Here are the finalists in the 2016 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition! We reviewed 415 entries to come up with these amazing playhouse designs.
Did your playhouse design make the cut"

Last Friday was a big night here at Life of an Architect World Headquarters 2.0. It was the first round of playhouse judging and we had to go through 415 entries. While that sounds like a lot, it wasn’t that hard to go through most of them. In total, 337 were reviewed from the Houzz Website and the Playhouzz collection, and 78 were previous finalists in the playhouse competition when it was completely handled and processed on my site. As an experiment, the jury is literally still out since I didn’t have anything to do with selecting the winners from Houzz. What I did was get my group of initial judges together and we went through all the entries. We ignored the popular voting numbers on the Houzz site and evaluated the submissions based on:Creativity Constructibility Playability Following the Rules!That last one is a biggie … and by “rules”, I mean the size guidelines.I will go ahead and let you know that of the 337 that were submitted on Houzz, an overwhelming large number of those did not meet the size guidelines and were therefore immediately disqualified. While I think I am a generous person and willing to see past the certain things, exceeding the size requirements is a deal breaker. I briefly thought about showing some of the more egregiou...