{"id":16421,"date":"2023-05-01T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/canadian-design-gets-a-nod-in-architizer-a-awards-shortlisting-voting-open-now\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T18:50:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:50:31","slug":"canadian-design-gets-a-nod-in-architizer-a-awards-shortlisting-voting-open-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/canadian-design-gets-a-nod-in-architizer-a-awards-shortlisting-voting-open-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Design Gets a Nod in Architizer A+ Awards Shortlisting, Voting Open Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the turn of the month, public voting has officially opened for the widest reaching architecture awards ceremony in the world: The Architizer A+ Awards. Running for the 11th straight year, the annual awards are curated by Architizer<\/a>, an online architecture database and search engine based out of New York City. While this year\u2019s nominees are a competitive crop of projects from firms around the world, Canadian designers and Toronto projects have planted themselves firmly in the conversation, and are in contention for several awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The A+ Awards consist of just over 100 categories, covering every type of programming, building size, material use, and nearly anything use you can think of in the architectural realm, including awards for as-yet unbuilt projects along with completed ones. Each category features a shortlist of up to five projects or firms which have been selected by a panel of judges, with the winners ultimately determined by public voting from the shortlisted nominees.<\/p>\n

For architecture enthusiasts, reviewing the nominees and casting votes \u2014 while somewhat daunting of a task with so many categories \u2014 offers the opportunity to view a collection of world-wide projects representing a high standard of cutting edge design and building technologies. It\u2019s also an opportunity to contextualize the state of Canadian architecture, and Toronto architecture particularly, to see how it compares to some of the leading projects around the world. For all the bad that is so often dwelled upon, there is more than enough to be amazed by.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For those looking to support the homegrown talent or local projects competing for honours in this year\u2019s A+ Awards, we have prepared a list of all pertinent firms and projects shortlisted; more images and descriptions of each project can be found at the links in the respective project title. Voting is open until May 12th, and can be accessed at the link here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Stratford Festival\u2019s new Tom Patterson Theatre by Hariri Pontarini Architects, image by Ann Baggley<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sustainable Public Transportation Project:<\/p>\n