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Design Awards: What the pros picked...

Yesterday the four additional awards we handed out to projects by local architects as part of the 2008 AIA Spokane Design Awards.  While our polls were a simple popular vote contest, theirs have three distinct levels a project can be awarded:  Citation (lowest); Merit (middle); Honor (highest).  They can also choose not to award anything.

The results are below:

• Citation - Walla Walla Community College Health Science and Performing Arts Facility
• Merit - The Fox Theater - NAC Architecture
• Merit - The Chapel of the three companions - Integrus Architecture
• Merit - William A. Grant Water & Environmental Center - ALSC Architects

2008 People's Choice Award Winner

With all the drama of a Bush/Gore presidential election recount, the final tallies are in - hanging chads and all.  A full eight days of voting, 22 projects, and just a touch of trash talk, it came down to The FOX Theater Vs. The Hospice House.  MetroSpokane employees spent the greater part of last night validating the results with the oversight of our in house accounting firm.  You should have complete confidence and can rest assured that these results are legit even though some of you tried your best to rig it.*

Stay tuned...

The People's Choice Award winner will be posted today at 1PM.  Thanks for tuning in.

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2008 People's Choice Finals - Get yer vote on.

The Paulsen Building, The Davenport Hotel, the Spokane Courthouse, the RiverparkSquare Parking Garage.  All icons of the Spokane skyline and yet none can claim the crown as the MetroSpokane/AIA People's Choice Award for architecture. 

Above, you'll see the final bracket has been established.  After three very long rounds of often contentious and passionate voting The Hospice House and The Fox Theater have emerged as the two favs of 22 entries.  These two remaining projects will face off for the next grueling 24 hours.  In the end only one will remain standing, and that one will be the first ever MetroSpokane/AIA People's Choice Award winner.  Will it be the Hospice House, or the juggernaut Fox Theater?  Get yer vote on!

And then there were 4...

Yesterday's Recap:  The Fox walked all over the Loffs Bay residence.  Not even close.  Equally strong was the Ferris High School project which all but owned the Pend d'Oreille residence. 

Today's Matchups:  As last week's polls dragged on for what seemed like forever, this week is moving ahead at pretty good clip.  Already we're into the Final Four with two solid matchups taking place. In the Left Bracket the Kennedy Apartments face the Hospice House which ran over the WSU Academic Center in Round 2.  In the Right Bracket is The Fox Vs. Ferris.  Two big projects that share little if any common ground.  How this one will turn out is anyone's guess.  Sweet interior Vs. a sweet exterior?  You make the call in the polls below.  The Quarterfinals begin now.

ROUND 3 - Kennedy Apts Vs. Hospice House

[The MetroSpokane/AIA People's Choice Award is the first ever event handed over to our readers.  Over the coming days YOU will determine the best architectural design by a member of the Spokane chapter of AIA.  We've 22 entries to tantalize all the armchair architects out there. Round 3 is today - keep your guard up!]

ROUND 3 - Fox Theater Vs. Ferris High

[The MetroSpokane/AIA People's Choice Award is the first ever event handed over to our readers.  Over the coming days YOU will determine the best architectural design by a member of the Spokane chapter of AIA.  We've 22 entries to tantalize all the armchair architects out there.  Like it or not, we've advanced to ROUND 2.  Now the fun begins.]

Day 5 - Friday's Recap: West Valley and Academic Center shut down

Friday's Recap:  The potential for a full on academic run on the Left bracket was quelled on Friday.  A full eight of eleven entries in the Left Bracket were academic projects, but overcoming the odds in the first match up of Round 2 was the Hospice House.  Hospice trumped WSU's Academic Center to advance to the Quarter Finals tomorrow.  In the second matchup, as one commenter put it two projects, "with strikingly similar roofs," went head to head.  In the end the Kennedy Apartments overcame West Valley setting up a North Side/South Side Quarter Final.

Today's Face-off:  20th century art deco takes on 21st century exuberance as The Fox takes and the Loffs Bay residence meet.  The second match up has South Hill's Ferris High School and the swanky Pend d'Oreille residence.  It's up to you now.  Who deserves to advance to tomorrow's Quarterfinals?  Polls below...

ROUND 2 - Ferris High Vs. Pend d'Oreille

[The MetroSpokane/AIA People's Choice Award is the first ever event handed over to our readers.  Over the coming days YOU will determine the best architectural design by a member of the Spokane chapter of AIA.  We've 22 entries to tantalize all the armchair architects out there.  Like it or not, we've advanced to ROUND 2.  Now the fun begins.]

ROUND 2 - Fox Theater Vs. Loffs Bay

[The MetroSpokane/AIA People's Choice Award is the first ever event handed over to our readers.  Over the coming days YOU will determine the best architectural design by a member of the Spokane chapter of AIA.  We've 22 entries to tantalize all the armchair architects out there.  Like it or not, we've advanced to ROUND 2.  Now the fun begins.]