• The Pizitz Building
• Windmill Market
• UAB Women & Infants Center

National Village

National Village , a Retirement Systems of Alabama residential development has completed Phase I consisting of Craftsman-style estate homes and golf cottages. Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood of Montgomery designed the $600 million project located on 700 acres adjacent to the Robert Trent Jones Grand National Golf Course in Opelika. When built out, the development will encompass 1,000 to 1,400 homes and, according to plans, include a village center, chapel, lakes, marina, pools, trails, tennis facility and spa.

Westervelt Communities Branding

An advertising, branding and interactive firm, Scout Branding Company took home 18 Addys from the 2010 Birmingham Ad Fed competition. Among them were 5 golds and a silver for their work on branding Westervelt Communities . Their goal was to communicate that the master-planned development in Tuscaloosa was a unique, memorable place focused on family and friendships. The Birmingham firm designed the Web site to reflect the communities’ brand effectively by taking elements and colors from the development’s identity to create a clean coordinating interface.

Planning Digital Collections

Auburn University Libraries has recently added two digital collections related to urban planning: Alabama Community Plans by KPS Group and Posters by AU Urban Studio , both of Birmingham. These are full text, fully searchable collections available to the public. There are currently 33 Alabama community plans and 46 Urban Studio posters in digital format. Urban Studio posters are College of Architecture, Design & Construction student work providing a snapshot of a community’s assets through colorful graphics and text.

Samford Field House

Davis Architects of Birmingham designed the $7.5 million Cooney Family Field House at Samford University in the signature Georgian-Colonial style of the Birmingham campus. The 39,000-square-foot building includes two levels of offices, locker rooms, meeting space, equipment storage and training facilities for football. A hospitality suite and observation deck overlook Seibert Stadium. The unfinished third level will be used for future university expansion needs. 

Ruffner Wetlands

Collaborating with Ruffner Mountain staff, Birmingham’s Macknally Ross Land Design has created a wetland design to capture water flowing downhill from a spring and filter it through a series of wetlands planted with aquatic vegetation before flowing into a creek bed. Guided by interpretive signage, visitors to the Birmingham park can view the wetlands from gravel and wood boardwalk paths. Future plans include pervious parking, a green building ranger station and a new entrance from Irondale.

Thank you to the Sponsors for the Mayors Design Summit

DesignAlabama would like to thank the sponsors for the recent DesignAlabama Mayors Design Summit: Goodwyn Mills & Cawood, Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Gresham Smith & Partners, the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Alabama Power Foundation.