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Signatures of Loudoun Design Excellence Program
2017 Awards
The buildings, interiors, places and details that, together, make our county unlike any other
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Loudoun County Design Cabinet
The Loudoun County Design Cabinet is an award-winning volunteer group of professional architects, landscape architects, planners and engineers formed in 2003. To
complement Loudoun’s natural beauty, and to reinforce its sense of place and community, the cabinet encourages
the highest quality urban, architectural, landscape and transportation planning.
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The AwardsThe Signatures of Loudoun Design Excellence Awards were developed more than a decade ago to uniquely
define and recognize Loudoun County’s architecture and iconic communities. The current categories are:
• Details
• Familiar
• Interiors
• Legends
• Makeovers
• Public Spaces
• Pace Setters
• Students’ Choice
The following highlights the 2017 selection process and awards.
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The Awards
Selection Day 2017
Mentor > Review > Debate > Vote > Celebrate
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LegendsStanding the test of time
• Design excellence for more than 25 years
• Withstood the “test of time”
• Icons of Loudoun County’s collective memory
• Unique objects
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MakeoversPreserving history
• Historic renovation and/or adaptive reuse
• Preserving Loudoun County’s unique history
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Makeovers
Mountville Church on Mountville Road, Middleburg
Courtesy of Paul Lawrence
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Public SpacesExcellence in space design
• Demonstrated form of public greens, streets, plazas and squares
• Organization and design makes them a mixing place
• Gathering places that are icons of the community
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Public Spaces
The Plaza at Cascades Overlook, Sterling
Courtesy of Andrew Sample
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Public Spaces
Raflo Park Sculpture Garden, Leesburg
Courtesy of Loudoun County Department of Economic Development
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• Design excellence
• Whimsically demonstrated finishing touches
• Strengthens Loudoun’s reputation as a place of rich contrasts
DetailsIt’s those little details that count
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Details
Painted Barrels Around Purcellville
Courtesy of Samantha Hagan
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• Exceptional attention to surrounding buildings, places and detail during the project design
• Highly “contextual” design solution to preserve the visual harmony
FamiliarThe right place, the right fit
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Familiar
Stone Springs Hospital Center, Dulles
Courtesy of Chris Hoal
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• Design excellence in an interior space
• Includes residential, commercial, retail, and public sector spaces
Interiors Excellence in interior design
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Interiors
Ocean Blue, Sterlingcean Blue, Sterling
Courtesy of Ocean Blue
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Interiors
Brickyard, Ashburn
Courtesy of Benjamin Burgess
Design Cabinet Selection
and Students’ Choice Award
2017
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• This special award category recognizes an individual or group, living or deceased, for the successful pursuit of a meaningful design vision completed in Loudoun County.
• This award focuses on very significant architectural design contributions made to Loudoun, be it for an individual project, or for a lifetime of achievement.
• The projects or designs may have been pursued at times when others could not fully appreciate them, but which have proven their worth over time.
Vision in DesignSuccessful pursuit of a meaningful design vision
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Vision in Design
Robert Klancher
His vision for Loudoun was to make it better for the citizens. He had a strong civic mind and cared very much about the community.