RAIC announces Governor General's Medals in Architecture winners for 2024
The twelve winners of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)'s 2024 Governor General's Medals in Architecture have been selected in continuation of a tradition that dates back more than six decades.Presented by the RAIC and the Canada Council for the Arts, the biennial program honors the most outstanding completed projects designed by Canadian architects working in the country or abroad. The RAIC says: "The objective of the Governor General’s Medals in Architecture is to recognize and celebrate outstanding design in recently completed built projects of any size, type and geographical location by Canadian architects. The competition continues a tradition initiated by the Massey Medals in 1950, providing an important source of understanding of the nature of Canadian architecture and the regional, cultural, and historic forces expressed in the built environment."This year's contest was judged by RAIC Peer Assessment Committee members Wanda Dalla Costa of the Tawaw Architecture Collective; Michael Green; Ntsika Architects founder Nadia Tromp; Dr. Henry Tsang; and STGM Architecture's Anne Vallières. The winning designs were said to be equally considerate of sustainability approaches and the support and advancement of equity, diversity, and inclusion (DEI).The twelve winning 2024 projects can be viewed below.Read the full post on Bustler
The twelve winners of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)'s 2024 Governor General's Medals in Architecture have been selected in continuation of a tradition that dates back more than six decades.
Presented by the RAIC and the Canada Council for the Arts, the biennial program honors the most outstanding completed projects designed by Canadian architects working in the country or abroad. The RAIC says: "The objective of the Governor General’s Medals in Architecture is to recognize and celebrate outstanding design in recently completed built projects of any size, type and geographical location by Canadian architects. The competition continues a tradition initiated by the Massey Medals in 1950, providing an important source of understanding of the nature of Canadian architecture and the regional, cultural, and historic forces expressed in the built environment."
This year's contest was judged by RAIC Peer Assessment Committee members Wanda Dalla Costa of the Tawaw Architecture Collective; Michael Green; Ntsika Architects founder Nadia Tromp; Dr. Henry Tsang; and STGM Architecture's Anne Vallières. The winning designs were said to be equally considerate of sustainability approaches and the support and advancement of equity, diversity, and inclusion (DEI).
The twelve winning 2024 projects can be viewed below.
