REES Brings Home Two Awards at the 2026 Oklahoma Interior Design Awards Celebration
The Oklahoma City Center, part of the IIDA Texas Oklahoma chapter, recognized the amazing talent of Oklahoman interior designers at the annual Oklahoma Interior Design Awards earlier this month. REES received awards in the Government and Ambulatory Healthcare categories.
The Oklahoma Interior Design awards recognize interior design awards that impact the health, safety and welfare of their end users. Each project is also evaluated on their functional, contextual, social, sustainable and cultural characteristics.
City of Edmond City Center Complex – Best in Government
To better serve its growing population, the City of Edmond consolidated departments previously scattered throughout downtown into a centralized City Center Complex. REES designed the complex to include a 60,000-square-foot City Hall, a 14,000-square-foot Municipal Court and a 216-space parking garage. The City Hall brings key departments together in a mix of open and enclosed offices, collaborative meeting spaces and a new council chamber three times the size of the original. The Municipal Court provides dedicated space for court proceedings and conferencing. The parking garage supports city staff while remaining open for public use, enhancing the street scape with exterior artwork. Set back from the street, the building’s design allows public seating and gathering spaces, emphasizing walkability.
Read more about this award-winning here.
Mercy Love Family Women’s Center – Best in Ambulatory Healthcare
The Love Family Women’s Center is a comprehensive destination for women’s health services, meeting the needs of the metropolitan area. This 175,000-square-foot center has 73 patient rooms, increasing Mercy’s capacity for deliveries by 40 percent, or 6,000 births, each year. It offers the state’s first low intervention birthing center with certified midwife care for unexpected complications. The facility’s obstetric emergency room addresses urgent pregnancy-related concerns, another first in Oklahoma City. The center features spacious labor and delivery, postpartum, and antepartum rooms strategically located near C-section surgery suites for express emergency access. A skybridge connects to the existing hospital, providing direct access to the neonatal intensive care unit. Spaces on the ground floor are dedicated to community services such as educational childbirth classes, physical therapy, and support group meetings.
Read more about this award-winning project here.
We are proud to have worked with the City of Edmond and Mercy on these projects! Thank you to IIDA Texas Oklahoma for this recognition. Congratulations to the clients and project team members who brought these designs to life!