Sarasota National Cemetery’s $12M Patriot Plaza nominated for state architecture award

SARASOTA Patriot Plaza, the ceremonial amphitheater at Sarasota National Cemetery, has been nominated for The Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects People’s Choice Award for 2016. Patriot Plaza won the Juried and People’s Choice awards in a local-level architecture competition last month.

Patriot Plaza is one of 39 projects throughout the state nominated by local AIA chapters for this year’s award. More than 1 million total votes have been submitted in the previous two years of the competition.

Visit ow.ly/ZS1e301B9ir through July 22 to vote for Patriot Plaza in the AIA Florida People’s Choice Competition. There is no limit to the number of votes an individual can cast. To learn more about Patriot Plaza, visit patriotplaza.thepattersonfoundation.org.

Herald staff report

This story was originally published July 12, 2016 at 5:28 PM with the headline "Sarasota National Cemetery’s $12M Patriot Plaza nominated for state architecture award."