2008 Cleveland Design Competition Awards
Sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Listed below are last year's three entries selected for First, Second and Third Place. In addition to the three winning submissions, 5 additional projects were selected as noteworthy submissions. To view the award winning entries go to the Project 2008 Design Gallery page.

First Prize
Nini Spagl & Gerald Haselwanter
Vienna, Austria

Second Prize
Sylvain Delboy, Dimitri Boutleux, Sarah Kassler
San Francisco, California

Third Prize
Elise Shelley & James Roche
Toronto, Ontario

Noteworthy Projects:

Katherine Holmok , Leann Andrews, Matt Watson
Parma, Ohio

Jenn Tharp, Nancy Lonnett Roman, Sara Thompson
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jason Slatinsky & Gina Robinson
Charlotte, North Carolina

David Krebs, Lindsay Fallert, John Swidrak, Bryan Black, Ian Rosby
Cleveland, OH

Donguk Lee, Doosan Baek
Seoul, South Korea

2008 Cleveland Design Competition Jury

Casey Jones
Partner, jones|kroloff; Bloomfield Hills, MI

Prior to establishing jones|kroloff, Casey Jones was part of the U.S. General Services Administration’s award-winning Design Excellence Program. He also helped establish and manage the Van Alen Institute, a leading architectural and urban design research center. Casey has taught architecture and urban design at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design in New York City. Read more…

Jawaid Haider
Professor of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA

Professor Haider is an expert on intergenerational and children’s environments and is viewed as one of a handful of authorities on the subject of architectural design as it applies to children’s museums and other learning institutions. His interdisciplinary research underscores how the designed environment can be child-friendly, elder-friendly, and potentially provide improved intergenerational interaction and relationship formation in civic spaces in cities. Read more…

Barry Richards
Senior Associate/Studio Leader, Rockwell Group; New York, NY

Barry Richards is a senior associate and studio leader at Rockwell Group. His education includes undergraduate degrees in Painting and Architecture at the University of Washington and a Masters of Architecture at Princeton. He has worked with clients such as Disney, FAO Schwartz, Barnes & Noble, and Alessi, designing products ranging from kitchen accessories to jewelry. His work has included sets for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hairspray the musical, Omnium Gatherum, a martini glass for Bombay Sapphire, a bar for Esquire/Absolut, a custom lounge chair made of Dupont Corian for Grand Central Terminal, lighting for Baldinger Architectural Lighting, textiles for Design Tex, Rockwell Group’s monograph Pleasure, and sets for Team America: World Police, a film by the creators of South Park.

Patricia Stevens
Chief of Park Planning, Cleveland Metroparks; Cleveland, OH

Patricia is responsible for conversation, open space and recreation initiatives within Cleveland Metroparks and the surround region. Prior to joining the Metroparks in 2003, she served as Principal of Environmental Planning, responsible for environmental design, recreational planning and landscape architectural services at Schmidt Copeland Parker Stevens. Read more…

Cathy Whitehouse
Principal and Chief Educator, The Intergenerational School; Cleveland, OH

Cathy is a founder with her husband Peter of The Intergenerational School – an innovative, successful, urban public school that offers educational and volunteer opportunities to family members of enrolled students and to the older adults in the community. This award winning schools serves learners of all ages from Cleveland and the surrounding suburbs and is committed to excellence in life-long learning and spirited citizenship.