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Posted By richards on April 29, 2014

The Center for Active Design has named winners of its inaugural Excellence awards, which recognize the role of design in encouraging physical activity to combat obesity and chronic disease. A jury selected four winning projects and two honorable mentions, as well as a Leadership in Active Design Excellence award honoring an early adopter with a track record of active design implementation.

The selection criteria required built projects to be complete and to have implemented at least one of the centers four active design categories: active transportation, active recreation, healthy food access, or active building.

The winners include:

Center for Active Design: Excellence Awards

Buckingham County Elementary School Dillwyn, Virginia VMDO Architects, P.C.

Sephardic Community Center Brooklyn, New York BKSK Architects

Greenbridge Master Plan King County, Washington Project and landscape architecture: GGLO Blue Hole Regional Park Wimberley, Texas Design Workshop, Inc.

Honorable Mentions Gammel Hellerup High School Gymnasium and Multipurpose Hall Hellerup, Denmark BIG Bjarke Ingels Group

Gensler Office Space Newport Beach, California

Leadership in Active Design: Excellence Award Les Bluestone, president of Blue Sea Development Company and Blue Sea Construction Co.

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Center for Active Design Names Excellence Award Recipients

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