The Globe and Mail Published April 6, 2021
Canadian Housing Design Council Awards
Awards season, with all of its requisite pomp and circumstance – and again this year with auditoriums strangely silent – has come and gone. And as much as I stood and cheered for Messrs. Levy and Ms. O’Hara (I have been an SCTV fan since I was a single-digit lad), the general rethink on how awards are distributed has me thinking about my wheelhouse.
I have a little experience in this area. On two separate occasions I served as juror for the Ontario Association of Architects (the OAA is the regulatory body that licenses architects in the province), I have served for the City of Toronto’s William Greer Built Heritage Award, a few years ago I had oodles of fun judging “Canstruction” – where architectural firms build things using cans of food that are then donated to food banks – and, wearing my other professional hat, have judged radio commercials more than once.