AWARDS Archives - Mayer Reed

Celebrating 11 Fall Design Awards

Mayer/Reed is honored to be involved in so many award-winning projects this fall. They vary in scale, setting and purpose, but all share a common goal: serving the communities they are built for. We take great pride working with clients and communities to shape thoughtful, welcoming environments. Congratulations to all our design partners on these well-deserved recognitions.

OHSU Vista Pavilion, Portland, OR
AIA Oregon 2026 Honor Award
NBBJ | Mayer/Reed Landscape Architecture

East County Library, Gresham, OR
AIA Oregon 2026 Honor Award
Holst Architecture | Mayer/Reed Signage + Wayfinding

Midland Library, Portland, OR
AIA Oregon 2026 Merit Award
Bora Architecture & Interiors | Mayer/Reed Signage + Wayfinding

Redmond Senior & Community Center, Redmond, WA
AIA Oregon 2026 Merit Award
Opsis Architecture | Mayer/Reed Wayfinding + Graphics

U.S. Embassy Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay
AIA Oregon 2026 Merit Award
ZGF Architects | Mayer/Reed Signage + Wayfinding

Benson Polytechnic High School, Portland, OR
AIA Oregon 2026 Merit Award
Bassetti Architects | Mayer/Reed Landscape Architecture

Lincoln High School, Portland, Oregon
AIA Oregon 2026 Citation
Bora Architecture & Interiors | Mayer/Reed Landscape Architecture

Clackamas County Courthouse, Oregon City, OR
AIA Oregon 2026 Citation
DLR Group | Mayer/Reed Signage + Wayfinding

Mt. Scott Community Center, Portland, OR
ORPA 2026 Design and Construction Award
FFA Architecture and Interiors | Mayer/Reed Landscape Architecture

Concord Community Center Renovation, Oak Grove, OR
Restore Oregon 2026 DeMuro Award
Opsis Architecture | Mayer/Reed Wayfinding + Graphics

Oak Lodge Library, Oak Grove, OR
ALA 2026 Library Design Showcase Top 15 Projects
Opsis Architecture | Mayer/Reed Wayfinding + Graphics

Carol Mayer-Reed, FASLA, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

At this year’s DJC Oregon Women of Vision Awards, Mayer/Reed Founding Partner Emeritus Carol Mayer-Reed, FASLA, will be honored with the Lois Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes Carol’s pioneering leadership in landscape architecture and lasting contributions to communities of the Pacific Northwest.

“What distinguishes Carol’s leadership is her combination of vision and pragmatism. She has consistently brought ambitious ideas into complex, real-world projects through collaboration, persistence and careful attention to people and place,” says Erica Rife, Executive Director of the Architecture Foundation of Oregon and award nominator. “Her legacy is not only the remarkable places she helped create, but also the expanded vision of what landscape architecture—and landscape architects—can contribute to Oregon’s future.”

In 1983, Carol established her own landscape architecture practice, and in 1987 she formalized a partnership with Michael Reed to create the interdisciplinary design firm, Mayer/Reed. Her visionary work helped shape signature places throughout the Pacific Northwest and continues to demonstrate how landscape architecture can be a powerful tool for civic engagement, urban renewal and ecological transformation. Her portfolio includes the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade, Rain Garden at the Oregon Convention Center, MAX Orange Line, Bend’s Old Mill District, Willamette Falls Riverwalk Concept Design, the OMSI District Central City Master Plan, renovations at the Oregon State Capitol and Vista Pavilion at Oregon Health Sciences University.

Carol is recognized nationally as ASLA Fellow and continues to contribute to community initiatives in the region. Throughout her career, she has remained invested in the next generation. She was a founding board member of Oregon’s ACE Mentor Program that connects high school students with careers in architecture, construction and engineering. She served on the board of the Architecture Foundation of Oregon, supporting programs including Architects in Schools, and spent nine years on the Board of Visitors at the University of Oregon.

Carol’s legacy is woven into Mayer/Reed. She founded the firm as a women-owned business at a time when women were underrepresented in leadership across the design professions. Today, the firm remains a women-owned business led by Kathy Fry, SEDG, Shannon Simms, ASLA, and Jeramie Shane, ASLA. Principals and owners Kathy Fry and Shannon Simms are past DJC Women of Vision Honorees.

We are proud to celebrate Carol and this well-deserved recognition of her remarkable career, the practice she built and the lasting influence she continues to have on our profession and community.

Ten “Top Projects” of 2026

The Daily Journal of Commerce (DJC) Oregon 2026 Top Projects Awards honor the region’s most outstanding construction and design projects. Mayer/Reed is honored to be a collaborator on 10 of the award winners this year. Congratulations to all our design team members and fellow honorees.

• Benson Polytechnic High School
Bassetti Architects, Mayer/Reed Landscape Architecture

• Blue Lake Park Operations and Maintenance Facility
FFA, Mayer/Reed Landscape Architecture

• Hops Ballpark
CannonDesign and Populous, Mayer/Reed Landscape Architecture

• Mt. Scott Community Center
FFA, Mayer/Reed Landscape Architecture

• Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Perkins + Will, Mayer/Reed Landscape Architecture and Wayfinding

• City of Bend Public Works Campus
Hennebery Eddy Architects, Mayer/Reed Wayfinding and Signage

• Clackamas County Circuit Courthouse
DLR Group, Mayer/Reed Wayfinding and Signage

• Oak Lodge Library
Opsis Architecture, Mayer/Reed Wayfinding and Signage

• Albina Library
LEVER Architecture and Noll & Tam Architects, Mayer/Reed Wayfinding and Signage

• Portal
SERA Architects, Mayer/Reed Wayfinding and Graphics

Art Gate Wins SEGD Global Design Award

“A brilliant collision of community, typography, language, and identity, all in a single plane of metal. Bravo!” — Juror

The art gate at Washington School for the Deaf received a Merit Award at the 2025 SEGD Global Design Awards. Mayer/Reed Senior Designer and Associate Debbie Shaw attended the November 13 ceremony in San Francisco to accept the honor. The awards recognize innovation in experiential design, celebrating projects that shape how people experience the built environment. The Mayer/Reed-designed art gate was one of 30 winners out of nearly 300 submissions at the international awards program this year.

The 72-foot gate, laser-cut with custom hand-lettering, is a focal point of the campus redesign by Mithun and Skanska. The jury praised the art gate’s “…beautifully crafted design that marries sophisticated metal work with the youthfulness of primary education and the building blocks of learning language. The best part of this installation is the shadows it projects on the ground, making the ASL signs a multidimensional fabric of the campus.”