Acton Ostry Architects

12/02/2025

12/02/2025

Vancouver Aquatic Centre has won a 2025 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence in Architecture !

The Winners of the 2025 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence have been announced! https://www.canadianarchitect.com/the-winners-2025-ca-awards/

Congratulations to the winners, individually posted here: https://www.canadianarchitect.com/category/award/2025-winners/

Read our jury comments here: https://www.canadianarchitect.com/contextual-innovation-jury-comments-on-the-2025-canadian-architect-awards-of-excellence/

See Canadian Architect’s December 2025 issue featuring the Canadian Architect 2025 Awards of Excellence winners of our annual awards for future projects: https://www.canadianarchitect.com/december-2025/.

On behalf of the magazine and the jurors, we wish to extend thanks to all of our readers who participated in this year’s awards program, and congratulations to all of this year’s winners!

The 2025 Winners:

MJMA Architecture & Design & Acton Ostry Architects
Revery Architecture
SPECTACLE Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism
RDH Architects
Diamond Schmitt, Selldorf Architects and Two Row Architect
GH3 and Stantec
Giannone Petricone Architects
Sid Lee Architecture
ChevalierMorales and Brian Elsden Burrows, Architecte - Le Groupe Architex
GGA-Architecture and KPMB Architects
GH3 and Lemay
KANVA Architecture (two awards)
Bishop McDowell
Emilie Rooke
Thy Nguyen
Janson Chan
Xiaoyu Shi
Lisa Stinner-Kun
James Brittain
Rémi Carriro
Camila Lima
Caralyn Jeffs

A very special thanks to the 2025 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence Jurors: Alison Brooks (Alison Brooks Architects), Sonia Gagné (provencher_roy ), Kelly Buffey (Akb Architects), Salina Kassam

Read the editorial: An All-Women Jury https://www.canadianarchitect.com/editorial-an-all-woman-jury/

12/02/2025

Limberlost Place by Moriyama Teshima and Acton Ostry raises the bar for mass timber in Toronto: A 10-story net-zero academic building with a 30% reduction in embodied carbon and a didactic, all-wood structure that teaches through its materials.
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11/25/2025

11/25/2025

As architects, understanding the full potential of glass can take your projects to the next level—both in functionality and aesthetics. Our Lunch and Learn sessions offer a unique opportunity to deepen your knowledge of glass, explore its capabilities, and discover how the right specifications can bring your design concepts to life.
Recently, we had the privilege of hosting a session at Acton Ostry Architects led by our Senior Architectural Design Manager and Business Development expert, Otto Ward. The team at Acton Ostry was incredibly engaged, asking thoughtful questions that sparked valuable discussions. It was a great reminder of how powerful these sessions can be for aligning your team with the latest glass insights!
With topics like Glass 101, Glass 102, and Quality Standards, our Lunch and Learns provides practical, actionable knowledge that you can apply directly to your projects—helping you create not only more feasible designs but also ones that are visually striking. And, of course, we always dedicate time for Q&A, where you can get expert advice tailored to your unique challenges.
Don’t miss out on an opportunity to enhance your team’s expertise and bring your designs to new heights. Reach out to schedule your personalized Lunch and Learn session at [email protected]

11/25/2025

11/25/2025

“The project reinterprets, celebrates and reflects various aspects of the Mount Pleasant context, street life, materiality and colour through a bricolage of jumbled effects inspired by the diverse range of buildings from different periods and styles that are located throughout the neighbourhood.” - Acton Ostry Architects Inc

We couldn’t agree more. The Independent stands as a representation of past and future. Designed into five distinct forms, each with a separate character, the building celebrates the mood and spirit of the surrounding neighbourhood and pays homage to those who made it what it is today.

11/25/2025

11/25/2025

11/25/2025

George Brown College’s 10-storey waterfront academic building is a new kind of public building: a mass timber tower prioritizing renewable materials, operable windows, and plenty of daylight and fresh air.

11/25/2025