Masonry Magazine December 1987 Page. 37
Mountain Creek Manor Retirement Home, Chattanooga, designed by Selmon T. Franklin Associates, Architects, Inc.
Charles Crawford and Sons, Harrison, was the mason contractor. In listing their reasons for selecting this structure, the judges said, it "utilizes a blend of masonry material types and colors as building forms to provide a building with residential scale, rich in texture, color and interest, with a sense of permanence appropriate to the building type." The structure required 56,300 regular concrete masonry units, 26,850 architectural concrete masonry units and 180,000 brick equivalent units.
Crescent Center Memphis, designed by Nathan Evans Pounder & Taylor in cooperation with Morris Architects.
Greer Architectural Products Inc. was the mason contractor. Commenting on the structure, judges said: "The Crescent Center's eloquent and striking geometry is beautifully expressed through its glass and polished granite facade. The integrated use of masonry products throughout the interior lobby spaces and site development reflect the designers' commitment to a unified concept. Careful attention to stone jointery and accent detailing complete a very successful architectural statement."
Tennessee Architectural Awards
Seven Tennessee buildings took top honors for their designers in 1987 Excellence in Masonry Architectural Awards program sponsored by the Masonry Institute of Tennessee and endorsed by the Tennessee Society of Architects. A panel of Kentucky architects, headed by Frank H. Dries, Jr., AIA, and composed of Jeffrey T. Pearson and Charles Barnhart, III, AIA selected the winners. The Excellence in Masonry Architectural Awards program is sponsored annually by MIT to recognize the outstanding use of masonry products in Tennessee.
Riverfront Apartments, Nashville, designed by Tuck Hinton Everton Architects with McIntosh-Murphy Co., Inc. the mason contractor.
Commenting on the facility, judges said that the project "was a very creative and unique solution, utilizing the elements of the existing site, that had supposedly outlived their usefulness, to blend with the new building elements and forms. It's an overall excellent project, responding to its immediate environs, with its own character. The structure used some 21,500 split-faced block and 26,000 scored block, all in a buff color.
Central Laboratory Building was a joint venture between Thomas Miller and Burkhalter Hickerson with masonry by General Masonry Company.
Judges said the building "is a good example of excellent design principles applied to a unique problem and potentially mundane architectural project. The architect took the restrictions of the existing structure and the requirements of the program and used them to their advantage in the solution." A modern smooth face brick with an iron hue was selected for this structure because of the warm earth tone color and the way it reflected light.