Masonry Magazine February 1981 Page. 30
Musical Arts Building, Bowling Green State University. Architect: Bauer, Stark & Lashbrook. Mason contractor: Mosser Construction Co.
Masonry Institute of N.W. Ohio Presents Design Awards
A fire station in Monroe, Mich. and a university building in Bowling Green, Ohio were selected winners in the third Honor Awards Program for Excellence in Masonry Design sponsored by the Masonry Institute of Northwestern Ohio in cooperation with the Toledo Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
The winning projects were: Fire Station No. 3, Monroe, Mich., and the Musical Arts Building at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Both buildings are of loadbearing masonry design, the fire station being a one-story structure of 2,800 sq. ft. and the college building a three-story complex of 120,000 sq. ft.
The Monroe fire station, completed in June, 1980, is on North Custer Rd. at Veterans' Park, adjacent to the Raisin River. The building's walls are composed of earth-tone over-sized brick with 4-in. and 6-in. concrete block and an insultated cavity. The building features a step design embodying an L-shaped masonry canopy frame as its dominent and unifying element. Other design details include smaller L-shaped arches "to give an illusion of transparency," the use of indented walls to create a triangular recess to break up the building's mass, and horizontal corner window bands.
The Musical Arts Building at Bowling Green State University is a series of three-story buildings clustered around a landscaped courtyard that eventually will become an outdoor amphitheater. The result is a loadbearing system that utilizes the masonry walls as structure as well as facade.
Exterior walls are made up of 8x 8-in. panel brick, a 2-in. insulated cavity, and 8-in. -in. scored concrete masonry units. The exterior brick also is used for interior walls and floors in public areas of the complex. Where necessary for sound insulation, cores of the concrete masonry units were filled with sand.
Design details include angled brick and walls, masonry fins to shade windows, angled metal roofing and a cantilevered entrance canopy. The project was completed in 1979.
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Fire Station No. 3, Monroe, Mich. Architect: P. D. Pharmakidis, AIA.
Accepting awards for the design and construction of the Musical Arts Building at Bowling Green State University are (from left) Charles H. Stark III, AIA, president, Bauer, Stark & Lashrook, Toledo, the architect: Roland Y. Engler, AIA, university architect, and Robert G. Wiler, president, Mosser Construction Co., Fremont, the mason contractor. Making the presentation are Frank Comte (second from right), chairman, Masonry Institute of Northwestern Ohio, and James Rooney, AIA, president, Toledo Chapter, American Institute of Architects.