The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) announced its 2010 award winners who represent the best in Ontario architectural design, innovation, and business.
Fifteen new buildings in Fort Erie, Grey Highlands, Mississauga, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ottawa, Toronto, and Walsingham have been honoured. The Lapierre House in St. Catharines and the Queen’s Quay Terminal Building in Toronto both received Landmark Awards as notable examples of the development of architecture in Ontario.
The winners are listed below:
Design Excellence
60 Richmond Street Housing Development
Toronto
Teeple Architects Inc.
Centre for Urban Ecology
Toronto
Taylor Hazell Architects Ltd. with Architects Alliance and gh3 inc.
Fire & Emergency Services Training Institute
Mississauga
Kleinfeldt Mychajlowycz Architects Incorporated
Gerstein Reading Room, Gerstein Science Information Centre
Toronto
Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated
House in Frogs Hollow
Grey Highlands
WILLIAMSONWILLIAMSON INC.
House in Grey Highlands
Grey Highlands
Ian MacDonald Architect Inc.
MaRS Centre
Toronto
Adamson Associates Architects
North House
Cambridge
RVTR
Project Grand Jeté Stage II, The Maitland Street Residence
Toronto
Goldsmith Borgal & Company Ltd. Ar
chitects
Regent Park Revitalization Phase One, Dundas /Sackville Apartments – 246 -252 Sackville Street
Toronto
architectsAlliance
Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
Toronto
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Southbrook Vineyards
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated
Tallgrass Prairie Pavilion
Walsingham
David J. Agro
The Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat
Ottawa
Maki and Associates and Moriyama & Teshima Architects in collaboration
The New Canadian Plaza at the Peace Bridge
Fort Erie
NORR Limited Architects and Engineers
Landmark Award
Lapierre House
St. Catharines
James E. Secord and Saul Herzog
Queen’s Quay Terminal Building
Toronto
Zeidler Partnership Architects
Concepts & Presentations
Artifact
Droplet
Honourable Mention
Esmond Lee
House for the Future Chorus
Honourable Mention
Sean Solowski & Steve Culver
Concepts/Proposals
Re-Crate
Award of Excellence
Negar Jazbi, Przemek Latoszek & Farzam Mohajer, student team
Vacant Lot: Re-Invention of Social Space
Award of Excellence
Marcin L. Sztaba
Balance
Honourable Mention
Atelier Kastelic Buffey Inc. (Kelly Buffey and Robert Kastelic)
Best Emerging Practice
Building Arts Architects Inc.
G. Randy Roberts Service Award
Sheena Sharp
Order of da Vinci
James M. Wight
The 2010 Awards were chosen by juries comprised of a number of members of the public whose interests and background represent the Ontario design community. One hundred and eighty-nine submissions were received and reviewed. The juries are as follows:
Design Excellence Awards
Chair: Larry Richards Professor & Former Dean, University of Toronto
Matthew Searle: Director of Marketing, IIDEX NeoCon Canada
Esther Shipman: Curator, Architecture & Design, Design at Riverside
Gordon Dorrett: Landscape Architect & President, Forrec
Glen Murray: President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute
Concepts & Presentations Awards
Chair: Ivan Martinovic Principal, Archdesign Group Limited, Architects & Former Owner, Urbanscape Gallery
Barbara Astman: Camera Artist & Professor, Ontario College of Art & Design
Gareth Brennan: President & Founder, Eventscape Inc.
Doug Panton: Illustrator/ Designer & Creative Director at Daigneault & Panton Inc.
Landmark, da Vinci, G.Randy Roberts Award, Best Emerging Practice Awards
Chair: Yves Gosselin Project Executive, Public Works and Government Services Canada
Diana Osborne: Architect, Osborne Architect
Greg Redden: Partner, Macdonald Zuberec Ensslen Architects Inc.
Gerrie Doyle: OAA President & Principal, aipm architects inc.
The awards will be presented as the OAA Celebration of Excellence hosted by OAA President Gerrie Doyle, and Evan Solomon will be the Master of Ceremonies on Friday, May 7, 2010 as part of the OAA Conference to be held in Windsor, Ontario from May 5 – 8, 2010. To purchase tickets, please visit www.oaaconferenceregistration.com beginning March 23, 2010.
The OAA Awards offers the Ontario architectural profession an annual opportunity to present its work to a public and professional audience; it advertises the excellence of both individual award-winners and the profession as a whole; it fosters a greater appreciation of architecture and architects among all levels of society, professional and non-professional.
The Ontario Association of Architects is a self-regulating, self-governing profession under the Architects Act. The association governs its members and regulates the practice of architecture in Ontario in order that the public interest may be served and protected. As part of its regulatory mandate, the Association delivers a wide range of programs and services to its members and the public.
For more information, please visit www.oaa.on.ca.