OBJECTIVE

The objective of the Lieutenant Governor Award of Excellence in Architecture is to recognize and celebrate outstanding architectural design in recently completed projects by New Brunswick Architects.

This award will provide:

● Recognition of outstanding
architectural design by New Brunswick   Architects.

● An opportunity to celebrate the achievements of New Brunswick Architects.

● An opportunity to increase public understanding of the context and fabric of New Brunswick architecture and to increase public understanding of how architecture reflects the society that builds it.
● An opportunity to highlight the social, cultural, historical and economic forces expressed in New Brunswick’s built environment.

● An opportunity to foster the value of architecture in our daily lives.

eligibility

Projects built in New Brunswick, which were completed between January 1, 1994 and December 31, 2004, for which New Brunswick architects were the lead design architects, registered with the AANB at the time of project completion, are eligible to be submitted.  Any built work may be submitted including new construction, renovation, restoration, and additions to existing buildings; urban, rural or suburban works, of any project size.

Lt.-Gov. Herménégilde Chiasson,
artist Peter Powning, and  Ed Goguen, president of the Architects Association

AWARDS

This competition will result in the awarding of one Lieutenant Governor’s Award of Excellence in Architecture and up to three Awards of Merit in Architecture.

The projects will be judged on their own merits, there are no categories of project types.

Award Announcement and exhibition

The winners will be announced on Friday March 18, 2005 at a gala reception at Old Government House, Fredericton.  This gala will also mark the opening of a public exhibition of selected submissions.  Winning submissions will also be featured in general media coverage.  Selected submissions will be kept by the AANB for public relations purposes, including future exhibitions in communities throughout the Province.  Entrants must be in attendance at this gala event.

Internationally recognized artist Peter Powning, has been commissioned to create the award for this competition.  This award will be displayed in Old Government house in recognition of excellence in architecture along with the winning submission.
 

JURY

Jury members are to be confirmed.  The jury will contain representation from national, regional and local perspectives.

All submissions will be prescreened for conformance to the submission criteria, prior to being judged.  The decision of the Jury will be final.