Ryerson University President Sheldon Levy today announced the selection of Zeidler Partnership Architects of Toronto in association with Snøhetta of Oslo, Norway and New York City as the co-architects for Ryerson’s new Student Learning Center (SLC). “We are very pleased…

Wandering Ecologies, Weiss/Manfredi‘s design proposal for Toronto’s Lower Don Lands, has won the American Architecture Award. The design renaturalizes the Lower Don River and establishes a new identity for Toronto, where recreational, cultural, and residential activities are free to wander and overlap, creating a…

“What can a new school of architecture be?” This question was the core of the international ideas competition “Laurentian Architecture” which just announced its winning entries. Organized by the Steering Committee for the Northern Ontario School of Architecture (NOSOA), in…

The winners of the 2009 Toronto Urban Design Awards, the 6th since amalgamation, were recently announced. The award program celebrates the best urban design in Toronto. Unlike other design awards programs that highlight individual projects, the Urban Design Awards honor the improvements to urban life made by designers who are…

Voting for the fifth annual Pug Awards, the people’s choice awards for architecture in Toronto, begins today. Toronto is one of the fastest-growing cities in North America. Buildings help define the streetscape in a city and the quality of new buildings in Toronto ranges from world-class architectural…

The Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO) announced the winners of its 24th annual ARIDO Awards of Excellence at a gala dinner at the Direct Energy Centre. Among the winners were six Awards of Excellence and 17 Awards of Merit. This prestigious awards program honours innovation, creativity and…