Grand designs

By Roger Showley, Union-Tribune Staff Writer

2:00 a.m. May 17, 2009

The Jardin de Jade restaurant (top) in Shanghai, with its backlit onyx wall and see-through wine cooler, was built into a 1933 slaughterhouse (bottom). San Diego architect Joseph Wong won top honors for the project. (Kerun Ip) -

For a profession hungry for work in the down economy, about 200 San Diego architects last weekend shed their sackcloth to celebrate the buildings they are designing around us.

The San Diego chapter of American Institute of Architects handed out 14 design awards, saving the most exuberant for last – Joseph Wong's $1.2 million Jardin de Jade restaurant in Shanghai, China. Click here to read the full article online