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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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2021/AUG/05

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Douglas S. Lawrence

A sketch of Ostia Antica outside of Rome on a very cold and wet January day several years ago. (above) A view of the Toronto Malting Silos on the waterfront. The landscape of pipes and metal stairs on...

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2022/AUG/03

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Lowell Lo

Scadding Court Community Centre at Chinatown (above). I connected with several recent Art Collage graduates during the pandemic. We were eager to meet to 'en plein air' sketch. I brought my...

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2021/AUG/26

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Ted Wilson

Village on Lago Maggiore, near our family summer "campo" not far from our hometown of Vergiate. It’s northwest of Milan and where our family ran a lumber mill for timber from the Black Forest...

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2021/AUG/11

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Ambrosio A. Frias, Jr.

In response to the call to submit sketches, please allow me to present a quick sketch I did for a young client. The project is a conceptual design of a two-storey doctor's clinic along Finch Ave. in...

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2021/SEP/10

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Darius Gumushdjian

It’s difficult to say if any other method of representation is as intuitive as the one between you and yourself. Sketching allows for the delineation of thought, feeling, and impulse of the...

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2021/SEP/10

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Darius Gumushdjian

It’s always difficult for me to hear someone say that their sketches aren’t good, especially when they are in the field of architecture/design, thus preventing themselves from drawing by hand. This...

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2021/AUG/11

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Lawrence Kavanagh

CDS Junior School Street View   I am sharing some design sketches produced to assist with a fundraising campaign for a new Junior School in King City. The school board specifically requested...

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2021/AUG/10

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Maged Basilious

I completed this painting of Langdon Hall (Cambridge, Ont.) last summer. This magnificent summer home was built in 1898 employing the Federal Revival style. Langdon Hall was the venue for my son's...

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2021/AUG/26

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Gamal Mohammed

The Kuwait Community Centre The Kuwait Community Centre is a proposed three-storey institutional building developed by the Jamaat Ul-Islamiah of Ontario on the northwest corner of Fairbank Avenue and...


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