Firehouse Magazine has announced the winners of its third annual Station Design Awards program, which recognizes outstanding architecture and design from fire departments nationwide.
Gold, Silver and Bronze awards have been distributed across five categories in this prestigious competition: Career departments, Satellite stations, Volunteer/Combination departments, Shared facilities and Renovated fire stations. For the first time in the Station Design Awards, the judges recommended a Platinum award for one station as well. All participating entries will be published in the November issue of Firehouse Magazine and online within the Stations tab on Firehouse.com.
“Trends in station design are ever-changing based on the evolving needs of the fire service and the communities it serves,” said Greg Toritto, group publisher, Firehouse. “Firehouse’s Station Design Awards issue continues to highlight the best-of-the-best in fire station design for volunteer, combination and career departments. Our hope is that these projects will provide other departments with valuable insight, ideas and guidelines as they embark on projects in their communities.”
Janet Wilmoth, special projects director to Firehouse, added that fire stations have significantly evolved over the past 20 years due to the increased responsibilities of fire departments across the country. “This year every one of the 40 facilities submitted to the Station Design Awards had fire sprinklers installed, setting an example of progressive fire prevention in their community,” she said. “Each of these new fire/emergency facilities is designed for quicker response times, diversity in stations, and with an increasing focus on firefighter health and safety.”
Winners were selected by a panel of five judges including two fire chiefs, two architects and a civil engineer/fire chief with experience in fire station designs. The winning entries are as follows:
CAREER FIRE STATION DESIGN WINNERS
Platinum Award – Los Angeles Regional Fire Station No. 82, Hollywood, CA
Architects: RRM Design Group, San Luis Obispo, CA
Gold Award – Fire Station 45, San Diego, CA
Architects: WLC Architects, Inc., Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Silver Award – Central Fire Station No. 1, Richmond, TX
Architects: Brown Reynolds Watford Architects, Inc., College Station, TX
Bronze Award – Fire Station No. 2, Jacksonville, NC
Architects: Stewart-Cooper-Newell Architects, Gastonia, NC
SATELLITE STATION DESIGN WINNERS
Gold Award – Fire Station 27, Dallas, TX
Architects: Perkins+Will, Dallas, TX, and TCA Architecture + Planning, Seattle, WA
Silver Award – City of Lodi Fire Station No. 2 Replacement Project, Lodi, CA
Architects: Mary McGrath Architects, Oakland, CA
Bronze Award – Haltom City Fire Station No. 2, Haltom City, TX
Architects: Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects, Dallas, TX
VOLUNTEER/COMBINATION FIRE STATION DESIGN WINNERS
Gold Award – Kincora Safety Center, Sterling, VA
Architects: LeMay Erickson Willcox Architects, Reston, VA
Silver Award – Mill Creek Fire Company Station #21, Marshallton, DE
Architects: Pacheco Ross Architects, PC, Voorheesville, NY
Bronze Award – El Paso County ESD No. 1 Horizon City Central Fire Station No. 1, Horizon City, TX
Architects: Brown Reynolds Watford Architects, Inc., College Station, TX
RENOVATED FIRE STATION DESIGN WINNERS
Gold Award – Hershey Fire Station, Hershey, PA
Architects: KD3 Design Studio, Inc., Lemoyne, PA
Silver Award – Mastic Volunteer Ambulance Company – Addition & Alteration to HQ, Mastic, NY
Architects: H2M architects + engineers, Melville, NY
Bronze Award – Town of Glenville Fire District No. 5 (Beukendaal Fire Station), Glenville, NY
Architects: Mitchell Associates Architects, Voorheesville, NY
SHARED FACILITIES DESIGN WINNERS
Gold Award – Sunnyvale Fire Station 5 & Public Safety Training Center, Sunnyvale, CA
Architects: DES Architects + Engineers, Redwood City, CA
Silver Award – Des Moines Fire Logistics and Training Center, Des Moines, IA
Architects: CR architecture + design, Cincinnati, OH
Bronze Award – City of Dickinson Public Safety Center, Dickinson, ND
Architects: Schutz Foss Architects, Dickinson, ND, and Roth Sheppard Architects, Denver, CO
