By Shawn Williams
Updated: Aug 28, 2021
SEATTLE, WA — October 19, 2017 — GRAY Magazine is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2017 GRAY Awards—a cross-disciplinary design awards program. Out of 363 total submissions, 53 finalists were selected across eleven categories.
Designers and manufacturers were invited to submit design projects across ten categories plus an “editors’ pick” Design for Good category. An esteemed panel of international design stars—including Philippe Starck, Ingo Maurer, Deborah Berke, Karim Rashid, Vicente Wolf, James Corner (Field Operations), Roman Alonso and Steven Johanknecht (Commune Design), and Olivia Kim (Vice President of Creative Projects, Nordstrom)—cast their eye towards the Pacific Northwest.
GRAY Award winners will be revealed November 29, 2017 in a buzzy, much-anticipated party at the prestigious new event space, The Sanctuary, designed by Philippe Starck and ZGF Architects. Breaking all the rules of traditional awards programming, GRAY will surprise attendees with a splashy big reveal. Tickets go on sale October 31.
Winners will receive a custom-designed contemporary glass art trophy, handcrafted exclusively for the GRAY Awards by John Hogan, the critically acclaimed Seattle-based artist and product designer. Plus media partner, v2com, will distribute one press kit for each winner to its international database of journalists. GRAY has also selected the BLOCK Project, a non-profit program started by architects and dedicated to alleviating homelessness in Seattle, as its charitable partner to receive 50% of the GRAY Awards Party ticket proceeds.
Lakeside at Black Butte Ranch, Hacker Architect
L’Angolo Estate, LEVER Architecture
Media Headquarters, Olson Kundig
Slate, Works Progress Architecture
Washington Fruit & Produce Company Headquarters, Graham Baba Architects
Bear Run Cabin, David Coleman Architecture
Collector’s Retreat, Heliotrope Architects
Owl Creek Residence, Skylab Architecture,
SUTEKI, Suteki America with Westlake Development Group and Kengo Kuma and Associates
YARD, Skylab Architecture
Legion, SCHAI
Linea Collection, WHITE/SPACE
Re-Entrance, Fall 2017, SILVAE
Bauhaus Restaurant, Andrea Greenway Interior Design
Knot Springs Spa, Skylab Architecture
Six Hundred Four Shoe Gallery, Māk Interiors
Superbaba, Studio Roslyn
Tableau NorthEdge, Gensler
A.O Basement, Osmose Design
Cliffwood, Finley Grace Design
Elliott House, NB Design Group
Hunts Point Residence, Maison Luxe
Insignia Condo, Brian Paquette Interiors
Juxtaposition, Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture
Lower Rainier Vista, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Pike Place Market, MarketFront Expansion, Berger Partnership
YARD, 2.ink Studio
Boro Boro Chandelier, Neal Aronowitz Design
Ess Lite, 8th And Ash
HALO, Matthew McCormick Studio
Sauvie Sofa, Nicholas Sario, The Flotsam Furniture Works
Whorl Console, Neal Aronowitz Design
Basho, Interstyle
Facet: Gem Ruby, Kush Rugs
Geometric Bar Clocks, Lillian Sinclair Design Co.
PlusMinus, Erdem Selek
Vertical Bar Block, Henrybuilt
Common Ground: Collective Living, Ariel Scholten
Cube^3, Western Washington University – Industrial Design
Kampoeng Kami (Our Village), Gabriel Dwisatria, Cornish College of the Arts
Pearl Hotel, Razan Mohammed, The Art Institute of Portland
Travel Bug, Vi L. Nguyen, Bellevue College
Contours, Acrylicize
FACET, Fraser + Fogle Architects
The Fire Lookout House, Paul Michael Davis Architects, PLLC
Ice Cube, Olson Kundig
UNDRCARD Boxing Studio, McKinley Burkart
Laura’s Place, Architecture Building Culture
Treeline Village, SRG Partnership, Inc.
The Hub, Sawhorse Revolution
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