2025 Lerch Bates
People's Choice Awards Finalists

The polls are open! Cast your vote now and help decide which outstanding projects take home the top honors! Voting closes at 11:59 PM CT on Friday, September 12, 2025.

Winners will be announced on Thursday, September 18 at Designight 2025, Chicago's premier architecture celebration.

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Tall Building  • Unbuilt  • Single Family Residential • Office • Multi-Family Residential • Hospitality & Retail • Healthcare & Research • Education • Community & Civic • Cultural

Community & Civic

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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

City of Appleton Public Library

Appleton, Wisconsin

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Perkins&Will

Damen Green Line Station

Chicago, Illinois

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Partners by Design

Greater Chicago Food Depository

Chicago, Illinois

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GFT

Homewood Illinois Intermodal Station

Homewood, Illinois

Cultural

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Architecture for Public Benefit

Architectural Head Games

Chicago, Illinois

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Michal Koszycki, AIA, and Titus Wonsey

Continuing a Radical Craft: Design Interventions at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Chicago, Illinois

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Wheeler Kearns Architects + Working Group 1

Lookingglass Theatre Lobby

Chicago, Illinois

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Jahn/

Pritzker Military Archives Center

Somers, Wisconsin

Education

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Gensler

Ironworkers Local 63 Training Facility

Broadview, Illinois

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Krueck Sexton Partners

McGrath Family Performing Arts Center

Wilmette, Illinois

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JGMA

Neal Math and Science Academy

North Chicago, Illinois

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CannonDesign

Western Michigan University Student Center

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Healthcare & Research

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Eckenhoff Saunders

Cardiovascular Institute Expansion at Glenbrook Hospital

Glenview, Illinois

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HOK

Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center Expansion

Fairbanks, Alaska

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JGMA

Humboldt Park Wellness Center

Chicago, Illinois

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CannonDesign

Northwestern Medicine - Old Irving Park

Chicago, Illinois

Hospitality & Retail

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Heidi Lightner Architects

The Alston

Chicago, Illinois

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Nurture Architects

Jackson Lake Lodge Restoration

Moran, Wyoming

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RATIO

Journeyman Distillery at the American Factory

Valparaiso, Indiana

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Stantec Architecture Inc.

Virgin Hotels New York

New York, New York

Multi-Family Residential

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Hanna Architects, Inc.

The Ash

Chicago, Illinois

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Lamar Johnson Collaborative

Embry

Chicago, Illinois

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DLR Group

Mass Timber Office + Residences

Austin, Texas

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Valerio Dewalt Train

Solverre

Chicago, Illinois

Office

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Lamar Johnson Collaborative

Boston Consulting Group

Chicago, Illinois

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Lamar Johnson Collaborative

First Bank Headquarters

Saint Louis, Missouri

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Fitzgerald Architecture Planning Design

Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects

Chicago, Illinois

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Range Design & Architecture

Nothing Design Co. Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Single Family Residential

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Heidi Lightner Architects

Chatham Residence

Chicago, Illinois

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Wheeler Kearns Architects

Galien River Retreat

New Buffalo, Michigan

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ERA / Eric Rothfeder Architect

Montgomery Ward Loft

Chicago, Illinois

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Wheeler Kearns Architects

Sawyer Retreat

Sawyer, Michigan

Tall Building

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Jahn/

1000M

Chicago, Illinois

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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

160 Front

Toronto, Ontario

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Goettsch Partners

320 South Canal

Chicago, Illinois

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Gensler and Sterling Bay Design Studio

360 North Green

Chicago, Illinois

Unbuilt

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Epstein

Bainbridge Island Concert Hall

Bainbridge Island, Washington

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JGMA

Bronzeville Evolve

Chicago, Illinois

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Epstein

Silo Hotel

Chicago Illinois

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Stantec Architecture Inc.

Turku Museum of History and the Future

Turku, Finland