Congratulations to the Surrey Central Operations Centre and Works Yard in British Columbia, for receiving two 2017 NewCity Design Awards: Interiors Award of Excellence, and Industrial Award of Merit. NewCity Design awards recognize City of Surrey leading examples of urban design and creative city building. Our local project partners, Taylor Kurtz Architecture + Design, will be on hand to accept the award at the Nov celebration.
Principal Tyler Sharp keynote speaker at AIA Iowa Convention
Principal Tyler Sharp will give a keynote speech on recent RDHA work at the AIA Iowa Convention in Des Moines, Sept 28-29. The theme of the convention, Cohesion 2017, recognizes the expertise, alternative perspectives, innovative ideas and culture of the architectural profession, and how challenging problems can be solved with projects that are realized when a state of cohesion is achieved by all participants.
Waterdown Library Wins International Architecture Award
The Waterdown Library and Civic Centre has won a prestigious International Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum and the European Centre for Architecture. The awards celebration will take place in Athens, in combination with the opening of an awards exhibition that will travel to multiple destinations around the world.
Williams Parkway Operations Centre wins multiple awards
Aiming to raise the bar for the operations centre typology, Brampton’s Williams Parkway Operations Centre recently received two awards: a 2017 Ontario Association of Architects Design Excellence Award, and a 2016 Brampton Urban Design Institutional Building Award of Merit. The following are the Jury’s comments from the OAA Awards:
“This could heave easily been a very anonymous building, but the architect has turned it into something very positive. The project had a very strong exterior expression –so strong in fact, that when one of the jury members drove by, he pulled over, stopped and checked out the building. It is simple and bold.”
Waterdown Library Featured in The Globe and Mail
The recently completed Waterdown Library and Civic Centre is the subject of a lengthy review by Globe and Mail architecture critic, Alex Bozikovic, who wrote positively of the library noting that it "brings together an elegant metaphor and accessibility with a sense of place – and shows how excellent art can emerge from constraints."
Read the full article here.