Masonry Magazine March 1978 Page. 4
Troy Place, this month's cover feature, is located on Big Beaver Road at Coolidge in the burgeoning Detroit suburb of Troy, Mich. The complex consists of three (soon to be five) office buildings ranging in height from three to seven stories. More details are on the facing page.
Six Michigan "M Award" Winners Selected
Six building projects were named winners of the 1977 "M Awards" for excellence in masonry design in the third annual program sponsored by the Masonry Institute of Michigan in cooperation with the Michigan Society of Architects. The awards, all of equal value, went to:
Hulsing, Eriksson and Field Schools, three prototype elementary schools in the Plymouth/Canton Community School District designed by T.M.P. Associates, Inc., Bloomfield Hills.
Police-Justice Building, City of Wyoming, Mich., designed by Van Wienen Postema & Papke, Grand Rapids.
Remus G. Robinson Middle School, Detroit, designed by Sims-Varner & Associates, Inc., Detroit.
601 Washington Boulevard Building, Detroit, designed by Rossetti Associates/Architects Planners, Detroit.
Troy Place, a complex of office buildings in Troy, Mich., designed by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates, Inc., Detroit.
Webber Memorial Building, Harper-Grace Hospitals, Detroit, designed by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates, Inc., Detroit.
The winners were selected from 58 entries submitted by Michigan architectural firms and judged by a jury of architects from Atlanta, Ga. The architects of the winning projects, the building owners, and Masonry Institute-member mason contractors involved in the construction received the cast-bronze "M Awards" at a January 28 banquet in the Detroit Plaza Hotel.
For three of the architects, it was a repeat performance in the winner's circle. Rossetti Associates and Smith, Hinchman & Grylls each earned an award for the third consecutive year, while T.M.P. Associates won for the second time.
Among mason contractors cited, Smith-Santoro, Inc., Southfield, won two awards: for the Webber-Memorial Building and for one of the buildings in Troy Place. Other contractors cited were Cavanaugh & Soave, Inc., Troy, for the 601 Washington Boulevard Building: Kanfer Construction Company, Inc., Oak Park, for Troy Place; and Terry O'Neill Masonry Contractor, Southfield, also for Troy Place.
That made three awards each for Smith-Santoro and Cavanaugh & Soave (formerly Cavanaugh Construction) in the three years of the program.
The "M Awards" were presented by John A. Heslip, executive director of the Masonry Institute, and Arthur E. Nelson, AIA, president of the Michigan Society of Architects.
Ulrich Franzen, FAIA, New York City, served as the evening's keynote speaker. He introduced a new film, "Architects/Architecture," a look at current trends in architectural design by Franzen himself and several other nationally-known architects. Prints of the film then were presented to the deans of the architectural schools at the University of Michigan, Lawrence Institute of Technology, and the University of Detroit by Robert F. Ebeling, president of the Mason Contractors Association of America (MCAA), and Louis Weir, fifth vice-president of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen (BAC).
Also honored at the banquet were the winners of a Masonry Institute-sponsored design competition for students in the School of Architecture at Lawrence Institute of Technology, Southfield, Mich. continued on page 20