The 2009 Pug Awards have just wrapped up another successful year!  The event calls on Torontonians to vote online and select the people’s choice awards for architecture. 

What I especially love about these awards are; it not only awards the best but also the mediocre AND the worst of the city’s newest architecture.  This year’s big winner was One St. Thomas for best new building in the residential category. The 29 story luxury condominium (pictured above) was designed by New York architect Robert Stern and is home to 72 intimate suites.  The art deco design can be easily spotted along the Toronto skyline, yet it’s almost hidden on the quite St. Thomas St just south of Bloor before Bay.

The full list of winners/mediocres/losers are:

Residential
Rank Project Name
1 One St. Thomas
2 Quantum 2 – North Tower
3 Kilgour Estates
4 Dia
5 West One
6 The Gallery
7 College Park 2
8 Garment Factory Lofts
9 Regency Yorkville
10 The Clairmont
11 High Park Lofts
12 Loggia 1 & 2
13 Verve
14 Meridian Residences
15 Mosaic
16 One Sherway – Phase 1
17 9T6 Condominiums
18 Panache Condominiums
19 Kingswood on Bloor
20 C-Condominiums
21 Nuvo 2 at Essex
22 Mansions of Humberwood 2
23 Skyscape
24 Hampton Plaza

Commercial/Institutional
Rank Project Name
1 Art Gallery of Ontario
2 Max Gluskin House (U of T Economics)
3 Four Seasons Corporate Headquarters
4 Children’s Aid Society
5 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
6 85 Hanna
7 T.O. Life Square
8 Mount Sinai Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Centre

If you’d like to live in a award winning building contact me…I’d love to help!  The full “Pug Award” press release can be viewed here.