President’s Award for Media in Architecture
Category: Advocate for Architecture
The Advocate for Architecture Award celebrates an individual who has made a public contribution to architecture in Canada by means other than the practice of architecture. It recognizes long-term commitment to the profession at a national, regional, or local level.
Medal Recipient: Brent Bellamy
Winnipeg, MB
Architect Brent Bellamy has become a leading advocate for sustainable city building and human-focused design through public speaking, teaching, mentoring, writing, and conventional and social media. Since 2010, Brent has contributed a regular column to the Winnipeg Free Press.
“His passionate advocacy for architecture is responsible for a strong public appreciation of architecture within his community, and beyond.”
Category: Allied Arts
The award honours a Canadian artist or designer for outstanding achievement in artwork created to be integrated with architecture. Any medium allied to architecture is eligible including murals, sculpture, glass, fabric, lighting, furniture, water, sound, site-specific installation, video, digital, and industrial and landscape design.
Medal Recipient: Klaus Nienkämper
Toronto, ON
Over the past 50 years, furniture manufacturer Klaus Nienkämper has collaborated with architects and industrial designers, realizing a broad range of chairs, tables, and sofas to create holistic and integrated architectural spaces.
“Klaus Nienkämper has profoundly contributed to the culture of design in Canada and enriched the quality of architecture that this country has produced through his support and collaboration with significant architects and designers.”
Medal Recipient: Kathryn Walter
Toronto, ON
For almost 20 years, Toronto artist and designer Kathryn Walter has created feature wall installations through collaborations with architects and interior designers. Since founding FELT Studio in 2000, she has worked almost exclusively with industrial, manufactured felt.
“The hands-on collaboration and innovation that Kathryn Walter has brought to her practice has pushed the limits of materiality and added a valuable dimension to the making of architectural space by recognized designers and architects.”
Category: Green Building
The award, given by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Green Building Council® (CaGBC), recognizes outstanding achievement in buildings that are environmentally responsible and promote the health and wellbeing of users.
Medal Recipient: Campus Energy Centre (CEC)
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Completion: 2016
Client: University of British Columbia
Architects: DIALOG
The Campus Energy Centre (CEC) is a state-of-the-art hot water facility that supports the University of British Columbia’s target of eliminating the use of fossil fuels on campus by 2050 and advancing clean energy research.
“The predominant use of mass timber and cross-laminated timber, in place of more typically carbon-intensive structural components, reinforces how a project can be exemplary in responding to local challenges.”
Category: Innovation in Architecture
This award recognizes exceptional architectural innovation. Areas include research and development, applied use of new technology, adaptation of existing technology, project delivery and construction methods, advanced design processes, and fresh approaches to details and materials.
Medal Recipient: Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool
Borden Park
Edmonton, AB
Completion: 2018
Client: City of Edmonton
Architects: gh3*
The Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool is the first chemical-free public outdoor pool to be built in Canada. The design process began with developing a pool technology that cleanses the water through stone, gravel, sand, and botanic filtering processes.
“The Borden Park pool embodies the idea of innovation into an effortless and subtle architectural outcome. The strength of the simple, yet powerful architecture is beautifully integrated with the biological systems that provide healthy user experiences, both physically and psychologically.”
Medal Recipient: The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation
Mohawk College, Fennel Campus
Hamilton, ON
Completion: 2018
Client: Mohawk College
Architects: B+H Architects and McCallumSather
The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation is one of the region’s first and largest net-zero institutional buildings. The facility is helping determine the requirements and standards for the Canadian Green Building Council Zero Carbon Buildings Framework.
“An exemplary building in terms of technical innovation and a powerful learning tool not only for the students but for the whole campus community.”
Certificate of Merit: West Block Rehabilitation Project
Parliament Hill
Ottawa, ON
Completion: 2018
Client: Public Services and Procurement Canada
Architects: Architecture 49 and EVOQ Architecture
The project modernized the 19th-century West Block with state-of-the-art facilities and preserved the heritage and character-defining elements. It also designed a contemporary addition for an interim House of Commons under a glass canopy roof within the courtyard of West Block.
Category: President’s Award for Media in Architecture
Medal Recipient: Alex Bozikovic
The Globe and Mail
Toronto, ON
This award recognizes storytelling about buildings and cities that promotes understanding of architecture and the role of architects in the daily lives of Canadians.
Alex Bozikovic is the architecture critic for The Globe and Mail. In his columns, he mixes reporting and critical analysis to reveal what is happening in the built environment, and to advocate for better buildings and better cities.
“He examines a wide variety of building types, including some that typically escape critical examination, always from the perspective of how the architecture affects the experience of the inhabitants.”