Vancouver honours best in local architecture and design
Thirteen projects representing the finest in design and architecture were honoured tonight at the 2016 Vancouver Urban Design Awards.
“The creative and innovative projects honoured by this year’s Urban Design Awards all enhance Vancouver’s natural beauty,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson:
Great architecture and the best interior designers of our buildings and public spaces are integral to creating a livable city that’s admired locally and around the world. —Gregor Robertson
The Urban Design Awards recognize and celebrate excellence in architecture and urban design in Vancouver. Winners were chosen in nine categories, along with special jury awards.
The 2016 Vancouver Urban Design Award recipients are:
- Small-Scale Residential Building
Project: 430 House
Firm: D’Arcy Jones
- Medium-Scale Residential Building
Project: 133 East 8th Avenue
Firm: GBL Architects
Developer: MYIE Group
Landscape Architect: Senga Landscape Architecture
- Large-Scale Residential Building
Project: Kwayatsut
Firm: NSDA Architects
Landscape Architect: Perry + Associates
- Commercial Buildings that Office for Rent at Asoke Intersection
Project: 564 Beatty Street
Firm: IBI Group Architects
Developer: Reliance Properties Ltd.
Team: Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects Inc, Kane Consulting, Donald Luxton & Associates, John Bryson & Partners, ITC Construction Group
- Government and Institutional Building
Project: York Theatre
Firm: Henriquez Partners Architects
Developer: Wall Financial Corporation
- Innovation
Project: The Vanglo House
Firm: Lang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture
Developer: Vanglo Sustainable Construction Group Ltd.
Team: PJB Engineering Ltd., TLZ Design Consultants
- Outstanding Sustainable Design
Project: 250 Powell
Firm: Henriquez Partners Architects
Developer: BC Housing Corporation
- Landscape, Public Space and Infrastructure
Project: Metamorphous – Corten Seawall Sculpture and Foreshore Enhancement
Firm: Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture
Developer: Barrie Sali & Roxanne Diaz
Team: Balanced Environmental, Fossil Project Services, Drabek Technologies, GeoPacific Consultants Ltd.
- Urban Elements (two awarded)
Element: Bendy Straw Trellis at Mid Main Park
Firm: Hapa Collaborative
Team: Equilibrium Consulting Inc., Watanabe Engineering, Aplin Martin Consultants Ltd.
- Element: TELUS Garden Office Pavilion
Firm: Henriquez Partners Architects
Developer: Westbank Projects Corp.
Landscape Architect: Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg
Special Jury Awards
- Contextual Response in Urban Design
Project: MNP Tower
Firm: Kohn Pederson Fox Associates and Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership
Developer: Oxford Properties Group
Landscape Architect: Durante Kreuk Ltd.
- Active Façade
Project: 999 Seymour
Firm: Acton Ostry Architects
Developer: Townline Holdings
Landscape Architect: Durante Kreuk Ltd.
- Partnership of Two Cultures
Project: Skwachàys Healing Lodge
Firm: Joe Y. Wai Architect
Developer: Vancouver Native Housing Society
Team: JM Engineering, Cobalt Engineering, Donald Luxton and Associates, Jonathan Losee Ltd.
For more details on the winning projects, visit vancouver.ca/design-awards.
Winners were selected by an independent jury, whose members were:
- Jane Durante, founding member of Durante Kreuk Ltd.
- Roger Hughes, architect, founding partner of HCMA Architecture + Design
- Scott Romses, architect, principal of Romses Architects
- Bill Pechet, principal owner and director of Pechet Studio.
The awards, which are presented every other year, promote urban design awareness, its value in place-making and the positive contribution public-realm design makes to the lives of people. Honourees receive a plaque and recognition at the ceremony and on the City’s website. The first Vancouver Urban Design Awards were presented in 2014.
