December 2022 Awards of Excellence Issue Highlights
And the winners are…
In October, jurors Betsy Williamson, Louis Lemay, Peter Hargraves, and photo juror Félix Michaud met to adjudicate the 55th annual Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence. They considered 153 professional entries, 30 student entries, and 31 photo entries to arrive at their selection of winners.
The winners are:
AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
Blatchford District Energy Sharing System Sewage Heat Exchange
S2 Architecture (Architect of Record) and gh3* (Design Architect)
Mukwa Waakaa’igan Indigenous Centre of Cultural Excellence
Moriyama & Teshima Architects and Smoke Architecture
Muscowpetung Powwow Arbour
Oxbow Architecture & Richard Kroeker
PHI Contemporary
Pelletier de Fontenay + Kuehn Malvezzi + Jodoin Lamarre Pratte architectes in consortium
AWARDS OF MERIT
Les Ateliers Angus
NÓS
Canoë
AEdifica & ADHOC architectes
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Coeur Nomade Library and Cultural Center
Affleck de la Riva | Coarchitecture
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Hornby Island Arts Centre
D’Arcy Jones Architects
Montreal Holocaust Museum
KPMB Architects + Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker Architecture
Passive(doppler)haus in Search of the Sublime
EDGZ Architecture & Design Studio
STUDENT AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
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Chaos & Control: Complexity of natural systems and the industrialized condition
Johnathan Lum, University of Manitoba
From Loom to Room
Naomi Julien, McGill University
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Subindustria: The Bio-Mechanical Neighbour of Tomorrow
Jon Ackerley, The University of British Columbia
PHOTO AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
The Dory Shop
James Brittain
PHOTO AWARDS OF MERIT
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Vivarium
James Brittain
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The Builder
Jacqueline Young | Stationpoint Photographic
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Waskesiu (elk)
Lisa Stinner-Kun
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Kenaston Building Blanket
Jacqueline Young | Stationpoint Photographic
Read the jury’s full comments here.