Tis the season for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to unveil the winners of its awards for 2008, several more of whom were announced today: Richard Meier’s Atheneum, in New Harmony, Ind., will be honored with the Twenty-Five-Year Award; Norma Merrick Sklarek, FAIA, will be recognized with the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award; and Thomas L. McKittrick, FAIA, will receive the Edward C. Kemper Award.

The Twenty-Five-Year Award goes to a work first recognized by the AIA at its completion and whose design has held up well after its silver anniversary. The Atheneum is a visitors center for the town of New Harmony, a utopian community founded by a German religious group in 1814. Meier’s building was recognized with an AIA Honor Award in 1982. The three-story, white-walled structure features a ramp that leads visitors through a series of exhibition spaces, each one off-axis from the next, culminating with a rooftop platform that allows views of the town.