NEW ENGLAND AIA AWARDS

The rectangular volume of Kroon Hall by Michael Hopkins wears one great roof, pitched up to a broadly curving ridgeline. This new home for Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in New Haven, Connecticut, achieves both a welcoming form and a high level of sustainable design.

Designed by Hopkins Architects of London, with Centerbrook Architects and Planners as executive architect, Kroon Hall is expected to earn a Platinum LEED certification.

PEOPLE AND PLACES

KlingStubbins in West Windsor Township, New Jersey — CamargoCopeland Architects in Dallas, Texas — National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C. — Walter Gropius in Chicago, Illinois — HOK in Orlando, Florida — Frederick Fisher and Partners in Pasadena, California — OCV Architects in New York, New York — PGAL in Chantilly, Virginia...

MAGGIE'S CENTRE GETS 2009 STIRLING PRIZE

On a difficult corner site along a busy street, Maggie's Centre in London provides an uplifting sanctuary in which cancer patients and their families and friends can receive support and information. The building's bold orange masonry wall beckons visitors into daylit spaces shielded from the street beneath a floating roof canopy.

This humane health support facility designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has received the Stirling Prize for 2009.

HIGH TENSION OVER BIG TIMBER

Late in 2007, storm-driven rains in southwestern Washington sent floodwater, mud, and tons of logging debris crashing into homes and farmland downstream of the Chehalis River. Numerous landslides destroyed wide swaths of mountain habitat, caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, and downed an estimated 140,000 truckloads of timber — much of it on land owned by the Weyerhaeuser Company, the state's largest private timberland owner.

AIA MARYLAND DESIGN AWARDS

More than 30 years ago, as an art student in Baltimore, George Holback would occasionally convince his brother, a police officer, to help him gain entry to the city's vacant American Brewery (then called the Wiessner Brewery).

Once inside the unusual 1887 industrial structure, with its three dramatic pagoda-like towers, Holback would draw or take pictures; he cites it as inspiration for becoming an architect.

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