The Ontario Association of Architects honours Raymond Moriyama … and more than 30 other winners

Raymond Moriyama, one of Canada’s most respected, talented and humanistic architects will take the stage tonight at the Museum of Civilization for The Ontario Associations’ (OAA) Annual Awards Gala, as the award recipient of the OAA’s Lifetime Design Achievement Award.

A hero to many Canadians, Moriyama is a Japanese Canadian who founded in 1958 the planning and design firm now known as Moriyama & Teshima and is well-know for his design of landmark buildings across Ontario and abroad including; Ontario’s Science Centre, the Scarborough Civic Centre, the Toronto Reference Library and the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto; Science North in Sudbury; the National Museum of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh; the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo.

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS ANNOUNCES 2012 AWARD WINNERS

Representing the best in architectural design and innovation, winners of the 2012 Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) Awards include both emerging new talent and some of the province’s most established architecture firms.

Designed by Ontario architects, 15 new built projects in Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Waterloo, Mulmur, Nobel, Vaughan, Peterborough Montreal and Phuket, Thailand, have been distinguished in the ‘Design Excellence’ category. More than 160 submissions judged by a jury of peers from the design community on a variety of criteria including; sustainability, creativity, legacy, good design/good business and overall context, exemplify the significance of architecture in the public realm.

Celebrating forward-thinking design and leadership in architecture, more than 30 winners in nine categories will be recognized at a formal awards ceremony in Ottawa this May. 

2012 OAA Awards  – List of Winners:

Bay Adelaide Centre – West Tower
Toronto, ON
WZMH Architects

Bluepoint Pavilion
Phuket, Thailand
Paul Raff Studio Incorporated Architect

Carling Residence
Nobel, ON
Tact Architecture Inc.

Espace culturel Georges-Émile Lapalme
Montréal, Québec
Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux 
Provencher Roy + Associés Architectes

+HOUSE
Mulmur, ON
superkül Inc., Architect

James Bartleman Archives and Library Materials Centre
Ottawa, ON
Shoalts and Zaback  Architects Ltd. &
Barry J. Hobin and Associates Architects Inc.

Lawren Harris House
Toronto, ON
Drew Mandel Architects

Ottawa Convention Centre
Ottawa, ON
bbb Architects Ottawa Inc.

Rideau Canal Skateway Chalets
Ottawa, ON
CSV Consultants Inc. Architects

Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse
Teeple Architects Inc.
Peterborough, ON

SPLIT House
Toronto, ON
superkül Inc., Architect         

Stephen Hawking Centre at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Waterloo, ON
Teeple Architects Inc.

TIFF Bell Lightbox
Toronto, ON
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects

Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex
Mississauga, ON
Kongats Architects

Vaughan City Hall
Vaughan, ON
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects

Landmark Award

Ryerson Recreation & Athletics Centre
Toronto, ON
Lett/Smith Architects

Concepts & Presentations Awards

Image

Infrastructure
Honourable Mention
Aaron Finbow, Intern architect

Artifact

Gathering Circle at The Spirit Garden, Prince Arthur’s Landing, Thunder Bay
Award                                                                              Brook McIlroy Architects, Ryan Gorrie & The City of Thunder Bay

Regina Gateway
Award
Paul Raff, architect &
Jyhling Lee, architect (SAA)

Timeline Siteline
Honourable Mention
Sean Solowski, intern architect & Peter Osborne, student

Proposals/Concepts

This is (NOT) a Laneway
Award
Maya Janikowski, student

Temagami Wilderness Camp
Award
Rick Galezowski, Intern architect

The Tar Creek Supergrid
Honourable Mention
Amy Norris, Intern architect &
Clint Langevin, Intern architect

Best Emerging Practice

Tact Architecture Inc.

G. Randy Roberts Service Award

Ivan Martinovic

Honour Roll

Graham Adams

Roderick G. Robbie

Lifetime Design Achievement Award

Raymond Moriyama

Order of da Vinci

Robert G. Hill