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Integrating Habitats award winners and celebration highlights

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Check out photos, playlist and highlights from the Integrating Habitats Award Celebration and view competition award winners.

Congratulations to the winners

More than 100 teams from around the world submitted entries to the Integrating Habitats design competition that prove every building in which we live, work, shop and play can create places for both people and nature. Awards were announced at a celebration on Feb. 26, 2008. View award winning designs.

Category 1: Mixed-use development and riparian forest habitat

First Place
"Nature in Neighborhoods"
Arizona State University
Tempe, Ariz.
Benjamin McDowell
Tyler Stradling
Michael Nicoli
Todd Severson

Second Place
"Living Graft"
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Ga.
Jerry Page
Christopher Van Kley

Third Place
"Daily Migrations"
University of Arizona
School of Landscape Architecture
Tucson, Ariz.
Melisa Kennedy
Brent Jacobsen
Sarah Kosir
Kate Dinsmore
Roby Babcock

Honorable Mention
"terra+scapes"
Pennsylvania State University
School of Landscape Architecture
State College, Pa.
Matt Zambelli

Honorable Mention
"Green Village"
Arizona State University
Tempe, Ariz.
Ashley Poulton
Juan A. Rodriguez Martin
Josh Trommler
Valeria Bravo
Brett Gehring

Category 2: Commercial development and lowland hardwood forest habitat

First Place
"Urban Ecotones"
GreenWorks PC
Bruce Rodgers Design Illustration
Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects
ESA Adolfson
SWCA Environmental Consultants
Portland, Ore.
Jason King
Brett Milligan
Bruce Rodgers
Scott E. Thayer
Michael S. Great
Justin C. Hunt
John Gordon
Christie Galen
Coral Mirth Walker
Kim Gould

Second Place
"Landscape Decompression- Habitat Rebound"
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Landscape Architecture
State College, Pa.
Ken Hendrickson

Honorable Mention
"Re-thinking the Big Box"
University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho
Patrick Sullivan
Jeff Brajcich
Bryan Ferguson

Category 3: Residential infill and oak woodland habitat

First Place
"Urban Savannah, Alley Midlands, Understory Dwellings"
Constructive Form Architecture & Design LLC
Portland, Ore.
Simone Goldfeder
Kina Voelz
Brent Hinrichs
Jason Carlisle

Second Place
"Growing Together"
EDAW
Yost Grube Hall Architects
Seattle, Wash.
Portland, Ore.
Marilee Stander
Sandy Fischer
Bonnie McDonald
Nancy Bird
Kerry McWalter
Linda Howard
Erika Matthias
Lauren Hauck
Todd Bronk
Jeff Bouma
Isaac Brown
Charles Everett
Jim Keany
Karen Strupp
Jan Mulder
Sarah Daniels
Dave Morris
Edward Running
Miles Woofter
Nicole De Jong
Phillip Lopez
Curtis Alling
Ron Unger
Alex Felson

Third Place (tie)
"Roots, Nests & Canopies"
Thalweg Studio
New Orleans, La.
Michael Blum
Molly Buchenberger
Megan Cook
Ross Karsen
Ritchie Katko
Max Goldstein
Jakob Rosenzweig

Third Place (tie)
"Symbiotic Existence Through Transactional Awareness"
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Ga.
Amanda Cook
Katherine Creason
Shraddha Srivastav

Honorable Mention
"re-Story, re-Store"
Portland, Ore.
Nicholas Papaefthimiou
Jonna Papaefthimiou

The award celebration

Metro Council President David Bragdon called the Integrating Habitats Award Celebration "one of those rare moments when you feel a movement coming together." More than 650 people packed the Portland Art Museum's Fields Ballroom to envision the future of restorative design and sustainable growth with world-renowned jurists, regional leaders and multidisciplinary professionals and students. The energy in the room was electric and attendees were engaged in dynamic, interactive activities that included:

• Interviews with videographers
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• Photographs courtesy of John Waller and Brian McLernon of Uncage the Soul Productions
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• Sustainable catering and edgy music
  Download the playlist
• Chatting with two live bloggers
• Voting online for the People's Choice Awards
• Casting a vote via ballot for the Celebration Selection Award, an "instant" People's Choice Award selected from the 13 award winning entries on display at the event. Congratulations to EDAW and Yost Grube Hall Architects, who won the Celebration Selection award with their Category 3 "Growing Together" submission.

Related Documents

• Presentation of award winners 1.8M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published February 26, 2008