American Institute of Architects Fellow, Peter Q. Bohlin was awarded the AIA Gold Medal, the Institute’s highest accommodation to an exceptional architect whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. The AIA Gold Medal, voted on annually, is considered to be the profession's highest honor that an individual can receive. Peter will be honored at the 2010 AIA National Convention in Miami.

Mr. Bohlin’s work is visible in Ritter and Rotary Parks. The lower Rotary Park athletic fields, picnic shelters, playground, and parking lots were designed by him and his firm Bohlin Cwynksi Jackson (BCJ); the most recent being the Rotary Park Rotary Club of Huntington shelter.

Both the original Ritter Park Playground and the Junior League of Huntington Island Playground, dedicated this past summer, are Peter’s and BCJ creations.  Moreover, the Ritter Park Tennis Center and the Ritter Park Rose Garden Room with a View are representative of his work.

Over the years Peter and his company have received many awards, two of which were for his initial Ritter Park Playground project and his Coal Street project in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania.

The latter was also done in close coordination with Jim McClelland, who in the late 60’s and early 70’s, was the Director of the Wilkes-Barre Recreation Board.