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2024 Design Excellence Finalists
The OAA is thrlled to highlight the 20 Finalists for the 2024 Design Excellence Awards. This year's collection includes projects in Ontario and beyond, ranging from sustainably designed community centres and learning facilities to residences and performing arts venues.


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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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2021/SEP/22

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Location: Delta Date of Completion: 1811 Architect: N/A Nominated by: Hon. Steve Clark, MPP (Leeds–Grenville–Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes) “Unquestionably the best building of the kind in Upper...

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2020/MAR/13

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Ontario Association of Architects

Location: Singhampton, Ont. Architect: Superkül Inc. OAA Design Excellence Awards Winner Energy Efficiency and Carbon Stability Architects must play a role in stabilizing the climate change...

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2016/AUG/16

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21840

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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2016/MAR/15

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Location: Beamsville, ONArchitects: Sweeny Sterling Finlayson &Co. Architects Inc. (now Sweeny &Co. Architects Inc.) Partners in Charge: Dermot Sweeny and Mary Jane FinlaysonDate of...

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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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2016/FEB/03

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“We are not committed to any particular style of buildings, but only to a certain spirit…. It is a spirit of appropriateness and beauty, which gives the kind of aesthetic stimulation and...

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2016/JAN/30

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Canada has a love for libraries. In Toronto alone, more people visit the Toronto public library system every year than the top ten most popular attractions combined – this includes Air Canada...

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2023/OCT/03

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OAA

Location: Strathroy, Ontario Date of Completion: 1889-1901 Architect: Thomas Fuller Designers of Renovations/Additions: In2Space (interior designer) Nominated by: Monte McNaughton (former MPP for...


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Check out our 2024 Design Excellence Finalists! This year's collection features a diverse range of building types.

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