Duvall Decker Honored with 2024 American Architecture Award
The Springdale Municipal Complex has received the 2024 American Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies!
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, has organized The American Architecture Awards as a way to honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important American architects and planners practicing nationally and internationally.
Springdale, Arkansas is the fourth largest city in the state located between Bentonville and Fayetteville. Between 1990 and 2010, it experienced a 133% growth in population, and the city’s public service functions were spread across downtown, often in out-of-date spaces that did not adequately serve the needs of the citizens. The City of Springdale had outgrown its police headquarters, state district court, and administrative offices. The Springdale Municipal Complex, a Walton Family Foundation Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Project, was initiated to provide efficient, safe, and centralized professional services to the citizens of Springdale and accommodate its growth for the next 20 years. The new complex houses a state-of-the-art police facility, a state district court, and a new city council chamber and includes a partial renovation of the existing city administration building. A new single entry under the council chamber provides access to all city services along an interior public arcade spanning the front of the complex. The design was presented to and reviewed by Springdale citizens who voted overwhelmingly in a special election to fund the project with municipal bonds. The Municipal Complex is one piece of a larger master plan that builds upon Downtown Springdale’s unique character and authenticity to return it to a vibrant center of commerce and creativity.
We’d like to give a big thank you to our wonderful client and friends in Springdale, the American Architecture Awards program for honoring this special project, our amazing team at Duvall Decker, and all of our project consultants!
Duvall Decker is in good company! For more information on the other winning firms and to read more about the Springdale Municipal Complex, click here.