At a recent Celebration of Excellence gala evening at the Toronto Event Centre, the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) officially recognized the eight project recipients of its 2022 Design Excellence Awards, as chosen by a design jury earlier this spring.

The association then bestowed additional honours on four of those projects.

There were actually only three award categories, but in a surprise twist and one that has never occurred before in the OAA’s history, there was a tie for the Michael V. and Wanda Plachta Award which honours architectural excellence for Ontario projects that cost no more than $8 million.