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Prix du XXe Siècle

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and Heritage Canada National Trust wish to promote public awareness about significant Canadian architecture of the 20th century.

The Prix du XXe siècle recognizes outstanding and lasting contributions to Canadian architecture, and landmark buildings in the historical context of Canadian Architecture. This prize celebrates design quality as well as enduring excellence, recognizing buildings that continue to be used as designed or that have successfully accommodated new uses without being altered in ways that detract from the original design intent. The award can recognize a building in Canada, designed by an architect from any country, or a building anywhere in the world that was designed by a Canadian architect.

Submissions will be judged on the following criteria.

  • The building is significant in Canadian architectural terms.

Prix du XXe siècle - Lauréat de 2013

Recipient: 
Collège Massey (1962)
Architect(s): 

Ron Thom (avec Thompson, Berwick & Pratt)

City: 
Toronto
Province / Territory: 
ON

Le Collège Massey (1963) de l’Université de Toronto, qui célèbre cette année son 50e anniversaire, est l’un des bâtiments les plus admirés sur un campus riche en bâtiments qui suscitent l’admiration. Conçu par Ron Thom, architecte canadien de renom, le Collège répond aux besoins énoncés, s’inscrit judicieusement dans son contexte architectural et rompt avec les tendances du jour en déployant plusieurs formes historiques sous une même forme.

Prix du XXe siècle - Lauréat de 2014

Recipient: 
Hôtel de ville de Toronto et place Nathan Phillips (1965)
Architect(s): 

Viljo Revell et John. B. Parkin Associates
(maintenant NORR Limited Architects Engineers Planners)

City: 
Toronto
Province / Territory: 
ON

En cette période où le maire de Toronto est la risée du monde, il est réconfortant de revenir en arrière à une époque où son prédécesseur, le maire Nathan Phillips, appuyait un concours international pour la conception d’un nouvel hôtel de ville qui a placé Toronto et le Canada au centre de l’échiquier mondial de l’architecture.

Le concours lancé en 1958 a attiré 520 candidatures provenant de 44 pays. Il a été remporté par l’architecte finlandais Viljo Revel qui s’est associé avec la firme locale John B. Parkin Associates. La construction s’est achevée en 1965.

Prix du XXe siècle - Lauréat de 2014

Recipient: 
Maison Strutt (1956)
Architect(s): 

James W. Strutt

City: 
Gatineau
Province / Territory: 
QC

James W. Strutt était d’accord avec ceux qui considèrent que sa maison est une œuvre maîtresse de sa longue et brillante carrière d’architecte canadien.

Situé à Aylmer, au Québec, le bâtiment est beaucoup plus que la simple intégration des principes de structure, de science du bâtiment et de planification.

La maison est l’une des premières au Canada à utiliser le « mur rideau » comme enveloppe. Sa toiture paraboloïde hyperbolique en bois était aussi une première, tant au Canada qu’ailleurs dans le monde.

Prix du XXe siècle - 2007 Recipient

Recipient: 
Wolf House (1967)
Architect(s): 

Diamond & Myers (designed by Barton Myers)

City: 
Toronto
Province / Territory: 
ON

Sited on the edge of a beautifully wooded ravine park in Toronto, this residence has an exterior central courtyard, separating flexible living units front and back; glass walls bringing in daylight and affording views to the park.

Prix du XXe siècle - 2007 Recipient

Recipient: 
The Toronto Dominion Centre - 1967 (First phase); 1991 (Sixth phase)
Architect(s): 

Toronto Dominion Bank Tower, Royal Trust Tower, Commercial Union Tower (now called Canadian Pacific Tower), and Banking Hall
Architects: Bregman + Hamann Architects and John B. Parkin Associates (in joint venture)
Design consultant: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

IBM Tower (now called TD Waterhouse Tower)
Architect: Bregman + Hamann Architects

Ernst & Young Tower
Architects: Bregman + Hamann Architects and Scott Associates (in joint venture)

City: 
Toronto
Province / Territory: 
ON

A large cluster of buildings in downtown Toronto, consisting of six towers, covered in bronze-tinted glass and black painted steel. Three structures are arranged on a granite plinth, with the Banking Pavilion anchoring the site at the corner of King and Bay Streets.

Prix du XXe siècle - 2007 Recipient

Recipient: 
Simon Fraser University (1965)
Architect(s): 

Erickson/Massey

City: 
Burnaby
Province / Territory: 
BC

SFU’s architecture takes advantage of the extraordinary beauty of the site by placing the academic complex at the highest point and bridging the lower points with a pedestrian mall. The mall is a kind of aerial campus. The heart of the mall, the principal meeting place outside the library, is covered by a glass roof for year-round protection.

Prix du XXe siècle - 2011 Recipient

Recipient: 
The Museum of Anthropology at UBC (1971-76)
Architect(s): 

Arthur Erickson Architects

City: 
Vancouver
Province / Territory: 
BC

The building aptly captures both the landscape of the West Coast and the spirit of the First Nations People...Arthur Erickson has created many poignant buildings in Canada, but none capture the Canadian identity as powerfully as the UBC Museum of Anthropology, which sits proudly as the Pantheon of the West Coast Spirit, more so the spirit of Canadian architecture.

Prix du XXe siècle - 2011 Recipient

Recipient: 
Robson Square (1973-1983)
Architect(s): 

Arthur Erickson Architects

City: 
Vancouver
Province / Territory: 
BC

Robson Square is a modern landmark in the City of Vancouver, a unique civic complex three blocks long, a masterwork by Arthur Erickson conceived and designed as a single entity. It won the prestigious American Society of Landscape Architects President's Award of Excellence in 1979, where the jury commented on the "extraordinary integration of landscape architecture with architecture--consistent and coherent." Envisioned by Arthur Erickson and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander as a "linear urban park, importing nature into the city", this was a bold, contemplative work of urban design.

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