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At Hollywood's People's Choice awards, you're likely to meet an aspiring ingénue wearing a strapless, sequined dress that looks like a Bedazzler threw up onto it.

At Metro's Integrating Habitats People's Choice awards, well, you'd probably just meet some architects. Their scarves are generally not bedazzled.

The point of the competition, which had approximately 100 applicants, was to give landscape architects an opportunity to flex their creative muscles and design a project that weighed "the needs of animals, humans and our environment on the same scale."

And Metro announced yesterday that - envelope, please - Yost Grube Hall Architects won the "Best in Competition" award for its "Growing Together" design.

Congratulations for winning the only People's choice award that matters -- to architects, at least.