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Article: Something to build on: ; W.Va., Md. firms win awards for state architectural designs
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- April 19, 2009
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A huge research facility that towers over the Interstate near
Fairmont, a private home on an organic farm in the Eastern
Panhandle, and a corporate headquarters that will never be built.
As wildly divergent as these building projects might seem, they
share this: They captured the top honors Saturday at the annual
design awards banquet of the state chapter of the American Institute
of Architects.
Perhaps not coincidentally, all three were designed as "green"
projects, two with the goal of earning LEED (Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design) certification.
You can't miss the first winner if you've ever driven to
Morgantown for, say, a WVU football game. The 250,000-square-foot ...