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NIAGARA HOLDS BIENNIAL DESIGN AWARDS

win). This was a team win, a team project," he said.

Whereas on Henley Island it was a new building fitting into an existing site, the power station was a rethinking of a building that's more than a century old, turning it into a site the public can visit and where they can learn about Niagara's power generation history.

The jury awarded the grand prize for its approach to adaptive reuse.

"It is like no other project submitted and is beautifully executed," the jurists said.

"(It) displays the archeology of modern tools and is a cultural heritage artifact of the pioneering electrical era."

But Adames was also quick to spread the acclaim around.

"I was struck by the quality of all the projects," he said. "All the designs were beautiful."

In total, 11 designs received recognition across three levels: Grand prize, outstanding achievement, and award of excellence.

Here are the other winners and their categories.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT

Walker Sports and Abilities Centre, architecture; Niagara College Student Commons, architecture; Lincoln's Rotary Park, landscape architecture; Niagara Region's Bridge Street roundabout in Niagara Falls, landscape architecture; The Gardens at the Pillar & Post Inn, landscape architecture; Niagara-onthe-Lake

Museum's poppy project, outdoor art; and Thorold's Port Robinson Ecological Park Master Plan, visionary design;

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

Spirit in Niagara Distillery, architecture; and Lincoln's Downtown Bench Alley in Beamsville, outdoor art.

ABOUT THE AWARDS

This was the second Niagara Biennial Design Award ceremony. The event replaced the former community design awards and recognizes projects completed between Jan. 1, 2020 and Sept. 16, 2022.

Jurists judged nominations based on several criteria, including innovation, stakeholder engagement, quality of execution, comprehensiveness, vibrancy, contextual response and sustainability.

Nominations came in from 10 of 12 Niagara municipalities and of the submissions, two-thirds were public sector, and one-third private sector projects.

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