Sto Corp. Wins Highest Honor at 2023 EIFS Architectural Awards
It was recently announced that Sto Corp., the innovative world leader in full system facades, has won the 2023 Hero of the Year Award–the highest possible honor–at the 2023 EIFS Architectural Awards. The awards are presented by The EIFS Industry Members Association (EIMA), and winners were announced in March during the 2024 EIMA Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. Sto Corp also received an Award of Merit and two Honorable Mentions. The awards were judged by an esteemed panel of architects who had previously attained the highest honors in the competition.
The project that won the Hero of the Year Award was the Kaleideum Children’s Museum in Winston Salem, NC. The five-story, nearly 70,000-square-foot project wowed judges with its imaginative design inspired by kaleidoscopic geometric forms using Sto’s StoTherm® ci system with StoLit® Lotusan®. Over 160 EPS shapes, including brightly colored triangular accents, created a faceted look that resembles the shapes from a kaleidoscope. Second Wind Solutions, based in Durham, NC, was the contractor, and Gensler, based in Raleigh, NC, was the architect.