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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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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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2022/AUG/02

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Sam A. Leika-Shukor

Figure 9 (above) - A Proposal of Housing Project with Retail and Offices - Flower is optional! Art work - Ink pen on paper with Copic markers. I’ve been very interested lately in designing pleasant...

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2022/JUL/28

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Sam A. Leika-Shukor

How I think sketching is an interative and innovative tool rather than a mechanical reflection of a ready-made vision. Figure 1 (above) - Face-lift to an Existing Mall. Ink on tracing paper. I chose...

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2022/JUL/27

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Darius Gumushdjian

Undertaking complexity and detail by sketching is challenging yet perhaps we need to approach it rather simply. Sketching sometimes has to come from a place where our hand moves, sometimes habitually...

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2022/JUL/22

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Farzam Mohajer

I took up watercolour this past year and to practice I thought to draw a few buildings. I prefer drawings/photos of buildings being inhabited but I didn’t want to faff around drawing tiny people in...

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2022/JUL/20

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Nolan Bentley

Our seats positioned us on axis with the first base line and the end of the dome. Blue sky, blue seat and green turf made for a simple palette...

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2022/JUL/18

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Zoey Chao

While people's lives have slowly come back to normal as before 2020, international traveling still is considered risky and such a hustle to enjoy. I want to use this unique time in history as an...

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2022/JUL/13

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Douglas Lawrence

There is nothing that quite compares to the pleasure and intensity of sketching Plein Air, losing track of time and getting totally lost in the experience. Only later does the dehydration, sunburn...

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2022/JUL/13

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Sahil M. Samnani

"These sketches are a compilation of work related to custom home projects which I was part of. I completed them...


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