2025 AIA Canada Design Award Winners
2025 Design Award Winners
Congratulations to this year’s recipients. The AIA Canada Society proudly announced the 2025 Design Award Winners at the Annual General Meeting on November 26, 2025, celebrating the projects and practitioners who continue to elevate architectural excellence across Canada.
This year’s jury brought together distinguished leaders in the field, each offering a unique lens on innovation, sustainability, community impact, and design integrity. Their collective insight ensured that the 2025 Design Awards highlight exemplary work that advances the built environment with purpose, creativity, and care.
2025 Jury
Avery Guthrie
Architect and Principal, Teeple Architects
Avery is an Architect and Principal at Teeple Architects. Since joining the firm in 2011, she has played leadership roles on a range of high-profile projects, with a particular focus on the public sector. Holding master’s degrees in both history and architecture, Avery values thorough design research, respectful collaboration, and a strong conceptual and practical foundation for design. Her expertise spans from master planning and user engagement to detailed building execution. Avery has been based in Vancouver since 2017, serving as the firm’s practice leader for western Canada.
Ian Chodikoff
Architect and Founder, Chodikoff & Ideas
Ian Chodikoff is an architect and founder of Chodikoff & Ideas, which offers clients in the architecture, design, and real estate industries implementable solutions through value-added research, communications, content curation and business development campaigns with a focus on leadership acumen. Previously, Ian expanded the communications and business development infrastructure for SvN Architects + Planners, conference programming IIDEX and the Interior Design Show, and the buildNEXT accelerator program at Foresight Canada, a cleantech organization supporting the transition toward a green economy. He served as the Executive Director of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and, for nearly a decade, was the editor of Canadian Architect magazine. Ian is an architect with over 25 years of experience, a Fellow of the RAIC. He received his architectural training at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and the University of British Columbia.
Vivian Manasc, AOE, LLD (Hon), Architect, AAA, MBA, PP/FRAIC, LEED AP BD+C
Senior Principal, Reimagine Architects
With degrees in Architecture from McGill and an MBA from the U of A, she leads Reimagine, one of the most innovative Western Canadian Architectural practices. With a team of almost 100 people in studios in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and Bucharest, Romania, Reimagine Architects leads the conversation about integrated sustainable design.
For over three decades, Vivian has co-created with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities, who taught her to explore sustainable design, ideas shared in her second book, Old Stories New Ways, Architecture informed by Indigenous Ways of Knowing. She has led the design of many notable First Nations projects including Educational, Cultural and Tourism facilities, Health and Healing Centres and community gathering spaces.
Reimagining existing buildings has been a focus of Vivian’s leadership in sustainable design. As an early champion of sustainable buildings, and a co- founder of the Canadian Green Building Council, she has many LEED and reimagined existing buildings to her credit. Vivian has been a strategic leader in the global conversation about the many benefits, cultural, environmental and economic, of repurposing and reimagining rather that demolishing existing buildings. Vivian served on the National Capital Commission Advisory Committee on Design and Real Property (ACDRP) and currently serves on the Board of the National Trust for Canada. She is a Past President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and a longstanding advocate for architectural excellence in Canada.
The Winners Are:
EXCELLENCE – ARCHITECTURE
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority Headquarters
Toronto, ON
Bucholz McEvoy Architects
ZAS Architects
Image Credit: Michael Moran
Selected to AIA International Design Awards ’26
MERIT – ARCHITECTURE
Buffalo Crossing Paul Albrechtsen Visitor Centre
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Stantec Architecture Ltd.
Image Credit: James Brittain
MERIT – ARCHITECTURE
Union Station Revitalization
Toronto, ON
NORR Architects & Engineers Ltd.
EVOQ Architecture
Image Credit: doublespace photography
CITATION – ARCHITECTURE
SickKids Patient Support Centre
Toronto, ON
B+H
Image Credit: Tom Arban Photography
CITATION – ARCHITECTURE
BMO Centre Expansion
Calgary, AB
Stantec Architecture Ltd
S2 Architecture
Populous
Image Credit: Tom Harris Photography
CITATION – COMMUNITY ENGAGED
Nuxalk Asmayuusta Childcare
Bella Coola, BC
Mackin Architects Ltd.
Image Credit: Andrew Latreille
MERIT – RESIDENTIAL
Sagamore North Cottage
Muskoka, ON
Akb
Image Credit: Shai Gil
HONOURABLE MENTION – RESIDENTIAL
Bessborough Residence
Toronto, ON
AAmp Studio
Image Credit: Doublespace
MERIT – UNBUILT
Hudson’s Bay Development
Vancouver, BC
Perkins&Will
Image Credit: Perkins&Will
MERIT – URBAN DESIGN
Réseau Express Métropolitain
Montréal, Québec
Lemay
Bisson Fortin
Perkins&Will
Image Credit: Adrien Williams
CITATION – URBAN DESIGN
The Well
Toronto, ON
Hariri Pontarini Architects
Adamson Associates Architects | BDP
CCxA | Architects-Alliance | Wallman Architects
Image Credit: Norm Li
2025 Design Award Winners
Congratulations to this year’s recipients. The AIA Canada Society proudly announced the 2025 Design Award Winners at the Annual General Meeting on November 26, 2025, celebrating the projects and practitioners who continue to elevate architectural excellence across Canada.
