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The Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community’s (SRPMIC) new Justice Center, designed by Gould Evans, was recently selected as a 2018 Architizer A+Awards winner in the Government & Municipal Buildings category. The Justice Center, a tribal court and practitioners’ building located in the Sonoran Desert, was designed to uphold the tribe’s unique sense of identity, beauty and humility. The design solidifies a balance of tribal sovereignty alongside pressures of modernization within the region of the nation’s fifth largest metropolis, Phoenix.
“We’re honored to be recognized by the Architizer A+Awards for our work on SRPMIC,” said Krista Shepherd, Principal of Gould Evans’ Phoenix Studio. “ Our national design practice focuses on people and place specificity. We were delighted to engage the Community in the challenges of imagining the evolving meanings and forms of tribal Justice. After all, we joined a partnership with the Community to build a framework for which Tribal Justice is meant to consider.”
The new 93,000 SF facility addresses both the demands of a contemporary justice system, as well as creates a sense of tribal modernity, sovereignty and historical familiarity. Working across a cultural border created the need to establish cross-cultural relationships, devise a system of communication, and attempt an empathetic work aimed at deeper cultural understanding about history, place and justice in an evolving tribal community.
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