2026 dreamARCHITECTURE Birmingham Winning Artwork

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Kindergarten First Place

Annie Jordan
Crestline Elementary

“It’s rainbow and it’s sunny.”

Kindergarten Second Place

Alex Lange
Advent Episcopal

“It has 21 bedrooms and it has 1 slide and it has 3 dance roombs. It is in the trees. It has bridges to get from tree to tree. Each room has a view.”

Kindergarten Third Place

Cora Ford
Greystone Elementary

“This is the special hotel! You can do everything fun here.”

Kindergarten Honorable Mention

Charlotte Dunn
Advent Episcopal

“My hotel is colld the cat. My hotel is ranbow cat. If you bcum a bilder bild a hotel. Made in 1993. It has a playroom on bottom for toddlers. Café with music on top. It has a whirlpool. There is a gem room where you can look at all types of gems.”

Kindergarten Honorable Mention

Bishop Carroll
Paine Elementary School

“My hotel is in the mountains. I did the outside of my hotel to look like a cabin. My restaurant serves soup and macaroni and cheese.”

First Grade First Place

Preston Schultz
Saint Rose Academy

“You should come to my umazing eel hotel! You can jump out of the Eel and wach sharks! It suks plastic out of the water and makes it into water bottls. And suks water in from the ocean and fills the bottols!”

First Grade Second Place

Luke Yeager
Advent Episcopal

“This is my space hotel. It has 5 floors. It even has its own tour roket. Sadly though, there is a problem whith the left basket ball goal. It even has kid and adults bunk beds. With the privet dinning they can get evrybodys order. Don’t worry we have air tanks and 100% seald walls.”

First Grade Third Place

McKinleigh Griffith
Paine Elementary School

“I chose to add an art room, which is my favorite and have never had in a hotel before. Everything in my hotel is centered around things I like. My hotel is located at the beach.”

First Grade Honorable Mention

Jameson McCord
Paine Elementary School

“My hotel is a clock tower because I love clock towers. They are amazing!”

Second Grade First Place

Karoline Barbera
Saint Rose Academy

“This is the Treehouse Hotel. The sunsets you can see are beautiful! There are paths that are as blue as the sumer sky. And the trees come in all different shades of green! I hope you enjoyed it!” 

Second Grade Second Place

Fatemeh Nadian
Vestavia Hills Elementary East

“You can ride on the fishes. The walls are made with water. You can slide on the seaweed. You can go inside the bubbles. You can flout on the water. You can ask the mermaid for magic. You can change the color of the fish.”  

Second Grade Third Place

Caroline Hammock
Greystone Elementary

“My hotel name is The Strawberry tower hotel. It has a waterslide that connects to a pool with a lader that leads to a hot tub.”

Second Grade Honorable Mention

Lily McRoberts
Crestline Elementary

“My hotel is placed in France. It is a proper hotel. It is for adults and party’s.” 

Second Grade Honorable Mention

Marissa Ridings
Paine Elementary School

“My art teacher help. Miss Brown help me. Art hotel.” 

Second Grade Honorable Mention

Karli Elliott
W.J. Christian School

“My Hotel is made out of wood. My hotel is located in the forest.” 

Third Grade First Place

Abe Sinkey
Advent Episcopal

“Hi, My name is Abe and I’m going to tell you about my hotel. My hotel starts where the yellow brick road ends. My hotel is in the trunk of a tree, in the sky, and in the center of a rock. There is a very long slide at the platform with a door. Theres also a hot tub! When you look in the big window, you’ll see a rock wall and a foam pit. You can also jump on the trampoline.”

Third Grade Second Place

Luca Hinds
Saint Rose Academy

“My dream hotel has everything you need, from food and water to fishing and roller coasters. I’m not going to force you to pick my hotel but if you don’t you’ll miss out. I solved every problem I could think of from making sure people in wheelchairs can come to have fun, to solar panel fish scales and whale sightings, make sure to come to my fish hotel.”

Third Grade Third Place

Genevieve Hesley
Saint Rose Academy

“My sponge hotel is bright and creative. The walls are sponges, which you can paint on. (They are really soft.) You can choose the background of your room! There are many choices. There are ramps as well as stairs, so even handi-cap can come here to paint! My sponge hotel help you be your artistic, unique self!” 

Third Grade Honorable Mention

Brooklyn Arnold
Greystone Elementary

“The hotel is made out of sand. There are two slides. One goes to the beach, the other goes to the ocean. There are five stories and it is 15 ft wide and 8 ft long and 12 ft deep. There is a TV in the bedroom and the sand has gold flakes.” 

