Canadian Architecture News

Montreal announces winners of festival street furniture competition

Paul Clerkin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:05:19 +0000

The Mayor of Montréal, Gérald Tremblay, has announced the winners of the design competition to develop movable street furniture elements for use by festivals. Among the five finalist concepts, the jury selected the proposal submitted by Morelli Designers and Signature Design Communication. “At Rendez-vous November 2007 – Montréal, Cultural Metropolis, the city made a firm [...]

Heritage reborn

Paul Clerkin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:39:44 +0000

For the past 17 years, the Union Bank Tower at the corner of Main Street and William Avenue sat vacant because the cost of renovating the 104-year-old heritage building proved prohibitive to developers. Now, the redevelopment of the national historic site is moving forward because architects and engineers figured out they could save an old [...]

Navy monument contest already making waves

Paul Clerkin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:01:12 +0000

A new national monument in Ottawa honouring the Canadian navy promises to provoke strong public response long before it is unveiled, judging by the reaction of those who attended a public display of proposed designs Thursday. About 200 people, including many naval personnel, streamed through the government Conference Centre on Rideau Street to view the designs [...]

Allied Works Architecture selected to design Cantos Music Centre project in Calgary

Paul Clerkin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:53:32 +0000

Cantos Music Foundation have announced that Allied Works Architecture and local partner BKDI have been selected to design Cantos’ new national music centre at the King Eddy site in Calgary’s East Village. After an extensive worldwide search and impressive public presentations from five international architects, this highly anticipated announcement is a milestone event in the [...]

Two Waterfront Toronto projects win urban design awards

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:38:57 +0000

Waterfront Toronto’s Spadina WaveDeck and Master Plan for Lake Ontario Park have each been awarded 2009 Toronto Urban Design Awards. Spadina WaveDeck earned an Award of Excellence in the Small Open Space category and the Master Plan for Lake Ontario Park was awarded an Honourable Mention in the Vision and Masterplan category. The City of [...]

35th annual Heritage Toronto Awards announced on October 13th

Paul Clerkin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:26:57 +0000

On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at the historic Carlu, Heritage Toronto will celebrate outstanding contributions by individuals and community organizations, as well as industry professionals and associations, in promoting and conserving Toronto’s history and heritage landmarks. Hosting the Heritage Toronto Awards this year is CBC Radio’s Mary Ito. In 2009, Heritage Toronto will be presenting its [...]

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada call for submissions for the 2010 Governor General’s Medals

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:28:27 +0000

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and The Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) are pleased to invite architects to participate in the competition for the 2010 Governor General’s Medals in Architecture. The RAIC, with the RAIC College of Fellows, is proud to organize and administer the competition in partnership with the Canada Council [...]

Richmond Olympic Oval shortlisted for World Architecture Festival Award

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:26:44 +0000

The Richmond Olympic Oval, designed by Cannon Design Architecture Inc. for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Award’s Structural Design Award. Shortlisted nominees include entrees from the UK, Japan and Indonesia, among others. Award recipients will be announced at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona which takes [...]

Broadway Tech Centre wins Green Roofs Award of Excellence

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:03:46 +0000

The ground-breaking Broadway Tech Centre, owned by British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, (bcIMC), and developed by Bentall Limited Partnership, (Bentall), has won a 2009 Green Roofs Award of Excellence for ‘Best Commercial Intensive Rooftop Garden’. These prestigious awards, which recognize excellence in innovative and integrated green roof design, were established in 2003 by Green Roofs [...]

Moisture plagues ‘impermeable’ gallery

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:07:57 +0000

The new Frank Gehry-designed Art Gallery of Ontario, designed as an impregnable fortress against the harsh Canadian weather, is already showing chinks in its armour. Recent visitors to the newly reopened and much celebrated Toronto gallery have been shocked to find condensation fogging up and streaming down many of its outer windows, while buckets dot [...]