Students Take Top Honors in Monsters of Design Competition

Reprinted Courtesy of Kansas City Star.

Projects as diverse as a foot splint and a middle school received top honors Friday in the annual Monsters of Design awards competition for young area architects and designers.

The awards were scheduled to be announced at a First Friday event Friday night in the Crossroads Arts District. The competition was judged by an out-of-town panel of design professionals, including the editor of Metropolis magazine.

The winners:

Graphic design: A.L. Huber rebranding, a top-to-bottom redo of company graphics, by Clifton Alexander and Chase Wilson.
 
Student (two top awards): A pediatric dental office interior design by Colin Curry (B Arch, 2008). Also, a concept for a tiny urban park, converting a single on-street parking space, by Kimberly Kolkovich (M IAPD, 2008).

Interior architecture: Remodeling of a windowless health clinic in the Federal Building, by Sarah Godfrey (B IAR, 2005), Andrea Regnier and Kristine Sutherlin.

Object design (two winners): A night splint for patients with plantar fasciitis, a foot ailment, by Jonathon Kemnitzer, Brad Satterwhite and Jon Taylor. Also, liturgical furniture for St. Matthew Apostle Catholic Church, by Ryan Townsend.

Architecture: A theoretical project connecting office towers with vertical green spaces, by Daekwon Park. According to competition organizers, the jury felt that “using the air space between buildings was thought-provoking and genius from a real-estate perspective.”

Group project (two winners): Design for a new Blue Valley Middle School No. 10, by Andrew Van Leeuwen and Brian Murch (B Arch 2000). Also, a single-family residence in Tokyo, by Chris Ford and Matt Goldsberry of Lincoln, Neb.