2017 People’s Choice Award Winners

Each year, the American Institute of Architects, Southwestern Oregon Chapter (AIA-SWO), in collaboration with the Willamette Valley Section of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), sponsors the People’s Choice Awards for Architecture. These awards aim to educate and inspire our fellow citizens by showcasing architecture, interiors, and landscape architecture projects created within the Southwestern Oregon Chapter area by AIA or ASLA members. The program demonstrates to the public the role of the architectural profession in enhancing the built environment by showcasing the talents of AIA-SWO and ASLA members.

This year’s edition marked the 28th year of the AIA-SWO People's Choice Awards, drawing 53 entries across 11 categories. Presentation boards for the projects were displayed throughout the month of October in the Broadway Commerce Center lobby in downtown Eugene, debuting during October’s First Friday Art Walk. Balloting occurred both in person and online via AIA-SWO’s website.

Here is the list of the 2017 People’s Choice Award winners, which was also featured in the Design Annual insert in the Thursday, November 30 edition of the Eugene Register-Guard:

Commercial: Timbers Inn Lounge - Nir Pearlson Architect

Interiors: Hot Mama's Kitchen and Bar - Rowell Brokaw Architects

General Landscape: From Forgotten to Fantastic - Stangeland & Associates

Multi-Family Landscape: Bascom Village - Dougherty Landscape Architects

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Multi-Family Housing: The Oaks at 14th - Bergsund Delaney Architecture & Planning

Master Planning: Plan Clayton - The Urban Collaborative

Parklet Design: IM.A.BENCH - PIVOT Architecture

Public/Institutional: Valley Football Center - HNTB Architecture

Single-Family Residential: Christianson Passive House - Studio-E Architecture

Student/Emerging Professional: Taylor Street Food Hall - Nicholas Paino

Unbuilt: Eugene Civic Park - Robertson Sherwood Architects

 
Congratulations to this year's winners and big thanks to the members of the organizing committee for making the 2017 People’s Choice Awards program an unqualified success!

The winners will be recognized at this year's AIA-SWO Holiday Party, coming December 13 at Sprout! in Springfield. The winners of the ancillary Colleagues’ Choice program (and also the Mayor’s Choice awards) will likewise be announced at the holiday party. The Colleagues’ Choice voting is a fun way for AIA-SWO and ASLA members to weigh in on the question of which of their peers’ projects were most worthy of recognition. In addition, the AIA-SWO and ASLA voters were encouraged to provide their comments about the projects.