The Great Indoors Awards 2007

Via the five winners of the Great Indoors Award 2007

Original Fake [Tokyo, Japan, 2006] by the Award winning Wonderwall Inc. portfolio.

 

Winners The Great Indoors Award 2007!

Saturday evening 17 November the winners of The Great Indoors Award 2007 were announced by member of the Jury Wiel Arets in a warm and lively atmosphere in the NAi Maastricht. Wonderwall was honoured with the award for Interior Design Firm of the Year, Zaha Hadid, Heatherwick Studios, Ryui Nakamura Architects and Item Idem carried away the other four of The Great Indoors Awards 2007. DJ’s Mr. and Mrs Cameron ensured a perfect musical setting for the

evening in the NAi, which continued until the small wee hours in bar Ipanema.

And the projects by the five winners of the Great Indoors Award 2007 are :

• Item dem
  

Award Winning Project: Bernhard Wilhelm, a Flagship store in Tokyo. [Tokyo,2006]

Item idem designed the Bernhard Willhelm flagship store in Tokyo for Bus Stop Co.

• Ryuji Nakamura Architects Co., Ltd.

Award winning project: Jin’s Global Standard Nagareyama , an Optician in Chiba. [Chiba, Japan, 2006]

Ryuji Nakamura Architects designed Jin’s Global Standard located in Chiba, Japan for Jin Co. (images via architectural record by Daici Ano

2007 Portland Honor Awards

Via 2007 Portland Honor Awards.

As part of our ongoing presentation about 2007 northwest honor awards for architecture, today’s blog entry presents the winners from Portland’s October 12^th awards ceremony. To view all 76 entries or to learn more about the Portland Design Awards visit the AIA Portland website. More modern architecture in Portland can be found on The Modern List Portland.

Built Honor Award and Craftsmanship Award
University of Oregon Athletic Medicine Center
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects

Built Honor Award
Neal Creek Residence, Paul McKean Architecture

Built Merit Award
Olympic Mills Warehouse, Works Partnership Architecture, llc

Built Citation Award and Sustainability Award
NAU (prototype, Bellevue Square Store)
Skylab Design Group Architecture + Interiors

Built Citation Award and Craftsmanship Award
City of Wilsonville Memorial Park Structures and Historic Barn
Hennebery Eddy Architects, Inc.

Built Citation Award
Split, COLAB Architecture + Urban Design

Unbuilt Merit Award
Encased Houses, Works Partnership Architecture, llc

Unbuilt Citation Award
2631 NW Upshur, Works Partnership Architecture, llc

Mayor’s Award for Design Excellence
Community Campus at New Columbia, Dull Olsen Weekes Architects

People’s Choice Award
Al Bateen Wharf Hotel + Residence, Otak Architects

Jury
Wendell Burnette, AIA, of Wendell Burnette Architects in Phoenix, Arizona
Anne Fougeron, AIA, of Fougeron Architecture in San Francisco, California
Bing Thom, MAIBC, FRAIC, AIA, of Bing Thom Architects in Vancouver, British Columbia.

While there is plenty of good work coming out of Portland we noticed that several of the websites aren’t doing the work justice. For any of you Portland architects interested in a cleaner, more thorough digital interface we recommend speaking with the Daylight Studio in Portland, they do nice work and have experience with architecture based websites.