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Concise floor plans helped meet the developer's programmatic requirements on narrow, irregular lots, while also allowing space for covered porches on the street facades. Exterior trim details include roof brackets, porch posts and brackets, pedimented window and door surrounds, and extra-deep casings.

New Urbanist Pool

Caliza Pool is the first communal space built in the New Urbanist development of Alys Beach, Florida. The facility was designed by Khoury & Vogt Architects, the recipient of a 2008 Palladio Award for another building in the community, the Fonville Press cafe and bookstore.

The open-air pool evokes the Greek concept of an agora, or civic center, with a series of stoae, or open colonnaded spaces, surrounding a raised stone terrace that contains the main pool. Lyrical touches include a roof terrace that looks out to the Gulf of Mexico and a pool equipment storage shed encased in a fountain of water. The facility also includes a dining area and lap pool with two bath houses.

Graceful Farm

For Willow Grace Farm in Dover Plains, New York, G. P. Schafer Architect, PLLC explored ways to incorporate sustainable approaches within a framework of traditional residential design.

The design and detailing of the new 8,500-square-foot (790-square-meter) house were inspired by the late-18th-century Dutch colonial houses of the Hudson Valley, and by a specific nearby farmhouse, purchased by the clients just prior to its demolition, That farmhouse yielded a variety of materials that were incorporated into the new house, including wide-plank floorboards, hand-hewn beams, and door hardware.

The layout of the new house was designed around window orientation to maximize daylighting and natural ventilation. Climate control strategies range from porches, which protect French doors from extreme summer sun, to insulated glazing and high-efficiency multizone heating and cooling systems.

The architects manipulated proportion, scale, and detail to maintain the overall character of the house in keeping with the 18th-century models while accommodating the larger size and more generous proportions that the clients sought.

Farms and Estates

Four other designers received 2009 Palladio Awards: John B. Murray Architect, LLC, for a pool pavilion on an estate in Greenwich, Connecticut; Rill & Decker Architects, PC, for the renovation of and 6,500-square-foot (600-square-meter) addition to a Georgian-colonial manor farmhouse in The Plains, Virginia; Fairfax & Sammons Architects, PC, for the renovation of a 30,000-square-foot (2,800-square-meter) estate in Palm Beach, Florida (not pictured here); and James Doyle Design Associates, LLC, for landscape design at Old Mill Farm, also in Greenwich.

The 2009 Palladio Awards were presented on March 11 as part of the Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

The jury included Robert Baird, vice president, Historical Arts & Casting; Richard W. Cameron, partner, Ariel–The Art of Building; Mike Jackson, FAIA, chief architect, Preservation Services Division, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency; Ralph T. Jackson, FAIA, principal, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott; Stephen A. Mouzon, AIA, CNU, LEED AP, principal, The New Urban Guild; Elizabeth Corbin Murphy, FAIA, principal, Chambers, Murphy & Burge Restoration Architects, Ltd.; Sandra Vitzthum, AIA, principal, Sandra Vitzthum, Architect, LLC; Dinyar Wadia, principal, Wadia Associates.

The editorial staff of Traditional Building and Period Homes magazines, produce the Palladio Awards: Will Holloway, Martha McDonald, Lynne Lavelle, and Annabel Hsin.   >>>

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