I took it as a challenge to design and build the awards that will be presented to the finalists of this years Playhouse Design Competition. I am happy to say that the final product turned out better than I expected.

This turned out to be a lot more challenging than I had anticipated but I am happy to say that the Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition Awards are finally complete! It took a lot of work and the involvement of some other very generous people, and I thought that I would take some time today to talk about how these awards got from a sketch into a final product that will hopefully be prominently and proudly displayed to the people who receive them as a token of my deep and sincere appreciation.Here they are – at the end of last week, I was finally able to assemble all the parts and sometime over the next week or so, these should be going out in the mail … just in time or Christmas. In all, there are 36 awards to be distributed – 28 to the Finalists of the 2015 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition, and 1 apiece to Dallas CASA, Humanetics, and to the contractors who built this year’s winning playhouses. If you consider yourself a designer, you should design everything.Bob Borson, June 15, 2015 This was the sketch that started the entire process of designing and fabricating these awards. I thought it could be iconic and simple, but just like the playhouses whose designs are deceptively complicated, these awar...