The Best of 2006 Awards

The Mid-Atlantic Best of 2006 Jury examined dozens of projects in over 20 categories to vote on the very best of the region’s recently completed work.

This year’s Best of 2006 competition attracted yet more participants. With a variety of high-profile projects finishing in the past year in each of the five states in the Mid-Atlantic region, selecting the top projects and narrowing down categories was a daunting, if enlightening, task. Despite their diversity of experiences, however, our seven distinguished jurors selected the Donald Reynolds Center of American Art and Portraiture as the undisputed overall winner.

Stylianos Christofides is the principal of ICG Properties, a real estate development firm based in Washington, D.C. His career has spanned development projects in Pakistan, India, Tunisia, Egypt, Portugal, and Great Britain. He is currently directing the redevelopment of Takoma Walk in Maryland; Penn Branch Center in Washington; and 1240 and 1250 N. Pitt Street in Alexandria, Va.

Stephen Dalton is the executive vice president of Tishman Construction Corp. of D.C., a construction management, design/build, project management and general contracting firm based in Washington, D.C. He has over 27 years of experience in construction, development and architecture, and previously served as the president of his own firm, the Dalton Advisory Group LLC.

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Ted Dwyer, Jr., is the president of Wilmington, Del.-based construction management firm EDiS Co., where he is most heavily involved in the preconstruction phase of projects. Dwyer also is a registered architect and a member of the Construction Specifications Institute and the Construction Management Association of America.

James Garrison is a senior associate with the Philadelphia offices of Hillier, the Princeton-based architectural firm. Garrison’s key projects include the Ritz- Carlton Philadelphia and the Virginia State Capitol Renovation and Extension. He serves on the boards of several historic preservation associations and is the author of The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope, Acanthus Press, 2004.

Thomas Nason, II is the chief executive officer and third generation owner of Nason Construction, Inc., the construction management, general contracting and design-build services firm based in Wilmington, Del. Nason serves on several boards and committees, including Leadership, Inc., the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry, and the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, where he is also co-chair.

Paul Nassetta, Jr., is the regional senior vice president of Structure Tone, the Arlington, Va.-based general contractor and construction management company. He has over 25 years of experience in the construction industry and is overseeing the entire Washington, D.C., office with a focus on acquiring projects and growing the company.

Lou Robbins is the executive vice president at the Baltimore office of Dewberry, the Fairfax, Va.,-based firm specializing in program management, planning, engineering, architecture, surveying, geographic and environmental services. He has extensive experience in transportation planning, design, design-build and field construction inspection. Robbins has been the chair of several associations’ Design-Build committees.

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