TRCA Headquarters Wins 2026 OAA Design Excellence Award
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority Headquarters has received a 2026 OAA Design Excellence Award!
This biennial award recognizes the innovative skills of Ontario architects in creating spaces, buildings, and communities that respect and enhance the environment and enrich human activity. The TRCA Headquarters is one of 10 recipients of this year’s awards.
“An integrated fabric-first approach to building volumetry and envelope design supports optimisation of natural ventilation over the course of the year (with resultant high air quality), using a combination of: atria acting as breathing ‘lungs’, exhausting solar chimneys, temperature mediating ‘water walls’, and microclimate atuned facades. Renewable energy is provided by harnessing geothermal and solar energy.”