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City of Gainesville Beautification Awards

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On April 25, 2012, the City of Gainesville announced out the following Beautification Awards:

Institutional Facilities:

  1. A Nan Buddhist Temple –  Bob Taylor, AIA – Scherer Construction
  2. Gainesville Fire Station 8 –  Bentley Architects & Engineers, Inc. (Longwood, FL)
  3. Reichert House – William Brame, AIA,  Brame Architects

Commercial & Retail Businesses:

  1. Fletcher Executive Center – Bob Taylor, AIA – Scherer Construction
  2. Las Margaritas Mexican Restaurant – Ricardo Cavallino, AIA – Ricardo Cavallino & Associates
  3. O!O Garden Grill – Andrew Kaplan, Architect
  4. Shores Animal Hospital – Eugene Russell Davis, Architect
  5. Sunstate Federal Credit Union – John Donahue, AIA, Donahue Architecture
  6. Wendy/Willy’s Mexican Grill – DVA Architecture (Gaithersburg, MD)

Apartments & Condominiums:

  1. Archstone – Mac MacLean, AIA, Jim Vignola, AIA – Skinner Vignola McLean Inc.
  2. The Continuum – Design Collective (Durham, N.C.)
  3. Deco ’39 – Mac MacLean, AIA, Jim Vignola, AIA – Skinner Vignola McLean Inc.

Restoration, Revitalization & Adaptive Use:

  1. America Accounting & Tax Co. – Ricardo Cavallino, AIA – Ricardo Cavallino & Associates
  2. Almond’s Automotive – Stephen Bender, AIA
  3. Porters Gardens Subdivision – Karson & Associates (Northbrook, IL)

Facade Improvement:

  1. Blue Water Bay in downtown Gainesville – Eugene Russell Davis, Architect
  2. O’Reilly Auto Parts – Craig Schneider, AIA (Springfield, MO)

Uniquely Gainesville:

  1. Haile Homestead new Visitor’s Center – Bill Warinner, AIA – Aachen Designers

Outstanding Commercial:

  1. CVS on SW 13th Street – Stefano de Luca Architectural Services (Hollywood, FL)

Outstanding Institutional:

  1. Fine Arts Hall at Santa Fe College – Zeidler Partnership, Inc. (West Palm Beach, FL)
  2. Florida Innovation Hub at UF – Jack Ponikvar, Ponikvar & Associates
  3. GRU Eastside Operations – Bentley Architects & Engineers, Inc. (Longwood, FL)
  4. Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center – Cedric Christian, AIA – Flad & Associates
  5. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art – Kha Le-Huu (Orlando, FL)