
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 15, 1993                   TAG: 9305170240
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: SANDRA BROWN KELLY STAFF WRITER
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ARCHITECTS' CHOICE

Roanoke's newest parking garage, Century Station, was one of five projects cited this week by the Blue Ridge Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

The six-story structure next to the landmark No. 1 fire station got an honorable mention, as did a project that doubled the size of Back Creek Elementary School in Roanoke County.

Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern Inc. of Roanoke designed the garage, which is on Church Avenue. Sherertz, Franklin, Crawford, Shaffner Inc., also of Roanoke, was architect of the school.

Hayes, Seay took two other awards, including the top honor, for renovation at the College of William and Mary. An auditorium at Lake Junaluska, N.C., won the firm a second-place merit award.

Also receiving a merit award was Donald Sunshine's addition to the 140-year-old Patrick County retreat owned by Walter and Sally Rugaber of Roanoke. Sunshine is a Virginia Tech professor.

Blow Memorial Hall at William and Mary in Williamsburg was a $4.4 million conversion of an old gymnasium into a state-of-the-art facility that included a telecommunications center. The facade had to meld with its historic setting.

The upgrading of the 1913 Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska, the United Methodist Church's center in North Carolina, involved upgrading the structure and an addition of a multipurpose room and a deck.

Century Station, the parking facility in downtown Roanoke, uses a gabled tower to echo the tower on the 85-year-old brick fire station, with which it had to blend.

The architects' chapter gives awards every two years. There were 21 entries this year, comparable to the total two years ago, but only half as many entries as in years when construction was booming, said Robert Groth, chapter spokesman.

Judges were Francis Guffey of Charleston, W.Va., vice president of Paul D. Marshall & Associates and a vice president of the American Institute of Architects; Phil Shive, president of his own firm in Charlotte, N.C.; and John Spencer, head of the department of architecture at Hampton University in Hampton.

by CNB