Image credit: MCHAPMies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) director Dirk Denison and 2025 MCHAP jury chair Maurice Cox have announced the five finalists for the 2025 Americas Prize, which include Canadian project Pumphouse in Winnipeg, Manitoba, by 5468796 Architecture.The 2025 Americas Prize honours the best work of architecture completed in North, Central, or South America between June 2022 and December 2023. The following are the five finalists.Pumphouse. Photo credit: 5468796 ArchitecturePumphouse, 5468796 ArchitectureWinnipeg, CanadaSlated for demolition after 14 failed attempts to revive Winnipegs historic James Avenue Pumping Station, 5468796 developed a conceptual design that was paired with a financial pro-forma and presented the business case to an existing client, connecting them with the City as an owner and eventually leading to the buildings successful preservation through private investment. The new approach considers the pumphouse a found object and uses the existing buildings structural properties while proposing an expansive and diverse public realm weaving into the fabric of the Exchange District National Historic Site. The project is made up of two residential blocks flanking the historic pumphouse building repurposed as an office and restaurant.A plot that had no future, pushing zoning and regulatory envelope the project builds a contemporary new way of living within the memory of an industrial archaeology. A series of smart strategies allow to maximize the identity of the Pumphouse, the new residential use, views and private and shared spaces in this complex urban plot, said the jury about the project. The abandoned pump house seems to extend its precise and rigorous material language beyond its original enclosure.Read our full review of the project here.Centro de Investigacin Mar de Corts. Photo credit: Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIOCentro de Investigacin Mar de Corts, Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIOMazatln, MexicoA non-prescriptive circulation pattern in this project allows visitors to wander and discover, and move easily between moody indoor spaces, glowing tanks of water holding the aquatic species, and outdoor gardens open to the sky. The building is driven by the spectacle of a captured nature and paves the way for an elevated public architecture for the city as a whole.Clnica Veterinaria Guayaquil. Photo credit: adamo-faidenClnica Veterinaria Guayaquil, adamo-faidenBuenos Aires, ArgentinaThis building was built from the recycling of an urban house from the beginning of the 20th century. The demolition of its central bay, where the circulatory system was originally located, gave way to the creation of a new semi-covered passage that connects the street with a garden open to the community.A concrete floor with exposed stone designed for pets crosses this space where the vegetation and the outside climate are elements. The side bays organized on two levels open onto the central passage. On the lower floor is the store and veterinary clinics while the upper floor features a laboratory, x-ray room and operating room.Ecoparque Bacalar. Photo credit: Colectivo C733Ecoparque Bacalar, Colectivo C733Bacalar, MexicoThe projects main objective was to reduce the requested program and minimize the impact of human activity on the sites flora and fauna. To achieve this, the design was based on precision and lightness, with a focus on maintaining the integrity of the surrounding ecosystem.The centerpiece of the project, which is an squared 800-meter long pier, was designed with various heights to avoid disturbing the mangroves while still providing visitors with a view of the lagoon. The solid parts of the pier house facilities such as a research laboratory and services area, while the shade of tall trees covers an open plain. One of the projects innovative aspects is the use of certified local wood for the structural system.Thaden School, Eskew Dumez Ripple. Photo credit: Marlon Blackwell Architects, and Andropogon AssociatesThaden School, Eskew Dumez Ripple, Marlon Blackwell Architects, and Andropogon AssociatesBentonville, Arkansas, United StatesThe Thaden School project emerged from an understanding of its needs and aspirations, encapsulating a spatial program that integrates interior and exterior spaces. The spatial layout was crafted to adhere to the vision that the school might provide a learning environment beyond benchmarks and standards, and be a place where landscape and buildings might work together in a closed loop of production and consumption.The MCHAP jury trip is above all an opportunity for learning, for careful attention and conversation. This experience of exchange remains at the heart of the prize, said Dirk Denison, MCHAP Director. We cannot wait to share what we have found.This cycle, we have been inspired by the striking presence of each of the finalists, and their inventive responses to distinctive social and environmental contexts. But these projects show us that its not only design leading the way, Denison added. We also recognize the individuals and organizations who have made a commitment to architectures contribution through the civic and cultural initiatives behind these works.The MCHAP 2025 jury includes Maurice Cox (Jury Chair), past planning director, City of Chicago; Giovanna Borasi, director and chief curator, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; Gregg Pasquarelli, founding principal, SHoP Architects, New York; Mauricio Rocha, founder, Taller | Mauricio Rocha, Mexico City, and author of the 2023 Americas Prize winner, the renovation of the Museo Anahuacalli; and Sofia von Ellrichshausen, founding partner, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Concepcin, Chile, and author of Poli House, the 2014 winner of the Prize for Emerging Practice.The authors of the winning project, which is set to be announced at a symposium on May 5, 2025, at IIT, will be recognized with the MCHAP Award, the MCHAP Chair in IITs College of Architecture, and $50,000 to fund research and a publication.The post Canadian project among MCHAP 2025 finalists appeared first on Canadian Architect.