Allen Arena receives 'Excellence' Award
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Lipscomb Unversity's Allen Arena has been honored with a prestigious architectural award.
The arena was one of three area projects receiving top honors at the Excellence in Development Awards program held March 1 at the Downtown Public Library in Nashville.
The judges commented that the arena "was a very difficult site, but the designers fit the parking structure into the topography, reducing the potential problem of the mass of the building by setting it into the hill. It greatly enhances the campus, providing an anchor and tying in the existing bell tower. It finishes the sense of the campus plan."
"This is an honor that is well deserved by Seab Tuck and the Tuck-Hinton firm," said Lipscomb President Steve Flatt. "Their work on Allen Arena took our mission and purpose into consideration, and the result is a beautiful, functional facility that augments every aspect of our operation."
Since its inception in 1989, Excellence in Development has worked to recognize and promote high quality development in Middle Tennessee by raising the public awareness of exceptional design and construction. Awards are given to both the project's design team and its contractors.
This year 20 projects were submitted by architects, engineers and contractors. Judges for the awards included Cameron Man, ASLA head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Mississippi State University and Jon Kinsey, president of Kinsey Probasco & Associates and former mayor of Chattanooga.
Additional Excellence award winners for this year included the Nashville Public Library and the Martin Zerfoss Insurance Agency.
The Madison Street United Methodist Church, the Tennessee State Fire Services Codes Enforcement Academy and the Watkins College of Art and Design also received honors.
Excellence in Development is led by a steering committee of 14 area organizations. This is the 13th year for the awards program.
Allen Arena was one of the first major initiatives of Lipscomb's Lighting the Way: Igniting the Future campaign to raise $150 million for facilities, endowment and operations by Dec. 31, 2005.