Williams Blackstock Architects

Honor Award

The design for our architectural offices was based on respecting the integrity of the existing historical warehouse structure while developing a design that enhanced the firm’s creative process, efficiency and teamwork. Constructed in 1921 and added onto in 1940, the existing warehouse structure is not architecturally elaborate, but is a good example of warehouse development in this area occurring in the 1920s with load bearing brick walls, board-formed concrete floors and steel frame windows. The interior space was designed to preserve the panoramic view of the downtown Birmingham skyline and the historic railroad district while creating a modular space that facilitates collaboration and creativity among our project teams.

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Auburn Library

Merit Award

This 28,000 SF, $3.2 million public library was designed for a rapidly growing community that serves as the home of Auburn University. The building has an inviting entrance plaza that reaches out to the public from the major vehicular approach to the building. The façade is punctuated with a rotunda-style entrance element that extends through the interior of the building in the form of a tall, clerestory surrounded atrium lobby. The steel framed structure is wrapped in an attractive multi-colored brick and cast stone, which at night is accented with dramatic lighting to showcase the building as well as the extensive book collection, which is clearly visible to the public from the exterior. In 2005, Williams Blackstock received the Alabama Council of AIA Merit Award for the Auburn Library design.

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