AIA Oregon PCA Winners

This year, we held a multi-section People’s Choice Awards (PCA).

By including multiple sections in the PCA, we set out to achieve multiple benefits for the Oregon Chapter members:

1. Provide an opportunity for outreach from AIA Oregon to educate the public about the importance of architecture and what it involves.

2. Provide an opportunity to share with the public and other AIA Oregon section members the variety of architecture happening across the state.

3. Provide an opportunity for members architects to showcase their designs to a larger audience.

4. Develop a consistent PCA format for all sections of AIA Oregon.

5. Reduce the amount of effort for AIA Oregon staff by having a single PCA awards (rather than multiple PCA efforts).

6. Provide a path for AIA Oregon section members to earn entry into the Oregon Architecture Awards (OAA).

This year, participation in the PCA included three sections: Bend, Eugene, and Southern Oregon. Each section displayed all entries to the PCA at venues in 3 different cities (Bend, Eugene, and Medford). Each entry competed only within their section, with winners selected by on-line public voting. For the sections that had multiple categories, a winner was selected by the public voting in each category.

The winners of the 2026 People’s Choice Awards have been selected:
(See the Full Gallery of Entries Here)

BEND:

First Place:

Discovery Corner Live Work Townhomes (Ten Over Studio)

Second Place:

The Grove (Hacker Architects)

EUGENE:

Eugene Commercial/Public Institutional

Lane transit District Ops Command Center  (Pivot Architecture)

Eugene Landscape Architecture

Ford’s Pond (DLA, Inc.)

Eugene Multi-Family Residential

Alma Apartments (Rowell Brokaw Architects)

Eugene Residential

McKenzie Waters (Willard C. Dixon Architect)

Eugene Unbuilt

Zip-O-Log Mills Headquarters (Rowell Brokaw Architects)

SOUTHERN OREGON:

Southern Commercial

Quady North – Production Facility and Tasting Room (S&B James Construction | Design-Build)

Southern Public/Institutional

Rogue Primary School (arkitek: design & architecture)

Southern Residential

Meadowbrook Mixed Use (Oregon Architecture, Inc.)

Southern Unbuilt

SOU Schneider Museum of Art (arkitek: design & architecture) 

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2026 People’s Choice Awards! Winners will be recognized at their local Summer Social. Sign up for your local section’s Summer Social through the AIA Oregon website.

Oregon Architecture Awards

Winners can submit their projects to the 2026 Oregon Architecture Awards (OAA) without additional fees! The OAA ceremony will be held the last day of the 2026 Oregon Design Conference (ODC) and is included in the price of your ticket to ODC! Registration is open now for the ODC held in Portland, September 23-25. Sign up now for three days of AIA Oregon activities including keynotes, tours, education, awards recognition, and community building!