Local student wins award in Arkansas
University of Arkansas Honors College students Adel Vaughn and Mary Nell Patterson have won the Student Award in the Envision Little Rock 2013 Ideas Competition, which challenged Arkansas designers to develop an iconic gateway to the city of Little Rock.
Adel Vaughn is the daughter of Patrick and Maria Vaughn of Bayfield. Both Vaughn and Patterson are third-year landscape architecture students in the university’s Fay Jones School of Architecture. Their design, “Silver Spire,” calls for ribbons of aluminum that spiral 250 feet high around a transparent elevator shaft that would offer visitors views of the city. A ribbon also would flow through the surrounding park to nearby attractions. A glass reflecting pool with an information center below completes the design. Vaughn and Patterson were awarded a $1,500 prize funded by the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau.
