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.
John B. Parkin Architects (Successor Firm, NORR Limited)
One of the best known truly modernist buildings in Ottawa and an iconic structure that is spoken of with admiration by the public it serves and design professionals alike. If enduring design quality is an implied criteria for this award, then this building fully meets the criterion.
Clifford Wiens
The building provides heated and chilled water to the University of Regina campus buildings and is distinguished by a unique A-frame form of exposed pre-cast concrete and corten steel. The plant has been a landmark in Regina since it was first built 40 years ago and remains an example of innovative and expressive modernist architecture.
Hemingway and Laubenthal Architects
The Hemingway Fitness & Leisure Centre by Peter Hemingway was commissioned as a project to mark Canada’s centennial for Edmonton. Originally named Coronation Pool this stunning facility displays a flowing-wave in its roof structure suspended with cables and bold outlines made with contrasting materials such as heavy timber, concrete, steel and glass. The facility, completed in 1970, reflects the modern architecture movement of the 1960s in Canada’s prairie provinces.
Douglas Cardinal, FRAIC
Grande Prairie Regional College is an early representative work of a prominent Canadian architect, an instantly recognizable structure which is a significant landmark in Northwestern Alberta, and a building which for more than three decades has helped build the sense of community in Grande Prairie.
Ron Thom (with Thompson, Berwick & Pratt)
Currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, University of Toronto’s Massey College (1963) is one of the most admired buildings on a campus rich with admired buildings. Designed by renowned Canadian architect Ron Thom, the College successfully achieves its project requirements, responds thoughtfully to its architectural context, breaks with trends of the day by folding several historical forms into a single form, and creates a stunning precedent anticipating design trends in Canada and internationally.
Viljo Revell and John. B. Parkin Associates
(now NORR Limited Architects Engineers Planners)
At a time when the Mayor of Toronto is a figure of global ridicule, it is refreshing to look back to when his predecessor Mayor Nathan Phillips supported an international competition for a new city hall that put Toronto and Canada at the center of global architectural interest.
The 1958 competition attracted 520 entries from 44 countries and was won by a team led by the Finnish architect Viljo Revel. He affiliated with John B. Parkin Associates and the building was completed by 1965.
James W. Strutt
The architect, Jim Strutt, is one of many that consider his own house to be a 'signature piece' of his long and distinguished career as a Canadian architect.
Located in Aylmer, QC, the building is a deceptively simple integration of structure, building science and planning.
The house is one of the first in Canada to utilize a 'curtain wall' as the building envelope. The wooden hyperbolic paraboloid roof was not only the first in Canada, but of its particular construction anywhere.
Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise
(later ARCOP, now Architecture | 49)
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Photo: Confederation Centre of the Arts |
