Toronto Star

The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art may be the smallest of the cultural projects now transforming the city, but so far it’s also the best. Torontonians voting in the third annual Pug Awards agreed and gave the project an unprecedented approval rating of 81.5 per cent. The Gardiner was one of 22 buildings up for evaluation in the Pugs this year. Eligible structures had to measure more than 50,000 square feet and have been registered in 2006. The vote, which was held online in May, attracted 40,000 entries. Scant support for the Be Bloor condominium, at Bloor and Lansdowne, made it the worst ranked building of the bunch; it received a positive rating on only 2.7 per cent of ballots.