BRUNSWICK -- The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has won an American Architecture Award from the Chicago Atheneum: Museum of Architecture and Design, the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, and the Metropolitan Arts Press.

A jury in Athens, Greece, selected 66 American projects for the award, which recognizes outstanding accomplishments for new architecture designed and built in the United States by American and international architecture firms practicing in the United States.

The Museum's $20.8 million expansion and renovation project was designed by architects Machado and Silvetti Associates of Boston.

The awarded projects for 2008 and other selected works will form an exhibition, "New American Architecture," to open at SESV Santa Verdiana in Florence, Italy.

The exhibition then travels to The European Centre's new Contemporary Art + Architecture Centre in Athens. In 2009, the exhibition will start a national tour in the United States.

The museum also received a design award from the Boston Society of Architects 2008 Honor Awards.

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