The deadline to submit your project to the Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence and Photo Award of Excellence is quickly approaching. Submissions of projects in the design phase or under construction are due on Friday, September 12, 2025.This is also the deadline for submitting your best architectural photo of a Canadian buildingprofessionals, non-professionals and students are welcome to enter.Heres a look back at some of our winning entries from past years.Winner of a Canadian Architect 2024 Award of Excellence11 Brock is one of five projects resulting from a City of Toronto partnership with the Federal Government to create urgently needed supportive and affordable housing under the Rapid Housing Initiative. Targeting housing-ready sites, the initiative funds projects that are fast-tracked from project start to occupancy within 18 months. Juror Matthew Hickey wrote, The need for supportive housing is at a crisis point across Canada. 11 Brock Avenue not only addresses this need, but does so in a way that understands the effects of good design and the critical need for a baseline of net-zero and low carbon in building construction. This project prioritizes community through the design of an interior single-loaded corridor that promotes access to light and views to the communal spaces along the courtyard. The street faade expresses the rigour of mass timber construction, while still being playful and achieving a balance between opaque and transparent surfaces.Winner of a Canadian Architect 2023 Award of ExcellenceDesigned by Edmonton-based Reimagine Architects Ltd., the Frog Lake First Nations Children & Family, Intervention/Prevention Horse Healing Centre offers healing for residential school survivors and others who have experienced trauma through traditional and modern methods centred on interaction between humans and horses. Juror Claire Weisz wrote: An active community, the equestrian cultural legacy of the Peoples of Frog Lake, and the land itself combine to create an almost new type of community centre. The open and curved vault is distinctive and approachable, and shows great promise for creating an inspiring shared space for horses and people, under a mass timber structure and atop an earthen floor.Winner of a Canadian Architect 2023 Award of ExcellenceIsmaili Centres mark the community presence of the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam in more than two dozen countries throughout the world. Located in the Toronto suburb of Thorncliffe Park, the Don Mills Jamatkhana and Ismaili Community Centre, designed by architectsAlliance, will mark the site of the first Ismaili prayer hall in Ontario, and will also contain a gymnasium, library, food drop-off area, administrative offices, and multi-purpose teaching spaces. A masterful composition of texture and natural light, with places for social interaction as well as spaces for repose, wrote juror Omar Gandhi. The delicate building skin adds magic to an otherwise simple and economical building massing. The juxtaposition of the building massing and large refined spaces with the highly textured landscape approach is magnificent.Winner of the 2024 Canadian Architect Photo Award of ExcellenceJames Brittains photo of Lcole du Znith, commissioned by Pelletier de Fontenay, claimed the top prize in our 2024 Photo Awards of Excellence. There is an honest, direct beauty to this photographqualities that seem to be mimicked in the design of the space itself. Without seeming staged, the scene authentically captures a quiet moment in a school auditorium. The composition wonderfully frames the subject matter with the shape of the triangular window mirroring the child and her belongings. I appreciate the sweet spot that the photographer has found: they placed themselves close enough to show material details, but are also far enough away to evoke a sense of the overall space, writes juror Lisa Stinner-Kun.You can view an archive of more past winners here.To find out more about our jurors, click here.For more information and to enter, click here.The post Get inspired by past winners + enter the Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence! appeared first on Canadian Architect.