Photo © Craig Boyko. Photo courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario.

Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) won an award for its use of wood for walls, feature stairs, ramps, and furniture.

Six Canadian projects were among the winners of the 2009 Wood Design Awards, which acknowledges projects across North America.

Receiving an Honour Award is the Prefab Cottage for Two Families project, which is a year-round cottage in Muskoka, Ont. The Kohn Shnier Architects design is separated by seven units stacked on top of each other, and encompasses a long, narrow, wooden causeway travelling to the public upper floor.

The Richmond Olympic Oval, designed by Cannon Design Architecture, also won an Honour Award. Located in Richmond, B.C., it encompasses a "flight, flow, and fusion" concept as the wooden roof was created in a shape resembling heron wings. (For more information on the Oval, see the November 2009 issue of Construction Canada.)

Other Canadian winners included:
• Merit Award: Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall (Toronto)–Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects;
• Citation Award: Integral House (Toronto)–Shim-Sutcliffe Architects;
• Citation Award: Kingsway Pedestrian Bridge (Burnaby, B.C.)–Busby Perkins+Will Architects; and
• Special Award: Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)–Gehry International.

Sponsored by the Canadian Wood Council, the program featured 16 winners selected from 130 entries in the categories of residential, institutional, commercial, and recreational buildings.

For a complete list of winners, visit www.cwc.ca.

Photo © Tom Arban

An Honour Award was given to Prefab Cottage for Two Families for its stacked seven wooden units and wooden pathway design.