Governor General medal recipients showcase all facets of architecture

OTTAWA — Gov. Gen. Mary Simon presented Canada’s top architecture and landscape architecture honours at a ceremony held Jan. 24 at Rideau Hall.

The Governor General’s Medals in Architecture and Landscape Architecture recognize impressive projects and individuals from across the country.

The projects honoured in the architecture category are:

Reception Pavilion of the Quebec National Assembly (Quebec City) – GLCRM Architectes
Cherry Street Stormwater Facility – gh3* (Toronto) – R.V. Anderson Associates Limited
Forest Pavilion (Winnipeg) – Public City Architecture Inc.
The Idea Exchange Old Post Office (Cambridge, Ont.) – RDH Architects (RDHA)
The Brearley School (New York City) – KPMB Architects
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building & Louis A. Simpson International Building, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) – KPMB Architects
Tom Patterson Theatre (Stratford, Ont.) – Hariri Pontarini Architects
Village at the End of the World (Nova Scotia) – MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Ltd.
Point William Cottage (Muskoka, Ont.) – Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
60_80 Atlantic Avenue (Toronto) – BDP Quadrangle
Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (Vancouver) – Formline Architecture
Les Rochers (Bassin, Que.) – la Shed Architecture

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OLIVER BLOUIN — The Reception Pavilion of the Quebec National Assembly in Quebec City won Provencher_Roy and GLCRM Architectes a 2022 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture for their addition to the province’s legislative assembly.

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ED BURTYNSKY — Point William Cottage located in Muskoka, Ont. won a 2022 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture for Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.

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LINDSAY REID — The Forest Pavilion is a warming shelter, gathering area and public washroom in Winnipeg designed by Public City Architecture Inc. to FEMA guidelines for floodable structures and it recently won a 2022 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture.

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ADRIAN OZIMEK — The Cherry Street Stormwater Facility in Toronto was designed by gh3+ and R.V. Associates Limited and was awarded a 2022 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture.

The 2022 Governor General’s Medal in Landscape Architecture was awarded to Ronald Fr. Williams, who is a professor and director at the School of Landscape Architecture at the Universite de Montreal.

He graduated from McGill University in 1964 with a degree in architecture and then Sorbonne in 1965 with a Diplôme de civilisation française. Williams also co-founded the Montreal landscape and urban architecture firm WAA (Williams, Asselin, Ackaoui and associates) along with partners Vincent Asselin, Malaka Ackaoui, and Sachi Williams and is a fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) and of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

The Governor General’s Medals in Architecture and Landscape Architecture medals are presented in partnership with the RAIC, CSLA and the Canada Council for the Arts.