THA Architects Engineers receives
OUTSTANDING PROJECT Award and National Recognition
for the Flint Cultural Center Academy
Cleveland, OH – October 15, 2021-THA Architects Engineers (Flint, Ml) has received an OUTSTANDING PROJECT Award in LEARNING BY DESIGN Magazine’s fall 2021 Architectural and Interior Design Awards of Excellence. The Flint Cultural Center Academy (Flint, Ml) has been award recognized as a benchmark facility for its incorporation of next generation learning space design and planning. The built environment characteristics found in this project are worthy of replication by other educators and design professionals creating learning environments.
All awarded facilities in the Fall 2021 edition of LEARNING BY DESIGN have been peer-reviewed and juried. Projects such as the Flint Cultural Center Academy met or exceeded in meeting the six judging criteria of: Innovation, Community Needs, Interior Design, Sustainability, Functional Design, and Next Generation Learning. The jury looks for in each project unique qualities or new concepts that where successfully implemented to improve pedagogy, community wellbeing, and social equity through the design of facilities and its campus. LEARNING BY DESIGN’s distinguished fall 2021 jury of six education architectural design experts applauded THA Architects Engineers (Flint, Ml) for its accomplishment in designing the Flint Cultural Center Academy.
The Jury comments about this project included: “Ambitious project, the planning really seems to be about the learner. Strategic co-location with the Sloan Museum and the Flint School of Music allows the school to provide valuable exposure to hands-on learning while also taking advantage of arts and music facilities within the adjacent structures, Daylight finds it way into almost every space.”
LEARNING BY DESIGN, published in the Spring, Summer, and Fall each year circulates to more than 50,000 leaders at all levels of education-from early childhood and elementary schools, middle and high schools, career-vocational Education centers, and two and four-year institutions of higher education throughout the United States. To access the magazine’s digital edition, visit: www.learningbydesignmagazine.com
In the spring of 2022, LEARNING BY DESIGN will publish a new group of exemplary educational facilities. Additional content will focus on creating resilient environments, the use of wood timber for a primary construction framing, and fostering inclusive, safe, and equitable learning spaces for all communities.
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