Pug Awards
Koerner Hall, part of the 2010s winning Telus Centre project
The Pug Awards are a Toronto architecture award that rates buildings based on popular votes. Each spring the Pug Awards website lists all buildings completed the previous year in Toronto that have more than 50,000 feet of floor space. As of 2009, buildings outside the Old City of Toronto (including North York and Etobicoke) are eligible for awards.[1] The awards were created in 2004 by Gary Berman and Anna Simone . They were originally named the "Fugly Awards" and highlighted the ugliest buildings completed, but the name was then softened to the Puglies, and finally to the Pugs, with a Pug dog as the mascot. In 2008 the awards introduced the "Pug Cup," which will be carved each year with the winning building and displayed at City Hall.
2011 awards
- Best residential: Seventy5 Portland
- Best commercial/institutional: Bell Lightbox
2010 awards
- Best residential: 60 Richmond East Housing Co-Operative
- Best commercial/institutional: Telus Centre at The Royal Conservatory of Music
- Worst residential: Grande Triomphe – Phase II
- Worst commercial/institutional: Shops at Don Mills
2009 awards
- Best residential: One Saint Thomas - Robert A.M. Stern
- Best commercial/institutional: Art Gallery of Ontario - Frank Gehry
- Worst building: Mount Sinai Hospital Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Centre
2008 awards
- Best residential: Argyle Authentic Lofts
- Best commercial/institutional: Hazelton Hotel
- Worst building: 76 Shuter
2007 awards
- Best residential: One King West
- Best commercial/institutional: Gardiner Museum
- Worst building: Be Bloor Condominium
2006 awards
- Best residential: 18 Yorkville
- Best commercial/institutional: National Ballet School of Canada
- Worst building: Glenlake
2005 awards
- Best residential: Waterclub I
- Best commercial/institutional: Toronto Police Service's 51 Division
- Worst building: Wellington Square
See also
External links
References
- ↑ Roberts, Rob (30 April 2009). "Architecture of the inner suburbs to get Pug Awards scrutiny this year". The National Post (Toronto). Retrieved April 30, 2009.
- Goldberg, Brianna."Low-rise lofts triumph at annual Pug Awards." National Post. Don Mills, Ont.: Jun 5, 2008. pg. A.15
- Ouellette, Robert. "How the Pug Awards saved Toronto." National Post. Don Mills, Ont.: May 2, 2008. pg. A.10
- Hume, Christopher. "So T.O. who's the Pugliest of them all?" Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Jun 7, 2006. pg. B.04
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