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