The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the OAA Design Excellence Awards. This year’s 20 short-listed projects range from local Ontario homes to Ivy League university buildings in the U.S. to temples in Chile, each demonstrating unique best-in-class design.
“The 2018 finalists have set a new standard for excellence in architecture and represent a dynamic range of bold and cutting-edge thinking that architects in our province are fast becoming renowned for. The projects demonstrate exciting new approaches to functionality that enhance the lives of Ontarians, Canadians and global citizens,” said OAA President, John Stephenson. “Once again, I’m pleased that through the OAA Awards we can celebrate the world-class design and vision of architects based in Ontario that are creating and inspiring powerful contributions for our future.”
Selected from 111 submissions by this year’s jury, the 20 finalists were judged on a number of criteria, including creativity, context, sustainability, good design/good business and legacy. Over the month of March, each finalist will be featured on the OAA blOAAg.
Winners in categories including Design Excellence, Best Emerging Practice, G. Randy Roberts Service Award and Order of da Vinci will be announced on April 3.
2018 OAA Awards – Design Excellence Finalists
Alta Chalet — Town of the Blue Mountains, ON — Atelier Kastelic Buffey Inc.
Bahá’í Temple of South America — Santiago, Chile — Hariri Pontarini Architects
Casey House — Toronto, ON — Hariri Pontarini Architects
CF Toronto Eaton Centre Bridge — Toronto, ON — Zeidler Partnership Architects and WilkinsonEyre
Collaborative Greenhouse Technology Centre — Vineland, ON — Baird Sampson Neuert Architects Inc.
Compass House — Mulmur, ON — Superkül Inc.
Double Duplex — Toronto, ON — Batay-Csorba Architects
Environmental Science and Chemistry Building, UTSC —Scarborough, ON —Diamond Schmitt Architects
House on Ancaster Creek — Ancaster, ON — Williamson Williamson Inc.
House in Mulmur Hill 3 — Mulmur Township, ON — Ian MacDonald Architect Inc.
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building & Louis A. Simpson International Building, Princeton University — Princeton, NJ, USA — KPMB Architects
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University — Evanston, IL, USA — KPMB Architects
Langara College Science & Technology Building — Vancouver, BC — Teeple Architects Inc. in association with Proscenium Architecture + Interiors Inc.
Limelight Bandshell — North York, ON — Paul Raff Studio Incorporated Architect
McEwen School of Architecture/ École d’architecture McEwen — Sudbury, ON — LGA Architectural Partners Ltd.
National Arts Centre Rejuvenation — Ottawa, ON — Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated
Remai Modern — Saskatoon, SK — KPMB Architects and Architecture49 Inc.
Student Learning Centre, Ryerson University — Toronto, ON — Zeidler Partnership Architects and Snøhetta
UBC Aquatics Centre — Vancouver, BC — MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects Ltd. and Acton Ostry Architects Inc.
Wellington Building Rehabilitation — Ottawa, ON — NORR Architects & Engineers Limite