Art Category

• ANk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre - Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects + Urbanistes Science Category
• AGreenstone Government of Canada Building, Yellowknife - Manasc Isaac Architects Ltd.
• ALeonard Avenue Modular Housing - Levitt Goodman Architects

Business Category

• AAlberta Children's Hospital Door, Hardware and Access Control Schedule Database - Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Ltd.

Advocate for Architecture

• Larry Wayne Richards, FRAIC

Architectural Firm

• ABaird Sampson Neuert architects

New this year is the Green Building award administered in partnership with the Canada Green Building Council and the first recipient of this award is for the Operations Centre: Gulf Islands National Park Reserve by Larry McFarland Architects Ltd.

The Awards of Excellence are bestowed every two years recognizing the greatest achievement in the category identified. The winners are chosen by a series of juries corresponding to the various categories offered. This year’s juries were comprised of:

• Allied Arts Medal: Anne Carrier, FIRAC; Phillip Pratt, MRAIC; Richard Henriquez, FRAIC
• AInnovation in Architecture: Dan Hanganu, FRAIC; Guy Gosselin, P.Eng.; Richard Williams, MRAIC
• AAdvocate for Architecture: Gaye Kapkin, MRAIC; Michel Dubuc, FIRAC; The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Hon. FRAIC
• AArchitectural Firm: Andy Lynch, FRAIC; Norm Hotson, FRAIC; Marianne McKenna, FRAIC
• AGreen Building: Neil Munro, FRAIC; Daniel Pearl; Guy Favreau, MIRAC

The RAIC Board of Directors appoints an Awards committee who then in turn appoints a jury for each award and anyone except the Awards committee and jury members are eligible to submit for an award. Recipients will be recognized during the OAA/RAIC Conference and Festival of Architecture Presidents’ Gala beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 11, 2007 at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto.