The AIA Housing PIA established the Housing PIA Awards program this year to recognize the importance of good housing as a:
• necessity of life
• sanctuary for the human spirit
• valuable resource.

Working in coordination with Architectural Record magazine, the new program recognizes the best in housing design. Categories for the program included single-family housing, multifamily housing, community design, and innovation in housing design. The jury—Chair William H. Kreager, AIA, Mithun Partners, Seattle; Robert Ivy, FAIA, editor-in-chief, Architectural Record; Anne Lewis, FAIA, Washington, D.C.; and Rob Robinson, AIA, Urban Design Associates, Pittsburgh—chose to recognize winners only in the categories of multifamily housing and community design this year. The selected projects are:

Multifamily Housing
Bridgecourt, Emeryville, Calif.
Architect: McLarand, Vasquez & Partners, Inc.
Owner/Developer: Catellus Residential Group

Eighth and Alexander, Charlotte
Architect: David Furman/Architecture, PA
Owner/Developer: Bank of America, CDC; Charlotte Housing
Authority; and Ledic Management Group

Gateway Commons, Emeryville and Oakland, Calif.
Architect: Pyatok Associates
Owners/Developers: Oakland Community Housing, Inc., and Community Development Corporation of Oakland

Jake's Run Condominiums, Portland, Ore.
Architect: Fletcher Farr Ayotte PC
Owner/Developer: Nick Stearns Development

Community Design
Swan's Market Place, Oakland
Architect: Pyatok Associates
Owner/Developer: East Bay Asian Local Development Corp.

Jackson Meadow, St. Croix, Minn.
Architects: Salmela Architect; Coen + Stumpf & Associates
Owner/Developer: Harold Teasdale & Robert Durfey

Addison Circle, Addison, Tex.
Architect: RTKL Associates Inc.
Owner/Developer: Post Properties Inc.

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