The Driehaus Prize is awarded to an architect whose work embodies the principles of traditional and classical architecture in contemporary society.
New Albany is a 5,000-acre new community on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio organized around a 27-hole golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus. Jaquelin Robertson and Copper, Robertson was retained to design a golf clubhouse and a bath and tennis club, the community’s social and recreational center, as well as a nearby crescent of four Georgian houses to illustrate desired residential building standards.
The two clubs, laid out on either side of an existing hedgerow of mature trees, define the Club House Drive. The Golf Club north of this median is a large, two-story, five-part Georgian-Palladian ‘country house’ containing three formal and informal dining areas, a central living room, stair hall, locker rooms, a bar, golf shop, and offices on the ground floor with flexible banquet facilities above overlooking a green lawn, which is used for outdoor entertaining and putting areas. Curving arcaded wings embrace this lawn and screen out parking lots.
The Bath and Tennis Club directly opposite is an informal, one-story building containing locker and exercise rooms, an indoor pool, cafeteria, children’s play areas, and pro shop. Its deep
porches overlook a garden, an outdoor pool terrace, and an exhibition tennis court. The other tennis courts are set within a garden of landscaped ‘rooms’ and walks.
While the Golf Club is built of two shades of molded “Tidewater” brick with stone and wood trim, the Bath and Tennis facility has wooden board and batten walls with dark green trim, and a red “ Charleston” metal roof with high monitors to admit light and conceal exhausts. (Robert Benson photos)
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