In October, jurors Peter Hargraves, Betsy Williamson, Louis Lemay,and photo juror Félix Michaud met to adjudicate the 55th annual Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence. They considered 153 professional entries, 30 student entries, and 31 photo entries to arrive at their selection of winners.

The building?s extensive green roof curves to the ground, blurring the line between building and land. The roof and surrounding landscape host plants and fruits that will be harvested for use in an interactive teaching kitchen.
What is architecture?s role amidst pressing issues such as surging inflation, the growing magnitude of the climate crisis, and an increasing awareness of the need for greater social equity" Many of these issues come together in the calls for reconciliation with Turtle Island?s Indigenous Peoples, a notion reflected in the large number of submissions received that addressed Indigenous clients, or bore Indigenous names. From among these, the jury selected two projects to be recognized with awards. The Mukwa Waakaa?igan Indigenous Centre of Cultural Excellence at Algoma University, by Moriyama & Teshima Architects with Smoke Architecture, adjoins a former residential schoolbuilding. It offers a compelling architectural response to the question of how to handle buildings with a fraught history; there is an ongoing searchfor unmarked burials on the site. The new intervention does not seek to destroy or overcome the existing colonial structure, but instead...