2006 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence winners

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2006 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence winners

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / December 18

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto/Smith Carter Architects and Engineers of Winnipeg/Prairie Architects Inc. of Winnipeg for the Manitoba Hydro Head Office in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Canadian Architect magazine has announced the winners of its 2006 Awards of Excellence, given each year to architects and architectural graduates for buildings in the design stage. One of only two national award programs devoted exclusively to architecture, the Awards of Excellence have recognized significant building projects in Canada on an annual basis since 1968.

This year's winners have been selected by a jury consisting of Deborah Berke of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects in New York, Talbot Sweetapple of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited in Halifax, and Stephen Teeple of Teeple Architects Inc. in Toronto.

Awards are given for architectural design excellence. Jurors considered response to the program, site, geographical and social context, and evaluated physical organization, structure, materials and environmental features.

Three Awards of Excellence were given to:

Paul Laurendeau Architecte/Jodoin Lamarre Pratte et associés architectes of Montreal for the Salle de Spectacle Desjardins in Dolbeau-Mistassini, Quebec

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto/Smith Carter Architects and Engineers of Winnipeg/Prairie Architects Inc. of Winnipeg for the Manitoba Hydro Head Office in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Peter Cardew Architects of Vancouver for the Garden Wall House in Vancouver, British Columbia

Two Awards of Merit were given to:

Baird Sampson Neuert Architects of Toronto for the Opera Urbanus Old Post Office Plaza in St. Louis, Missouri
HIP Architects/David Murray Architect of Edmonton for the Ukrainian Canadian Archives & Museum of Alberta

And finally, three students were selected as award winners for their respective graduating thesis projects. They are:

Joey Giaimo of the University of British Columbia for Territorializing the Residual
David Coole of the University of British Columbia for A Typological Study of a Kinetic Architecture: Culture + Commerce Mill
Philip Vandermey of the University of Calgary for Experiential Symbiosis

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