Sunday, October 30, 2022

2022 People’s Choice Award Winners

Mountain Rose Herbs Aroma Bar by Agate Architecture, one of the 2022 People's Choice Award recipients.

Each year, the American Institute of Architects Oregon Chapter/Eugene Section (AIA Eugene), in collaboration with the Willamette Valley Section of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), sponsors the People’s Choice Awards for Architecture. The venerable awards program aims to educate and inspire our fellow citizens by showcasing architecture, interiors, and landscape architecture projects created within the AIA Eugene section area by AIA or ASLA members.

2022 marks the 33rd year of the People's Choice Awards. The projects presented for consideration were uniformly of a high quality, a testament to the maturation and increasing skill of local design professionals. Voting opened October 1 and continued through October 17, with the public and AIA and ASLA members alike casting their ballots, either at the display of projects boards in the Broadway Commerce Center, or online through the AIA Eugene website. 

For the first time since 2019, the awards celebration took place in-person at 255 Madison on October 26 (as opposed to occurring virtually). I unfortunately was unable to attend (I had/have a cold and did not want to share my unpleasant bounty with others). Those who did attend tell me the event was a success.

The 2022 program presented a total of sixteen projects across six categories (this is a small number in comparison to prior years; hopefully, we will see an increase in submissions for 2023). While boasting rights are a definite plus for the award recipients, the real benefit is raising the public’s awareness of quality architecture and the talents of local architects and landscape architects.

Without further ado, here is the list of 2022’s People’s Choice Award recipients:

Interiors (Commercial/Public/Institutional)
Mountain Rose Herbs Aroma Bar - Agate Architecture

Landscape Architecture 
Downtown Riverfront Park - Walker Macy

Multi-Family Residential
 

Public/Institutional
DeNorval Unthank Jr. Hall - Rowell Brokaw Architects
 

Single Family Residential
West View Residence - Aligned Architecture
 

Unbuilt Projects

The event organizers at AIA Eugene/ASLA prepared presentation boards for each of the winners. The boards are currently viewable outside of the Octagon at 92 E. Broadway in downtown Eugene, so check them out if you’re in the neighborhood. Each board features a detailed description and more photographs of the winning projects.

Congratulations to all the award recipients, and big thanks to the event sponsor—Rubenstein’s—and to the members of the organizing committee for producing this year’s People’s Choice Awards program.  

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