“Congratulations! The building [CBC/Radio-Canada Vancouver] looks beautiful. What you do is important - people are leading their lives in a bright, cheerful, quiet-feeling space.”
— Karen Thomson
Art Consultant CBC/Radio-Canada
“HBBH is the complete package of a team of people that are much more than just architects in what many of us see them to be. They seek to understand what the client wants and needs and then go to work to create something very special.”
— John Neate
Owner, JJ Bean Coffee
“The creations of the twelve recipients of the Governor General’s Medal in Architecture make us appreciate the degree to which Canadian architects have transformed the places where we live, work, share culture and come together into a celebration of beauty and human genius.”
— Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada
2008 Governor General’s Medals in Architecture
on Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre
“This very strong yet entirely discreet cultural centre becomes a site museum – one which innovatively re-presents the locale’s desert earth in the form of an insulating rammed-earth wall. Although very large, the chameleon-like wall defines an ambiguous threshold between landscape and building and positions the partially buried auditorium and exhibition room with strategic orientation. These intimate spaces seem to be defined by a tamed earth and sky rather than walls and ceilings.”
— Anne Cormier, Jury Member
2008 Governor General’s Medals in Architecture
on Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre
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