DPS AIA Triangle 2023 Design Award: Merit Award

Thank you, AIA Triangle, for recognizing Durham Public Schools’s Murray-Massenburg Elementary School with a design award! The school is currently under construction, and we are excited to see it ready to welcome students in the Fall of 2024.

The jurors appreciated the care taken to preserve the natural environment in addition to celebrating that environment through education and architecture. They mentioned the strategic use of color and materiality that speaks to the youthfulness of these spaces.

Special thanks to Jury Chair, Jha D Amazi (nee Williams), and the jurors: Carla Ceruzzi, AIA (Sasaki), Craig Wilkins, Patrick Morgan (KieranTimberlake), and Yanel de Angel.

Architect: EVOKE Studio Architecture, PLLC

Design Team: Revington Reaves Landscape Architecture and Planning, PLLC Mark Reaves, Dewberry, KONTEK Systems, Inc., Glimmer & Glow, LLC, JC WALLER & ASSOCIATES, PC Michael M. Simpson + Associates, Inc. (MMSA, Inc.)

Construction Team: LeChase Construction and SGS Contracting