San Diego’s current building boom is producing dozens of new buildings and landscapes — some noteworthy, some cringe worthy.
And the San Diego Architectural Foundation wants locals to speak out.
Nominations opened Wednesday for the group’s annual Orchids & Onions contest, a unique competition nationally to name the best and worst in local architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and miscellaneous categories.
The deadline to submit is July 31 and the results will be announced Oct. 26 at the U.S. Grant Hotel.
“We’ve had up to a couple hundred nominations in some years and in others they’ve dropped down to 80 or 90,” said foundation president Paul de Bartolo, a downtown architectural designer and native of Australia. “In my opinion I’m far more concerned with the quality of nominations than the quantity.”
A jury of seven to nine design professionals will be named later and that group will sort through the nominations, tour about 20 and then vote on the winners and losers.
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