Students’ creativity recognized at dreamArchitecture awards ceremony

The 21st annual dreamArchitecture Art Contest held its awards ceremony May 4 at the SawWorks Studio at ArchitectureWorks. More than 30 winning students were awarded prizes for their creativity and imagination for this year’s theme, “Draw Your DreamSpace Station.”

The Alabama Center for Architecture and the Birmingham Chapter of the American Institute of Architects sponsor dreamArchitecture as a community outreach project. Open to elementary schoolchildren in the Birmingham area, the competition stimulates children to think about architecture and their built environment. This year’s competition had nearly 1,900 entries from 22 schools, a record year for the program.

The jury, composed of local artists, architects and designers, chose 33 winners. The overall winner was Andy Juarez, a first-grader from EPIC Elementary School in Birmingham.

Trussville City Schools had one winner: Cayden Hawthorne, a third-grade student from Paine Elementary, who won an honorable mention award in his age group.

– Submitted by the Alabama Center for Architecture.