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the highest honor that the American Insti-
tute o f Architects c an b estow – the Archi-
tecture Firm Award, recognizing ZGF for
“creatively transforming c lient needs and
aspirations i nto elegant, i nventive a rchitec-
tural form, and establishing a standard of ex-
cellence and expectation of quality to which
According to Ted, those awards a re a lways
appreciated, but it’s e specially rewarding to
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ing or impacting the users.
“Whether i t’s a hospital where you c an s ee
kids in an environment where they actually
heal b etter, o r a laboratory b uilding where
diseases – we want the building to be a cata-
lyst,”he says. “To me, that’smuch more grati-
fying than anything else.”
Recently, at the 2014 AmericanArchitecture
Awards – hosted by the Chicago Athenaeum
Museum o f Architecture a nd D esign, t o-
gether with the European Center for Archi-
tecture Art Design and Urban S tudies and