AIA PORTLAND DESIGN AWARDS 2007

Portland, Oregon, has traditionally kept a low architectural style profile compared to other West Coast cities of the United States, such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, with their array of landmarks by star architects.

But this river city is becoming a hot commodity. Numerous publications have christened Portland as America's greenest city. There are more LEED-registered building projects in Portland than any other city in the country.

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Cetra/Ruddy in New York, New York — NBBJ in Palo Alto, California — SHW Group in Lubbock, Texas — Bovis Lend Lease in Melbourne, Australia — HOK in Chicago, Illinois — Gwathmey Siegel in New York, New York...

AUSTRALIAN GOLD FOR RICHARD JOHNSON

Over the course of his 38-year career, Richard Johnson, designer of many major cultural buildings in Sydney, has worked on scales ranging from exhibit design to urban design. His projects have included world expo pavilions, museums, embassies, schools, office buildings, hotels, master plans, and landscape design, many with his current firm, Johnson Pilton Walker of Sydney.

The Australian architect has been awarded the 2008 Gold Medal for Architecture by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA).

PALLADIO AWARDS 2008

The Fonville Press, a cafe and bookstore in the Florida panhandle, combines a 600-square-foot (56-square-meter) shop with two exterior courts. The serenely stylish facility earned Khoury & Vogt Architects one of ten Palladio Awards for 2008.

JEAN NOUVEL PRITZKER PRIZE

In a world where so much contemporary construction is so repetitively mundane, in the majority, and so dissociatively egotistical, in the contrasting minority, it is a deepening pleasure to celebrate poetically bold, eloquently sensitive, contextually beautiful work.

And that's just the celebration we find in the 2008 Pritzker Prize award to Jean Nouvel of France.

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