al&d faculty members and students were winners in the 2007 Toronto Urban Design Awards, announced on September 17.

Giannone Associates Architects [Professor Pina Petricone] won an award of excellence in the Elements category for Il Fornello, 491 Church Street.

Kohn Shnier Architects [Professor John Shnier] won an Award of Excellence in the Building in Context - Public category for Claude Watson School for the Arts, and an Honourable Mention in the Building in Context - Private category, Low-scale building sub-category for Laneway House.

Baird Sampson Neuert Architects [Dean George Baird and Professor Barry Sampson] won an Award of Excellence in the Building in Context - Public category for Thomas L. Wells Public School.

Professor Adrian Blackwell was design collaborator on PLANT Architect Inc., Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners Architects' Agora Theatre - Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization, which won an Award of Excellence in the Visions and Master Plans category.

University of Toronto students took both awards in the Student Project category:

Son Van Huynh (MArch'07) won an Award of Excellence for his urban design project Cities and the Dead 6: Ghost Orchards.

Shan Li (MUD'07) won an Award of Excellence for her urban design project Micro-Urbanism: Intervention of Urban Void Area.

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The 2007 jury reviewed 138 submissions and selected a record number to receive awards. Mayor David Miller presented 19 Awards of Excellence and 5 Honourable Mention certificates for projects ranging from individual design elements through private and public buildings in context, large places, neighbourhood visions and student projects.

The winning projects will be on display at various Civic Centres during September and October:

Sept 24-28: City Hall Rotunda
Oct 1-5: North York Civic Centre
Oct 15-19: Scarborough Civic Centre Rotunda
Oct 22 - 26: Etobicoke Civic Centre
Oct 29 - Nov 2: Metro Hall

Held every second year, the Awards acknowledge and promote the contribution that architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists and builders make in enhancing the public realm.

Along with the categories Visions and Master Plans, Large Places or Neighbourhood Designs, Small Open Spaces, Elements, and Student Projects, this years competition included a new Public Buildings in Context category and several new subcategories for Private Buildings in Context.

Fore more information and the jury report:
http://www.toronto.ca/tuda/