Greater Sudbury’s Place des Arts has been selected among eight other Ontario buildings for this year’s Queen’s Park Picks exhibit program.
Every year to mark World Architecture Day, the Ontario Association of Architects teams up with MPPs to highlight outstanding Ontario buildings.
The Queen’s Park Picks program is presented as a special exhibition at Queen’s Park. The year, the exhibit is being held virtually. You can check out the online exhibit at OAA.on.ca/QPP.
“An emerging theme from this year’s QP Picks is community, with numerous buildings playing important roles as spaces where people gather,” the association said in a news release.
“As public health restrictions continue to ease and members of the public find themselves sharing spaces once again, the important role of community-centred buildings has come to the fore.”
In advance of World Architecture Day, the OAA invites MPPs to nominate a favourite building in their riding, which are then evaluated by a jury of architects and narrowed down to nine choices.
This year, Place des Arts in downtown Sudbury was among the buildings chosen. It was nominated by Sudbury MPP Jamie West.
“Bringing together seven Franco-Ontarian arts organizations, Place des Arts is a bold new facility that carefully blends respect and reverence for the city’s past with unabashed optimism for the region’s future,” the OAA said in a news release.
“The project was completed just this year by Moriyama & Teshima Architects in joint venture with Yallowega Belanger Salach Architecture.”
The eight other buildings chosen were:
Abilities Centre in Whitby
Architect: B+H Architects Corp.
Nominated by MPP Lorne Coe
Adàwe Crossing in Ottawa
Architect: Stantec Architecture Ltd.
Nominated by MPP Lucille Collard
Franklin Carmichael Art Centre Building in Toronto (Etobicoke)
Architect: unknown
Nominated by Premier Doug Ford
Holy Protection of the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Church in Guelph
Architect: Evhen Gren
Nominated by MPP Mike Schreiner
Jeremiah McKay Kabayshewekamik in Sioux Lookout
Architect: ft3 Architecture Landscape Interior Design in association with Manasc
Isaac Architects (now Reimagine)
Nominated by MPP Sol Mamakwa
Union Station in Toronto
Architects: Ross and MacDonald, Hugh Jones (Assistant Chief Architect, Canadian Pacific Railway) and John M. Lyle Architect
Architects of Renovation (2022): NORR Architects & Engineers Limited, EVOQ Architecture Inc., Zeidler Architecture, PARTISANS (interior), IBI Group (second platform)
Nominated by MPP Chris Glover
Victoria County Gaol in Lindsay
Architect: Cumberland and Storm
Nominated by MPP Laurie Scott
Victoria Hall (Brockville City Hall) in Brockville
Architect: Henry H. Horsey
Architect of Renovation: O. E. Liston
Nominated by MPP Steve Clark
— Sudbury.com
