2010 AIA NW&P Region Design Awards:
Quality Designs Make for Tough Competition
The AIA Northwest & Pacific Region annually holds the Region Design Awards (RDA) competition for projects, designed by AIA architects from Hong Kong to Montana, which have previously won an award. This year there were over 70 entrants in the competition but only a handful received awards.
While this has always been a “best of the best” competition; 2010 is distinctive due to the level of excellence demonstrated in design submittals. The high quality of design made decisions difficult for the jury.
The 2010 jury only handed out eight awards. Four Honor Awards and four Citation awards were given; no Merit Awards were handed out. Pervasive elements in the winning designs were innovation and skilled utilization of elements that could have inhibited design.
The 2010 Honor Award Winners are: SRG Partnership for Portland State University’s Shattuck Hall Renovation; Mahulm for Bainbridge High School; LMN Architects for the Vancouver Convention Center West; and ZGF Architects for the Portland Mall Revitalization.
2010 Citation Award Winners are: CL3 Architects Limited for Vanke Shenzhen Head Office; Works Partnership Architecture for the Olympia Mills Commerce Center and bSIDE6; and BCHO Architects for the Earth House.
The awards event itself was well attended with over 200 attendees. Jurors easily held the audience attention with their comments and both participants and attendees were fortunate to have an exceptional combination of jurors. The three jury members were: Julie Eizenberg, Founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture; David Lake, FAIA; Lake|Flato Architects; and Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, Eva Li Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Emeritus UC Berkeley.
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The AIA Northwest & Pacific Region advances the interests and purposes of the AIA within the Northwest and Pacific geographic territory; in concert with the Components, individual AIA members, schools, and AIA chapters. Twenty-eight components and seven schools that make-up the AIA Northwest & Pacific Region. You can contact the Region Office at 724 Columbia St NW, Ste. 120, Olympia WA 98501, (360) 943-6012, info@aianwpr.org
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