AIA Announces Surprising Batch of 2008 Honor Awards

Big winners and lots of interesting things to look at late yesterday, as the American Institute of Architects announced the winners of their 2008 Honor Awards, picking twenty-eight winners from nearly a thousand entries. And strangely, nearly all of them are projects in the US, save for just three, one in Toronto, another in Korea and the last in England. Two even bigger surprises were 1) one of their top picks for straight-on architecture is in Seattle, a place the organization was