Masonry Magazine June 1978 Page. 22
ARA Design Award Winner
Carson Pirie Scott Department Store
Orland Square Shopping Center, Orland Park, Illinois
Ten architectural firms from across the United States were designated design winners at the recent award competition sponsored by the Society of American Registered Architects (ARA) at its national convention in Houston, Texas.
Pictured here is the first place winner in projects between $1 million and $5 million-the Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store in the Orland Square Shopping Center, Orland Park, III. It was designed by the Chicago architectural firm of A. Epstein & Sons, Inc.
The two-story facility adjoins one of the four sides of the shopping mall. Because of the rolling terrain, two of the facades are one story high, with the major facade being two stories. The corners of the building are curved for emphasis and to provide corner planting areas. The brickwork is sculptured by the use of projecting and regressing corbels to add interest to the otherwise windowless facade.
A buff/ivory colored glazed brick was used with special shapes designed to accomplish the corbeling, retaining the exposed glazed faces. Of special note is the treatment of night lighting by means of corner vertical and roof-edge horizontal light strips. The total building area is 162,500 square feet.
The mason contractor for the project was Crouch Walker Corporation of Chicago.
John Pankovich, ARA, awards chairman, said he was pleased with the number and variety of entries. "They were of the highest caliber and reflected a genuine concern in practical design and conservation of energy, something that designers and developers in this country have to seriously confront in the future," he said.
"In designating these award winners, we hope to call attention to projects that reflect excellence in function, aesthetic satisfaction, and fine execution."
Judges for the design competition were: Donald Geitz, ARA, Orange Village, Ohio; Bernard Lyon Frishman, F.ARA, Silver Spring, Md.; David Washington, ARA, Rockaway, N.J., and John Perry, associate professor, College of Architecture, University of Houston.