Winners of Canada's Highest Architectural Awards Published

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada just announced the recipients of the 2009 RAIC Awards of Excellence.

Allied Arts Medal

Paul Raff, MRAIC

Innovation in Architecture

130 Bloor Street West (Quadrangle Architects Limited)

Prince George Airport (McFarlane | Green | Biggar Architecture + Design Inc.)

Richmond Olympic Oval (Cannon Design)

Honorable Mentions

Bluepoint Louver Facade System (Paul Raff Studio)

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts (Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated)

Advocate for Architecture

Greg Hayton, Chief Executive Officer, Cambridge Libraries and Galleries

Architectural Firm

Saucier + Perrotte architectes

Green Building

(administered in partnership with the Canada Green Building Council)

Dockside Green Synergy (Busby Perkins+Will Architects )

The Awards of Excellence are bestowed every two years recognizing the greatest achievement in the category identified. The winners are chosen by a series of juries corresponding to the various categories offered. This year’s juries were comprised of:

Advocate for Architecture - Larry Beasley; Larry Wayne Richards, FRAIC; Manon Asselin

Allied Arts Medal - Philip Gabriel, FIALD, PLDA, FIES; Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, LMBCSL, CM, LLD (HON) FCSLA, FASLA; Jerry Grey, Visual Artist

Architectural Firm - Alexander Rankin, FRAIC; Adrienne Clarkson, Hon. FRAIC; Mario Saia, FIRAC; Bruce Kuwabara, FRAIC; David J. Simpson, PP/FRAIC

Green Building - Thomas Auer; Lisa Bate, FRAIC; Jonathan Westeinde

Innovation in Architecture - Guy Gosselin, P.Eng.; Pierre E. Gallant, MIRAC; Barry Sampson, FRAIC

The RAIC Board of Directors appoints an Awards committee who then in turn appoints a jury for each award and anyone except the Awards committee and jury members are eligible to submit for an award.

Recipients will be recognized during the Festival of Architecture and Forum Presidents’ Gala beginning at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20, 2009 at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal.

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