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2024 Queen's Park Picks
The OAA and MPPs Celebrate Ontario Architecture with Queen's Park Picks 
The OAA reveals the 2024 selections for its annual Queen’s Park Picks (QP Picks) program—a collaboration with Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) across the province who share a passion for our built environment in all its many forms.


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2016/AUG/28

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The dialogue between building and nature - structure and site - is among the most fundamental considerations in the design of a cottage. Whether it is through materiality, siting, scale, or views...

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2016/AUG/16

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Georgian Bay’s eastern shoreline – characterized by distinctive granite outcrops, windswept eastern white pines, and the notorious Thirty Thousands Islands archipelago --- has long been a...

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2020/JUL/22

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Michael Pettes

Sketches for a renovation of a cottage on 6 Mile Lake in the Muskoka region of Ontario. Interesting drawing of an old Muskoka cottage being raised above a modern glass box. All of my schematic design...

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2019/AUG/22

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Photo Credit : David Gillett, Lake Rosseau, Muskoka, Canada, Pen Paper, 2017Architectural Credit : David Gillett...

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2016/JUN/30

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Few building types are as intrinsically knit into Ontario's cultural identity as the cottage, the wilderness retreat of thousands of Ontarians who have made these buildings part of their yearly summer...

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2016/JUL/19

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Among Ontario’s millions of acres of forests and tens of thousands of lakes, no expanse has become more closely associated to cottages than Ontario’s iconic Muskoka region. Nestled between...

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2016/JUL/31

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Straddling the Canada-US border where the Saint Lawrence River emerges from Lake Ontario, the Thousands Islands is an ecologically and historically significant archipelago consisting of 1,864 islands...

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2016/MAR/09

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Location: Go Home Bay, Georgian Bay, ONArchitects: Ian MacDonald Architect Inc.Date of completion: 2015OAA Awards 2016 Design Excellence WinnerSet within a rocky landscape of wind-shaped white pines...

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2022/MAR/17

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Location: La Peche, Quebec Architect: Kariouk Architects Most North American cottages look like they’re at one with the landscape, but they’re often just as unsustainable as other homes. While...


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