Award

“This project is a beautiful and complete expression of the Indigenous program and ethos with which it was designed."

"The very thoughtful use of pattern, repetitive structural elements, and a clever balance of structural systems creates a shelter that hovers over the Prairie…

"The reuse of the existing fabric buildings is economical, sustainable and creates a rich juxtaposition for the modern intervention.”

"Delightful without kitsch.”

"The project proposes a well-designed urban solution to the housing problem."

"With poetry as its inspiration, the rhythm of structure and light envelops spaces that enrich and celebrate the history and soul of the community."

"A modest building that defies the simplicity of its expression with rigorous sectional development."

“The project is about reconciliation more than celebrating pain. It is remarkable at different levels."

"This exploration of a housing typology is an excellent response to issues of climate change, life-work balance, housing security, urban form, and inflation."

"The project is an interesting experiment in optimizing renewable resources, paired with a study of potential assembly systems."

"It creates an unconventional tectonic language, using one material, through which to describe changing spaces, thresholds and openings.”

"The work is evocative: subversive while remaining rigorous in the response to what this might all mean."