OCTOBER 24, 2002, Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design has organized the fifth annual "American Architecture Awards ®" as a way in which to honor new architecture designed in the United States.

American Architecture Awards 2002 jury: Ms. Olof Orvarsdottik, Architect, City of Reykjavik, Planning Department Mr. David Kristjan Pitt, Architect Mr. Thorarinn Thorarinsson, Architect, City of Reykjavik, Planning Department Hundreds of submissions for this Awards program were received from architecture firms across the United States. Forty-one projects have been selected and are honored with the 2002 "American Architecture Award." A future exhibition slated to open at The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design in 2003 will give the public an opportunity to discover and appreciate the best new American Architecture of our time. In October, a jury of distinguished Icelandic architects chose 41 corporate headquarters, skyscrapers, institutions, sports and transportation facilities, interiors, urban planning projects, airports, and residences for awards. The jury for the American Architecture Awards was held under the auspices of the Icelandic Association of Architects in Reykjavik, Iceland. The jury members were prominent members of Iceland's architecture and design community. This year's awards program honors new (2000-2002) corporate, institutional, commercial, and residential architecture, built in the U.S. or abroad by a U.S. architectural firm, both built and unbuilt projects alike. International firms headquartered outside the United States were eligible to submit projects built only in the United States. Two of the selected works in this year's program were built and designed in foreign countries-Guangdong Olympic Stadium in Guangzhou, China and Bank Headquarters, Marina Bay in Singapore. Other winning projects across the United States-from a spa in Sedona, Arizona to an Airtrain Rail Station in Queens, New York-reflect the diverse architectural thinking found in contemporary American design today. The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design founded "The American Architecture Awards" in 1998 as a way in which to draw significant international attention to new buildings and planning projects being built and designed in the United States by the best of America's architecture offices and firms. The program has a unique educational mission and public profile with the intent of promoting and celebrating American design and American architecture to a national and international audience.

For more information, contact Julie Reichert-Marton at 847/895-3950, or Fax 847/895-3951. The Chicago Athenaeum is now accepting applications for the AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS competition. Look for the FAX IN application.

2002 AWARD WINNERS

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