Based in Vancouver, Architectura has developed a diverse project base that includes airports and other transportation facilities, community, commercial, education and hospitality buildings as well as attractions and interior design. Recognition has included a number of medals and peer awards for design; this is the firm’s second Canadian Architect award. Established in 1988, Walter Francl Architect Inc. is committed to a regional response to architectural design that can clearly express the user’s program and its response to site and context. Architectura and Walter Francl Architect have collaborated on a number of architectural and planning projects including the recent AIBC-award winning Braid Street SkyTrain station.
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Baird Sampson Neuert Architects Inc. develops an integrated approach to the design of landscape and architectural environments which is responsive to the particular qualities of specific sites and programmes. This approach engages and interprets their context and contributes to a memorable sense of place. This is BSN’s sixth Canadian Architect award.
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Provencher Roy et associs (founded in 1983), Desnoyers Mercure et associs (founded in 1957) and Menks Shooner Dagenais architectes (founded in 1995) joined their efforts to design the J.-Armand Bombardier pavilion located on the University of Montreal campus. All three firms are renowned for their high quality institutional, laboratory and commercial projects. The high level of performance of each firm has been recognized on numerous occasions with prizes, honours and distinctions such as the Governor General’s Award, Canadian Architect Awards, OAQ Awards of Excellence and Sauvons Montral’s Orange Awards.
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“The work of Brian MacKay-Lyons arises out of a close observation of ordinary buildings in the Maritimes, rather than from the conventions of a received vocabulary and aesthetic. Yet the work is quite consciously that of architecture as it embraces the history of architecture. It does so by drawing on the evolutionary process of that history–a process whereby form arises and is refined from earlier forms. Pevsner’s duality does not apply to this work. There is a shed in the heart of every cathedral, a cathedral is the potential of every shed.”–Essy Baniassad
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Marc Boutin Architect, established in 1997, explores cultural issues related to the contemporary city. As such, relevant projects of varying scales are pursued. The firm has been awarded competition prizes and design awards, including three Prairie Design Awards (2000, 2002), a 1999 Canadian Architect Award, and a 2001 City of Calgary Heritage Award. Marc Boutin is the current recipient of the Prix de Rome, and is studying the transformative potential of public space infrastructure. ID8 Design Group is a multi-disciplinary design firm established in 2001 as a partnership between Tony Leong, Dave Goulden, and Marc Boutin. Influenced by the confluence of various disciplines, including art, graphic design, digital design, and architectural design, the work has been recognized by competition wins including the Edmonton Gateway Competition, an aluminum installation entitled No. 23 that engages the force of the wind. Current projects, such as graphic and Web-based design for the University of Calgary, includes the Web site for the school of architecture. Above, left to right: Marc Boutin, Dave Goulden, Erin Joly, and Tony Leong.
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Architects Alliance was established in 1999 in Toronto out of a merger between Wallman Clewes Bergman Architects and van Nostrand DiCastri Architects. Pursuing a broad-ranged academic, institutional and residential practice, the firm explores a core set of ideas about the central role that architecture and planning can play in creating and sustaining vital urban communities. The staff of 60 includes architects, planners, engineers, designers, and technologists. Last year, the firm won a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for Modern on the Park.
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Over the past 15 years Henriquez Partners‘ 30-year practice in Vancouver has attempted to address ambivalent feelings about responses to the changing context of “city building.” As a result the firm connects literature to architecture and develops projects whose point of departure is the telling of the story of this change. Projects are designed to resonate with the histories of their particular sites and in some cases the interweaving of fictitious scenarios into these stories when the actual ones do not have the substance to inform the architecture.
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Established in Vancouver B.C. in 1980, Peter Cardew Architects has received 10 Canadian Architect awards, two Governor General’s awards, three Lieutenant Governor’s awards, three Progressive Architecture awards.
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William Galloway holds a B. Env. Des. (Arch.) and an M.Arch. from the University of Manitoba. He has worked recently as Senior Designer at Fukumi Architects and Associates Ltd. in Toyama, Japan. He has been awarded the AIA Student Medal, the RAIC Honour Roll and the AIA/AAF Scholarship for First Professional Degree Candidates.
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Jean-Nicolas Faguy and Gabriel Rivest both received B. Arch. Sci. degrees last year from Universit Laval in Quebec City. Ngo Le Minh is a Master’s student and an Assistant Professor at the cole Nationale Suprieure de Gnie Civil de Hanoi, Vietnam. During his one-year exchange at Laval, he teamed up with Faguy and Rivest. The Quebec City International Airport project has garnered a 2002 ACSA/STI Award of Excellence for Design and Engineering.