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Summer Sketches
Submissions for the OAA’s annual Summer Sketches are now open. Submit your hand-drawn project sketches to the
OAA Architectural Graduate by July 18 for a chance to be featured on the blOAAg. Showcase your creativity and architectural vision!
Click here to view previous summer sketches.
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Location: Toronto, Ontario
Completed: 2010
Architect: Hilditch Architect Inc.
Nominated by: Jill Andrew, MPP (Toronto—St. Paul's)
Sagatay, meaning “new beginning” in Anishinaabemowin, perfectly...
William Woodsworth, Adrian Blackwell, Elizabeth English, David Fortin, John McMinn, and Robert Jan Van Pelt
When on July 22, 2022, a prominent longhouse burned down on the territory of the Six Nations in south-west Ontario, its destruction occurred in a very different world from the one that saw its...
Location: North Bay, Ontario
Completed: 2022
Architect: Larocque Elder Architects, Architectes Inc.
Nominated by: Hon. Victor Fedeli, MPP (Nipissing)
What does it mean to build a home? At Suswin...
Location: Pikangikum First Nation
Date of Completion: 2016
Architect: Number Ten Architectural Group
Nominated by: Sol Mamakwa, MPP (Kiiwetinoong)
After its original school building was destroyed by...
Ontario Association of Architects
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) is hosting an anonymous Landscape Design Competition aimed at revitalizing the grounds of its Toronto headquarters as an extension of...
Ontario Association of Architects
Location: Ottawa
Date of Completion: 2013
Architect: Cardinal Conley & Associates Inc.
Nominated by: Nathalie des Rosiers, MPP (Ottawa-Vanier)
“We’re very invisible in this city. One...
Location: Oshawa, Ontario
Architect: Montgomery Sisam Architects in joint venture with Architecture Counsel Inc.
Shawenjigewining (pronounced “zha-wen-ji-GEH’-win-ing”) is an Anishinaabe word meaning...
Location: Saskatoon, SK
Architects: Design: KPMB Architects; Architect of Record: Architecture49 Inc.
Date of Completion: 2017
OAA Design Excellence Awards Finalist
The architecture pushes...
Ontario Association of Architects
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Architecture Practices: DIALOG Ontario Inc. in collaboration with Smoke Architecture Inc.
Chosen by a jury of respected design experts, the 20 projects...
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