The Air Canada enRoute Hotel Design Awards celebrate the best Canadian-designed hotels around the world. The award-winning projects show that no matter where you go, Canadian interior designers and architects are there to make you feel at home.
Air Canada’s enRoute, in partnership with Interior Designers of Canada, Architecture Canada | RAIC and IIDEX Canada, invited Canadian architects and interior designers to submit new and extensively renovated hotels completed between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2012.
To recognize the Canadian architects and interior designers who make our stays memorable, enRoute assembled an international panel of judges to award prizes in 11 categories. This year’s panel included novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland; French industrial designer Matali Crasset; Maxwell Ryan, co-founder of popular design website Apartment Therapy; and hospitality designer Adam D. Tihany. On your next vacation, you may never want to leave the hotel.
* Best Overall Interior Design went to the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto by Glenn Pushelberg and George Yabu (Yabu Pushelberg)
* Best Overall Architecture went to Cabot Links Lodge in Inverness, Nova Scotia by Susan Fitzgerald (Fowler Bauld & Mitchell)
* Best Lobby <150 Rooms went to the James Hotel in Saskatoon by Michael Shugarman (Shugarman Architecture + Design)
* Best Lobby >150 Rooms went to the Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver by Alessandro Munge and Sai Leung (Munge Leung)
* Best Standard Room <150 Rooms went to Les Dortoirs de la Gare, Hôtel La Ferme in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec by Marie-Christine Baillargeon, Katrine Beaudry, Tony Deme, Annie-Claude Gilbert, Kevin McCandless and Cynthia Roy (LemayMichaud Architecture Design)
* Best Standard Room >150+ Rooms went to the Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto by N.Y. Chu, Rachel Glazer, Claudia Leccacorvi and Candace Reid (B+H Chil Design)
* Best Suite <150 Rooms went to Suite La Bergerie, Hôtel La Ferme in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec by Marie-Christine Baillargeon, Katrine Beaudry, Tony Deme, Annie-Claude Gilbert, Kevin McCandless and Cynthia Roy (LemayMichaud Architecture Design)
* Best Suite >150 Rooms went to the Shangri-La Suite, Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto by N.Y. Chu, Rachel Glazer, Claudia Leccacorvi and Candace Reid (B+H Chil Design)
* Best Spa or Pool <150 Rooms went to Hôtel La Ferme in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec by Marie-Christine Baillargeon, Katrine Beaudry, Tony Deme, Annie-Claude Gilbert, Kevin McCandless and Cynthia Roy (LemayMichaud Architecture Design)
* Best Spa or Pool >150 Rooms went to the Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto by N.Y. Chu, Rachel Glazer, Claudia Leccacorvi and Candace Reid (B+H Chil Design)
* Best Restaurant or Bar went to Momofuku, Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto by Allen Chan, Matt Davis and Anwar Mekhayech (The Design Agency) and James Cheng (James K.M. Cheng Architects)
The awards ceremony is happening at IIDEX on Friday September 27, 2013 at the Keynote Theatre in Toronto’s Direct Energy Centre at 2:00pm, just prior to the Hospitality Keynote.
For more information, please visit www.iidexcanada.com/2013/attendee/events/air-canada-enroute-hotel-design-awards.