Grassl @ Esto Photographics

Architects of the innovative Paul S. Russell, MD, Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital, the practice has received more than sixty-five design awards for projects including the Harvard New College Theatre/Farkas Hall (formerly Hasty Pudding), the University of Pennsylvania Chiller Plant, the MBTA Operations Control Center in Boston, and the new Taunton Trial Court in Taunton, Massachusetts. A monograph on the firm’s work, Made to Measure: The Architecture of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, was published in 2011 by Princeton Architectural Press.

Taunton Trial Court, Massachusetts, USA:

photo : © Anton Grassl / Esto