Inaugural winners of Hnedak Bobo Group's travel scholarship

Hnedak Bobo Group recently announced two winners for their inaugural Gregory O. Hnedak (GOH) Travel Scholarship, which was named after and inspired by co-founder Hnedak and his travels worldwide as part of his creative process.

Open to current HBG employees and support staff, the US$5,000 scholarship was established to encourage international travel to enrich both professional development and personal growth.

HBG also awarded a total of $5,000 to three University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture students that created the winning proposals in the annual Hnedak Bobo International Design Competition. The competition recognizes student work done during the Fay Jones School's study-abroad programs.

"The first scholarship went to Thor Harland, an intern architect specializing in design who has chosen to travel to London and Paris to study the tension between history and progress in design. For the second award, executive assistant Branden Canepa will travel to Spain and experiencing walking through a part of the El Camino de Santiago -- a journey of geographical and architectural inspiration, and physical challenge."

"The seventh annual International Design Competition winners were Colby Ritter, a fifth-year student from Joplin, Missouri, who won the Award of Excellence and a $3,000 prize for a design created during his required study abroad semester at the University of Arkansas Rome Center; Kyle Marsh, a fifth-year student from Little Rock, and James Vo, a fifth-year student from Fort Smith, who each won an Award of Merit and a $1,000 prize for designs they created in Rome."

"Award of Excellence winner Colby Ritter designed a library built atop ancient ruins of Rome for his winning proposal. The Hnedak Bobo Group jury found the project to be as much about the historical city as it was about an indefinite future – at once both a part of the history, and apart from it as an autonomous, urban object. They applauded the design for its thoughtful derivation from historical profiles and ruin that allowed the public to identify with the architecture in a very accessible way, while sensitively positioning a contemporary structure to reanimate the urban fabric."