Fourth Grade First Place

Shenaya Wijeratne
Hall-Kent Elementary

“My thoughts about my hotel. I think my hotel is very organized and established. I think it’ll be inviting to people in many ways, like the bedrooms are very cozy and they have every thing they need.” 

Fourth Grade Second Place

Michael Lynn Batey
Gardendale Elementary School

“I chose to imagine an under the sea hotel for families, like mine, that love the ocean. All of my proceeds from the hotel go to oceanic conservation. I will build my hotel between the pine trees in Panama City, Florida. The glass fishbowl is made of recycled glass found on the beach. I used driftwood for my ship and the restaurant is made of oyster shells collected from local restaurants. I wanted to create an under the sea hotel because I would love to stay underwater like a mermaid. All rooms are equipped for people with special needs, this way anyone can experience the wonders of the sea and help preserve the ocean.” 

Fourth Grade Third Place

Aidan Couch
Paine Elementary School

“I really like the sun that is why I put a giant window on the ceiling.” 

Fourth Grade Honorable Mention

Mason Smith
W.J. Christian School

“I think my hotel is awesome because it’s in heaven and it’s free. It’s also all all around Heaven.” 

Fifth Grade First Place

Amelia Aitken
Oak Mountain Intermediate

“My hotel is inspired by scooby-doo! It’s purple with green tiles on the roof. My hotel's main attraction is the ghost. My hotel has many windowsn with bright yellow light coming out the windows. One of the interesting things about my hotel is that it’s always night!” 

Fifth Grade Second Place

Grace Hutchinson
Saint Rose Academy

“Hello, my dream hotel is called “a Space Dream.” You can travel to all the planets in seconds by riding in the magic, colorful, portals. There are different activities on all the planets. You can do sports, read, eat, look through a telescope, pray to jesus, go to the water park, and relax at Saturn, which is where your hotel room is. You can even go to Mercury where the hospital is. My hotel solves all the problems because you can’t be stopped with a disability. So come and experience the dream of a life time at “Space Dream.” 

Fifth Grade Third Place

Mary Alice Strout
Edgewood Elementary

“Hi, I’m Mary Alice. This is my dream hotel. It’s set near Casco, Maine. It’s named The Maine Attraction. The reason I chose to put it in Maine is because my father grew up there. My hotel has a porch lounge where the adults can get away from the kids, giant fireplaces, a rooftop garden, an amazing playground for the kids. Since Maine is known for its seafood I added a little lobseter statue (look closely). Thank you for considering my dream hotel.” 

Fifth Grade Honorable Mention

Clara King
Bluff Park Elementary

“Welcome to the Perfect Stay hotel! You can stay here long-term, and there is a cozy room with a fireplace, bookshelf, and a comfy chair to read and relax in. What is your favorite part of this hotel?” 

Fifth Grade Honorable Mention

Juliana Cabrera
Saint Rose Academy

“My Van Gogh Hotel is full of artsey entertainment. In the beautiful village there is plenty to do. There is a farm, many shops, and a haunted mansion. The large has a wonderful view of the village. My hotel is a masterpiece.” 

Fifth Grade Honorable Mention

George Hale
Crestline Elementary

“The squerl hotel is the best because it has a lot of rooms and squrles love it and it has 2 food courts.” 

Overall Third Place Winner

Elliott Clark
Cherokee Bend Elementary

“My hotel is an alien sitting on another hotel. They are the same hotel, but the bottom hotel is where you get food and drinks. You live in the middle or on the feet and legs of the alien. The alien hands are umbrellas.” 

Overall Second Place Winner

Zachary Madonia
Saint Rose Academy

“My tree house hotel is great and OUTDOORS! If your a fan of birds and a morning breeze or watching a sunrise at 5:00, you’re sure to like it here. It’s open air as far as the eye can see. You’ll be living in a tent with everything you’ll need to be happy. It’s got a hamock and a slide. There’s a swing too, but the most amazing thing is the bridge. The bridge has a regular board walk on one side, but an exscalator on the other side! To get up, you step on a platform that takes you up to the top. I hope you’ll come to my TREE HOUSE HOTEL!”

Overall First Place Winner

Agnes Hesley
Saint Rose Academy

“Welcome to my Family Tree Hotel! Your next family reunion destination, where you can walk up the glass staircase in a trunk that has crystals in it, then glide on a triangular zipline course, or zipline to your glass bubble room, where you can enjoy a stunning sunset and stargaze, while inhaling fresh oxygen produced by photosynthesis to meet the global need for clean air! How’s that for a two sentence description?”