North Georgia museum wins architecture award

The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia has won an American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Excellence in Architecture.

The museum in the Sautee Nacoochee valley received one of two of the awards given this year. It is the highest design award given by AIA-Georgia and recognizes recently completed "architecture of distinction."

The museum in White County opened in September 2006.

Architect Robert M. Cain of Atlanta said the building's design, open spaces and airy nature were inspired by traditional northeast Georgia farm structures, particularly turn of the century open-air pottery shops, and structures he remembers on his grandfather's farm in Alabama.
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Information from: WDUN-AM, http://www.accessnorthga.com/wdun/

(AP)