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Architecture
Measured Architecture
A Measured Dose Our
winners are partners in a firm that didn’t even exist a year ago—a
company with just a few exquisite finished projects to its name.
THE JUDGES
 Arthur
Erickson has been a Vancouver-based architect, designer, teacher, mentor,
writer and speaker. He has contributed for more than five decades to the architectural
community in Canada and worldwide. His numerous awards include Gold Medals from
the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the American Institute of Architects,
and the French Academie d’Architecture.
 Brian
Hemingway began his career with Thompson Berwick Pratt & Partners,
Vancouver’s oldest architectural firm. Today, he continues to practice on
his own in Vancouver and has mentored scores of students through UBC and the Architects
in Training program. He has completed public projects and private homes of lasting
impact on the West Coast and beyond.
 Jeremy
Sturgess has been internationally recognized for the work of his Calgary-based
firm, which includes distinctive homes, housing at all scales, urban plans and
civic and commercial buildings. He has been appointed to the Royal Canadian Academy
of Arts, and is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and an
adjunct professor at the University of Calgary. A book on his work will be published
next year.
Interior
Designers of the Year (tie)
Evoke International Design
Black Tie Optional From award-winning
homes to neighbourhood watering holes and hip T-shirts, this design firm redefines
casual modern living.
Interior
Designers of the Year (tie)
Juli Hodgson, Design/Build
West Coast Glam This designer
brings the hallmarks of her playful and glamorous restaurant and retail designs
home to residential interiors.
THE JUDGES
 Kelly
Deck’s talent for uniting beauty and simplicity has inspired the
unique projects for which she has a national reputation. In addition to directing
her Vancouver-based interior design firm, she is also the host and designer of
HGTV’s Take It Outside and a design columnist for the Globe and Mail.
 Raymond
Girard was born in Winnipeg; he studied interior design at the University
of Manitoba and architecture at the Université de Montreal. He interned
in Minneapolis with Thomas Hodne Architects and worked in Montreal with Jean-Pierre
Viau and Gervais Harding Design. A natural extension of his branded spaces in
Air Canada’s lounges was a foray into custom publishing; he is now the vice-president,
media and publishing, for Spafax in Toronto.
 Paul
Lavoie has been a Calgary-based residential interior designer for more
than 20 years. His projects include homes in Canada and around the world. His
career has been documented by design magazines such as Architectural Digest and
Western Interiors.
Furniture Designer of the Year
Matthew Kroeker
Splinter Movement A Winnipeg
designer against the grain of straightforward furniture.
THE JUDGES
Niels Bendtsen studied design in Denmark and began importing
modern Scandinavian furnishings to Canada in the 1960s. He now runs Bensen Manufacturing
and Inform Interiors in Vancouver. His 1975 Ribbon Chair is in the permanent collection
of the Museum of Modern Art; his designs are sold across North America.
 Douglas
Coupland lives in Vancouver and studied art and design in Canada, Italy
and Japan. He is the author of the screenplay for Everything’s Gone Green,
novels (The Gum Thief) and non-fiction books. In 2001 he resumed his practice
as a visual artist, with exhibitions in North America, Europe and Asia.
 Tobias
Wong is a New York-based, Vancouver-raised conceptual designer. His work
has been shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Cooper-Hewitt National
Design Museum and is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
This Wallpaper* 2005 Young Designer of the Year is the creative director of 100%
Design Shanghai.
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Eco-Designers
of the Year
Red Flag Design
Flagging Support With its
hip reclaimed-fabric bags, Red Flag is having a banner year.
THE JUDGES
 Helen
Goodland is executive director of Light House Sustainable Building Centre
in Vancouver, dedicated to catalyzing sustainability in BC’s built environment.
She is a LEED-accredited, UK-registered architect who also holds an MBA from UBC
and has more than 15 years of expertise designing and building green structures.
 Len Laycock
is a pioneer in sustainable furniture design and has been a major force in Canadian
furniture for more than 20 years. He is the principal and creative director of
Upholstery Arts, a leading innovator in green furniture design.
Fashion
Designer of the Year
Anna Kosturova
Bottoms Up Racy bikinis by our
winning designer get tied on by celebrities, cover girls and beautiful people
around the globe.
THE JUDGES
 John
Fluevog shoes are sold in top shops around the globe and in his own stores
in Boston, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal
and Vancouver. His designs have appeared in Vogue, have been featured in Anna
Sui and Betsey Johnson fashion shows and have been spotted on celebrities from
Madonna to the White Stripes.
 Peter
J. Nygård is the founder and chairman of Nygård International,
a women’s clothing empire based in Winnipeg (with brands including Peter
Nygård, Bianca Nygård, BNW, Nygård Collection, ALIA, Allison
Daley, and TanJay). The company has more than 200 stores in North America and
is a major supporter of breast cancer research, donating more than $2 million
annually.
Landscape
Designer of the Year
Space2place Design
Space Odyssey Landscape
designers space2place carve a modern niche in the natural order of things.
THE JUDGES
 Thomas Hobbs
is a gardening author (Shocking Beauty, The Jewel Box Garden) and lecturer who
runs Southlands Nursery in Vancouver. His private garden has been featured in
House Beautiful, Better Homes and Gardens and Garden Design. On television, he
has hosted a weekly show on Shaw TV in British Columbia and been featured on Martha
Stewart Living.
 Jim Hole
lives in Edmonton and works nearby at his family’s greenhouse and garden
centre in St. Albert (currently relocating to a state-of-the-art, environmentally
sensitive facility, the first of its kind in North America). Along with to writing
best-selling books, weekly newspaper columns and a twice-yearly magazine (Enjoy
Gardening), Jim can be heard regularly on CBC radio and seen weekly on City TV’s
Your City.
 Cornelia
Hahn Oberlander has collaborated with architects Arthur Erickson, Moshe
Safdie and Renzo Piano on public spaces that integrate the overall architectural
project with the natural environment, like Vancouver’s Robson Square, the
National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the Courtyard Garden at the new New York
Times building. Based in Vancouver, she has received the Order of Canada and is
frequently called Canada’s premier landscape architect.
 Ron Rule
studied landscape architecture at the University or Oregon and has operated his
own design practice, specializing in estate gardens, in Vancouver for more than
30 years. He is the founder and director of the certificate in Garden Design program
at UBC and a columnist in Gardenwise, and he leads historical garden tours to
Europe and lectures regularly to garden groups throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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