This year’s jury brought together distinguished leaders in the field, each offering a unique lens on innovation, sustainability, community impact, and design integrity. Their collective insight ensured that the 2025 Design Awards highlight exemplary work that advances the built environment with purpose, creativity, and care.
2025 Jury
Avery Guthrie
Architect and Principal, Teeple Architects
Avery is an Architect and Principal at Teeple Architects. Since joining the firm in 2011, she has played leadership roles on a range of high-profile projects, with a particular focus on the public sector. Holding master’s degrees in both history and architecture, Avery values thorough design research, respectful collaboration, and a strong conceptual and practical foundation for design. Her expertise spans from master planning and user engagement to detailed building execution. Avery has been based in Vancouver since 2017, serving as the firm’s practice leader for western Canada.
Ian Chodikoff
Architect and Founder, Chodikoff & Ideas
Ian Chodikoff is an architect and founder of Chodikoff & Ideas, which offers clients in the architecture, design, and real estate industries implementable solutions through value-added research, communications, content curation and business development campaigns with a focus on leadership acumen. Previously, Ian expanded the communications and business development infrastructure for SvN Architects + Planners, conference programming IIDEX and the Interior Design Show, and the buildNEXT accelerator program at Foresight Canada, a cleantech organization supporting the transition toward a green economy. He served as the Executive Director of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and, for nearly a decade, was the editor of Canadian Architect magazine. Ian is an architect with over 25 years of experience, a Fellow of the RAIC. He received his architectural training at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and the University of British Columbia.
Vivian Manasc, AOE, LLD (Hon), Architect, AAA, MBA, PP/FRAIC, LEED AP BD+C
Senior Principal, Reimagine Architects
With degrees in Architecture from McGill and an MBA from the U of A, she leads Reimagine, one of the most innovative Western Canadian Architectural practices. With a team of almost 100 people in studios in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and Bucharest, Romania, Reimagine Architects leads the conversation about integrated sustainable design.
For over three decades, Vivian has co-created with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities, who taught her to explore sustainable design, ideas shared in her second book, Old Stories New Ways, Architecture informed by Indigenous Ways of Knowing. She has led the design of many notable First Nations projects including Educational, Cultural and Tourism facilities, Health and Healing Centres and community gathering spaces.
Reimagining existing buildings has been a focus of Vivian’s leadership in sustainable design. As an early champion of sustainable buildings, and a co- founder of the Canadian Green Building Council, she has many LEED and reimagined existing buildings to her credit. Vivian has been a strategic leader in the global conversation about the many benefits, cultural, environmental and economic, of repurposing and reimagining rather that demolishing existing buildings. Vivian served on the National Capital Commission Advisory Committee on Design and Real Property (ACDRP) and currently serves on the Board of the National Trust for Canada. She is a Past President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and a longstanding advocate for architectural excellence in Canada.
The Winners Are:
EXCELLENCE – ARCHITECTURE
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority Headquarters
Toronto, ON
Bucholz McEvoy Architects
ZAS Architects
Image Credit: Michael Moran
Selected to AIA International Design Awards ’26
MERIT – ARCHITECTURE
Buffalo Crossing Paul Albrechtsen Visitor Centre
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Stantec Architecture Ltd.
Image Credit: James Brittain
MERIT – ARCHITECTURE
Union Station Revitalization
Toronto, ON
NORR Architects & Engineers Ltd.
EVOQ Architecture
Image Credit: doublespace photography
CITATION – ARCHITECTURE
SickKids Patient Support Centre
Toronto, ON
B+H
Image Credit: Tom Arban Photography
CITATION – ARCHITECTURE
BMO Centre Expansion
Calgary, AB
Stantec Architecture Ltd
S2 Architecture
Populous
Image Credit: Tom Harris Photography
CITATION – COMMUNITY ENGAGED
Nuxalk Asmayuusta Childcare
Bella Coola, BC
Mackin Architects Ltd.
Image Credit: Andrew Latreille
MERIT – RESIDENTIAL
Sagamore North Cottage
Muskoka, ON
Akb
Image Credit: Shai Gil
HONOURABLE MENTION – RESIDENTIAL
Bessborough Residence
Toronto, ON
AAmp Studio
Image Credit: Doublespace
MERIT – UNBUILT
Hudson’s Bay Development
Vancouver, BC
Perkins&Will
Image Credit: Perkins&Will
MERIT – URBAN DESIGN
Réseau Express Métropolitain
Montréal, Québec
Lemay
Bisson Fortin
Perkins&Will
Image Credit: Adrien Williams
CITATION – URBAN DESIGN
The Well
Toronto, ON
Hariri Pontarini Architects
Adamson Associates Architects | BDP
CCxA | Architects-Alliance | Wallman Architects
Image Credit: Norm Li
