Federal Courthouse

Steel Tonnage: 300
Location: Austin, Texas
Category: Community
Software: SDS/2
Year: 2010, completed 2012

Designed by Scogin and his design partner Merrill Elam, the eight-story, 252,420 SF courthouse clad in cut Texas limestone set in varying size rectangles that alternate with sections of darkly finished stainless steel. The new courthouse fronts onto Republic Square Park. The building has been referred to admiringly and jokingly as a Rubik’s cube.

The building has won numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects, as well as the 2016 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.

• LEED Silver Certification
• 2016 The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Center

• 2016 AIA South Atlantic Region Design Award
• 2016 ABJ Commercial Real Estate Awards Overall Winner
• 2016 AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice, Justice Facilities Review

• 2014 General Service Administration Design Award
• 2013 Texas Masonry Council Golden Trowel Award
• 2008 General Services Administration Citation in On-the-Boards