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BOORA Architects Win National Design AwardBOORA Architects, the design firm for the Arts of Collin County performance hall, has received its first Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture from the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
The honor was awarded to BOORA for its design of an innovative temporary theater for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's (PICA) second annual Time-Based Art (TBA) festival held in September 2004.
The theater was in place for only 10 days before being fully recycled.
BOORA's design effort was a pro-bono gift to PICA and the firm also contributed volunteer labor to build the space on a shoestring $10,000 budget.
Only eleven firms in 10 states received the prestigious honor from the national AIA, and the temporary theater was the only project in the Pacific Northwest to receive the award.
BOORA Architects has a long resume of notable cultural arts design experience, most recently the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona; the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Mondavi Center for the Arts in Davis, California.
However, the firm's pro-bono work on this modest venue for PICA has captured the greatest attention among the national design community.
On top of the design award, the temporary theater has won an Honor Award from the NW & Pacific Region Chapter of the AIA;
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