Patkau Architects and Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects, both Vancouver-based, as well as Toronto's Teeple Architects Inc. have each been awarded two of 12 Governor General's Medals for excellence in architecture, it was announced Wednesday in Ottawa by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts.
The 2008 medals are to be presented Oct. 16 at Rideau Hall Governor-General Michaëlle Jean.
Patkau is being honoured for its designs of Gleneagles Community Centre in West Vancouver and, in association with Winnipeg's LM Architectural Group, of an addition to the Winnipeg Centennial Library.
Teeple Architects has been cited for its designs of Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church in east Toronto and, in association with Toronto's Shore Tilbe & Irwin, of the Chemical Sciences Building at Trent University, Peterborough, Ont.
The two winning structures by Hotson Baker Boniface Haden are the Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre in Osoyoos, B.C., and, with fellow Vancouverites Lang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture Inc., ROAR_one, a Vancouver residential complex.
Other projects with architects receiving single medals are: Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto (architectsAlliance, Toronto, and Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart), Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Uttar Pradesh, India (Le Groupe Arcop, Montreal), Project Grand Jeté/National Ballet School, Toronto (Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg and Goldsmith Borgal & Co. Architects, both in Toronto), House at 4a Wychwood Park, Toronto (Ian MacDonald Architect, Toronto), the new Canadian War Museum, Ottawa (Toronto's Moriyama and Teshima Architects and Ottawa's Griffiths Rankin Cook Architects) and the Communication, Culture and Technology Building, U of T (Saucier + Perrotte Architects, Montreal).
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