A jury of volunteer experts has made their selection of the best new architecture and public spaces in Hamilton and now we need your to help! Select the Peoples Choice Award by voting for the project you think makes the best contribution to Hamilton’s architecture and public spaces.
Please take a moment to review the images and descriptions of each of the eight award winning projects below and then vote for the project you think is best.
Voting will close December 5, 2007. The winner will be announced at the beginning of the December 12, 2007 meeting of Hamilton City Council.
Nominees are:
East Kiwanis Place Stonechurch Family Health Centre Southwest Crossings McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences Library Woodward Environmental Laboratory The MacNab Terrace The James North Art Crawl Landscapes of Ancaster
Seriously, I'm voting for the James North Art Crawl.
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the Spec has had a piece each day this week on a different project.
Someone with photo uploading capabilities should stick them all in here.
Today's was awesome - the McNab Terrace.
The winner, by popular vote, of the City of Hamilton's Urban Design and Architecture People's Choice award is McMaster University's faculty of health sciences library. The award was presented at city council last night.
The project was selected through votes cast for each of eight award winning projects previously chosen by a jury of volunteer experts for honours in various categories.
The library project, by architect Joanne McCallum, of McCallum Sather Architects Inc., was chosen initially as winner of the award of excellence for architecture.
At the time, McCallum described the library as "a beautiful glass box" inserted into concrete walls of the medical centre. All the glass provides a link between medical students and the world around them.
I guess the people like these new fangled glass buildings. Build some more!
The library is pretty nice, There's so much glass they have signs up that say "caution: glass wall"
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I voted for the MacNab Terrace, with Southwest Crossing as a close second. I love the Mac Library as a work of architecture, but I decided to vote based on which project I thought had the most potential to be a positive catalyst for change. I'm not sure the library, lovely as it is, will have much of an impact beyond the campus.
I think I voted James North Art Crawl and then McNab Terrace. James North Crawl would be a tough sell among Hamiltonians since most have never been.
Once you go though, it grabs you and gives you a whole new view of that area and the city.
The Crawl's the best. It deserves a special award all its own. I just thought a design and architecture award should go to something that occupies physical space in the urban environment. Off to the Crawl tonight for the opening of Hamilton Artists' Inc. Should be great.
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