Saturday, October 30, 2021

2021 People’s Choice Award Winners


This past Wednesday evening, 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), announced the winners of the 2021 edition of the venerable and popular People’s Choice Awards for Architecture program, in which anyone was allowed to vote for their favorite new projects. 

Due to the ongoing pandemic, the organizing committee conferred this year’s six People’s Choice Awards and one Colleague’s Choice Award (for which voting was limited to AIA and ASLA members only) by means of a well-attended Zoom meeting. Kudos to committee members Colin Dean, AIA, Rex Prater, AIA, and Alexis Griffin for hosting the show and ensuring the proceedings were enjoyable and briskly paced. And big thanks to this year’s program sponsors: Arbor South Architecture, Rubenstein’s, Central Print & Reprographic Services, with a special shout out to this year’s title sponsor PAE

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

Multi-Family Residential: The Midtown (Dustrud Architecture)

Commercial: Country Crossroads Development (The Satre Group)

Public/Institutional: Campbell Center (PIVOT Architecture)

Single-Family Residential: Oceana Vido Passive House (Studio.e Architecture)

Student/Emerging Professionals: Gillespie Butte Modern (Andy Drake)

Unbuilt: Rivett Building (Campfire Collaborative: Architecture & Design)

The winner of this year's Colleague’s Choice is the Oceana Vido Passive House, making Studio.e Architecture a double award recipient. 

The event organizers at AIA Eugene/ASLA have 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. 

With luck, the next edition of the People’s Choice Awards will feature an opportunity to celebrate in-person. Until then, congratulations to this year’s winners, as well as big thanks to the program sponsors and members of the organizing committee for making the 2021 People’s Choice Awards program an unqualified success!  

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