Canadian Institute of Planners honours Wolfville with a national Award of Excellence
The Town of Wolfville’s national Planning Award of Excellence
The Town of Wolfville, together with Fathom Studio, FoTenn, Hatch Engineering and CBCL received the award for Planning Excellence in the category of Rural/Small Town Planning at 2020’s Canadian Institute of Planners’ Annual Awards for Planning Excellence. The jury comments, “The project, grounded in council’s aim and commitment for its residents, addressed climate change mitigation and adaptation. The project educated people on planning concepts and set a framework to support the achievement of feasible outcomes.”
Atlantic Planners Institute honours Argyle & Grafton Streetscapes
API Award for Argyle & Grafton Streetscapes
The Atlantic Planners Institute (API) awarded its Annual Planning Excellence Awards at the Annual Conference in Moncton, New Brunswick in October of 2018. These awards honour the best in professional planning work undertaken by members in communities and regions across Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
Edmonton recognized for the River Crossing Heritage Interpretive Plan
Edmonton honoured for the River Crossing Heritage Interpretive Plan
The City of Edmonton together partners were honoured with an award of merit from the Alberta Professional Planners Institute (APPI) for work on the River Crossing Heritage Interpretive Plan for the City of Edmonton. Edmonton’s City Planning Branch, together with Form:Media and Aaron Aubin Consulting Inc. created the plan through the use of research, public engagement and stories of the area to create a plan that both celebrates the rich history of the area and welcomes the future.
Two Applied Arts 2018 Community Design Awards
Two very different projects
The Applied Arts Community Design Awards recognized for two very different projects—a rebrand for a provincial regulatory body, and a unique urban memorial to a devastating explosion. The 2018 Applied Arts Community Design Awards recognize design aimed at specific urban or provincial markets, across Canada. The Community Design awards assess like-sized entrants and recognize those designers who work with smaller, local clients, a small business or projects with a shoestring budget.
SEGD’s Global Design Awards—Fort Needham Memorial Park
Fort Needham Memorial Park—Global Design Award
Each year the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) honours works in seven categories that show exceptional use of graphic design to communicate effectively, tell a story and create a strong sense of place. For the second year in a row, the EGD work for Fort Needham Memorial Park is amongst the finalists.
SEGD’s Global Design Awards—graduate thesis
Design Within Reach thesis—finalist in the student category
For the second year in a row, John’s graduate thesis Design Within Reach: Interpreting Guidelines for People with Disabilities in the Museum Environment was a finalist in the student category. He believes as an institution for public use, museums should factor all audiences of all abilities when designing a museum, creating public spaces suitable for visitation by the blind and people with low vision, the deaf and hard of hearing, and people with mobility issues. A public space that considers all users allows for a better visitor experience for all.
2018 Urban Design Awards—Fort Needham Memorial Park
Fort Needham Memorial Park—Excellence in Civic Design
After a hiatus of close to ten years, the 2018 Halifax Urban Design Awards were held on Friday, May 4, 2018, to celebrate achievements in Urban design. The Jury of Anne McIlroy (Principal at Brook McIlroy, Toronto), Maki Kawaguchi (Associate at Gehl, New York), Antonio and Gomez-Palacio (Principal at Dialog, Toronto) an Award of Excellence in Civic Design for Fort Needham Memorial Park.
Canadian Institute of Planners Award—Trillium Park
Trillium Park—Excellence in Landscape Architecture
The reenvisioned Trillium Park and William G. Davis Trail transform a derelict 7.5-acre parking lot to a new public garden at Ontario Place. Upper woodlot walking trails wind through a native planted wilderness-inspired terrain and a First Nations inspired gateway leads to the recreated water’s edge.
AZ Awards—Batoche National Historic Site
Batoche National Historic Site of Canada
On June 23, 2017, AZURE announced the winners of the 2017 AZ Awards at a gala attended by local and international stars from the worlds of architecture and design. A staggering 813 submissions from 41 countries, were narrowed to a shortlist of 70 finalists: Batoche included. 2017 marked the inaugural year for a new Experiential Graphic Design category of the 7th annual AZ Awards. Finalists met at the AZ Awards Gala in Toronto on Friday, June 23, at Toronto's Evergreen Brick Works.