LifeServe Community Blood Center and Springfield Art Museum receive AIA Kansas City Excellence in Design Awards

BNIM is honored to have received two awards at this year’s AIA Kansas City Excellence in Design Awards in Kansas City, MO, on October 24th. LifeServe Community Blood Center, a new office space and blood donation center in Johnston, IA, received the Project of the Year Award, and Springfield Art Museum, a renovation and expansion located in Springfield, MO, received a Merit Award for Concept Design. This year’s jury, included leaders from Höweler + Yoon, Merge, and Hacin, shared the following comments for both projects:

LifeServe Community Blood Center — “We thought the plans were extremely well organized [with a] very efficient layout. Even things like truck bays were very elegantly screened and located. The flow from indoor and outdoor makes it feel like a real community space, a community building, welcoming and well detailed. We unanimously appreciated the elegance of the solution around what is a humble program.”

Springfield Art Museum — “The jury found it extremely compelling, the idea of a museum as almost like a pavilion that sort of binds together what we understood to be a number of existing buildings. [The] horizontal pavilion, the integration with landscape, the delicate colonnades, the rich kind of warm soffit conditions, all these things contributed to the sense that this museum would be an incredibly elegant and sophisticated place to visit.”