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Architecture Building Culture’s Vomo Island Spa project in Fiji was honored by AIA Portland with a Small Project Award.

Hundreds of architects and building industry members turned out for the American Institute of Architects’ Portland chapter’s 2015 Architecture Awards at Revolution Hall last week.

Firms were honored for work both near and far. The award-winning project farthest from Portland was Architecture Building Culture’s Vomo Island Spa on the island of Fiji; it received a Small Project Award.

Juror Sierra Bainbridge, senior director at MASS Design Group in Boston, said the Fiji pitched-roof project showed a very good use of local materials.

鈥淚 felt a connection to this space. It’s simple, graceful and elegant,鈥� she said.

Other jurors included Betsy Williamson, co-founder of Williamson Chong Architects of Toronto, Canada, and Kevin Daly, founder of Kevin Daly Architects of Santa Monica, California.

The second Small Project Award went to Skylab Architecture for The Artisans Cup, a bonsai exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. Daly complimented the effort.

鈥淵ou set up your own little architectural world,鈥� he said. 鈥淎nd we all know that bonsai is a blood sport.鈥�

But the first award of the night didn’t go to an architecture firm. The Jury Award went to Portland State University students.

The Pickathon Tree-Line Stage, which uses more than 400 cardboard cylinders, was designed and built by PSU architecture students for the annual Pickathon music festival. The stage can be disassembled and later put to other uses.

鈥淎s a music project with the tubes as sonic backdrop, it embodies what architecture can be,鈥� Williamson said.

The future of Veterans Memorial Coliseum is still up in the air, but Skylab Architecture’s design for repurposing it received the Unbuilt/Merit Award.

鈥淪kylab found ways of recapturing the carbon investment,鈥� Daly said.

The Ankeny 2/3 project won a Citation Award for COLAB Architecture + Urban Design, and the Stanford University Central Energy Facility won a Citation Award for ZGF Architects. A third Citation Award went to Dangermond Keane Architecture for the design of the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center in Lead, South Dakota.

鈥淚t was a tough building on a tough site with the building perched on the edge of an open pit,鈥� Williamson said of the South Dakota project. 鈥淭hey also deftly handled the massing.鈥�

Daly said the Ankeny 2/3 project was 鈥渞eclaiming this city鈥� and Bainbridge praised the Stanford energy plant.

鈥淭heir greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 65 percent,鈥� she said. 鈥淎ll design should contain sustainability.鈥�

Merit Awards went to two firms: Hennebery Eddy Architects for Fire Station 76 in Gresham and LEVER Architecture for the Treehouse apartments on Marquam Hill.

Bainbridge said of Fire Station 76, 鈥淚 like that the space is occupied by people who go out and protect property and life.鈥�

Williamson commented on the Treehouse apartments.

鈥淚t sits on the site really beautifully,鈥� she said. 鈥淭he project really sang.鈥�

The 2030 Merit Award went to Hacker for its design of the Courtyard Housing Project. Williamson said the design brought 鈥渁 great sense of urban presence鈥� to the project.

An Honor Award went to Waechter Architecture for the 800-square-foot, pitch-roofed Garden House, which Daly said showed 鈥渢he everyday excellence of very mundane things鈥� and was 鈥渞eally about reclaiming space.鈥�

The second Honor Award went to Allied Works Architecture for the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, which Williamson admired.

鈥淚t shows the benefit of master planning and design work,鈥� she said.

Mayor Charlie Hales presented the Mayor’s Awards for Design Excellence. An Honorable Mention went to the Ankeny 2/3 project by COLAB Architecture + Urban Design. The mayor gave Finalist Awards to Mackenzie for its design of the Stadium Fred Meyer store and to Allied Works Architecture for the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design.

Also, Mak Shibuya of ZGF Architects was named Emerging Professional of the Year.

PROJECT LIST

1.聽聽聽聽聽JURY AWARD

Project Name: Pickathon Tree-Line Stage

Architect: Portland State University School of Architecture

Contractor: Portland State University School of Architecture

2.聽聽聽聽聽SMALL PROJECT AWARD

Project Name: The Artisans Cup (bonsai exhibit at Portland Art Museum)

Architect: Skylab Architecture

Contractor: Rob Ludlow, Vomo Island Resort

3.聽聽聽聽聽SMALL PROJECT AWARD

Project Name: Vomo Island Spa

Architect: Architecture Building Culture

4.聽聽聽聽聽UNBUILT MERIT AWARD

Project Name: Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Architect: Skylab Architecture

Contractor: Hoffman Construction

5.聽聽聽聽聽CITATION AWARD

Project Name: Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center

Architect: Dangermond Keane Architecture

Contractor: Ainsworth Benning Construction Inc.

6.聽聽聽聽聽CITATION AWARD

Project Name: Ankeny 2/3

Architect: COLAB Architecture

Contractor: Rainier Pacific Development

7.聽聽聽聽聽CITATION AWARD

Project Name: Stanford University Central Energy Facility

Architect: ZGF Architects

Contractor: Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.

8.聽聽聽聽聽MERIT AWARD

Project Name: Fire Station 76

Architect: Hennebery Eddy Architects

Contractor: Bremik Construction Inc.

9.聽聽聽聽聽MERIT AWARD

Project Name: Treehouse

Architect: LEVER Architecture

Contractor: Walsh Construction Co.

10.聽聽聽2030 MERIT AWARD

Project Name: Courtyard Housing

Architect: Hacker

Contractor: Yorke & Curtis

11.聽聽聽HONOR AWARD

Project Name: Pacific Northwest College of Art, Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design

Architect: Allied Works Architecture

Contractor: Howard S. Wright

12.聽聽聽HONOR AWARD

Project Name: Garden House

Architect: Waechter Architecture

Contractor: BPS Construction