Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) held its annual awards celebration, honouring winners of the Value of Design Awards (VODA) along with the Legacy Award of Distinguished Service and winners of the student competition.
There were nine winning projects in the Innovation in Design Thinking Student Competition by students across Canada.
Vancouver-based Kasian principal and IDC past president, Sally Mills, received the IDC Legacy Award for Distinguished service.
This year, 12 projects were awarded IDC’s coveted Value of Design Awards. These awards, which launched in 2018, shine a spotlight on Canadian interior designers by providing a forum to showcase the benefits of design thinking: an empathetic, inventive, and iterative process focused on the human experience within interior spaces.
The 2024 Value of Design Awards were presented to the following winners who continue to deliver outstanding interior design work.
Award of Excellence
BDP Quadrangle Studio
Marcella Au / BDP Quadrangle in Innovation in Workplace Design (Toronto, ON)
Centennial College A-Building Expansion
Chen Cohen, Camille Ganuelas, Mel Faifman / DIALOG in collaboration with Smoke Architecture in Innovation in Institutional/Educational/Civic Design (Toronto, ON)
Conestoga College Cowan Centre for Medical Sciences and Biotechnology
Valerie Gow / Gow Hastings Architects in Innovation in Institutional/Educational/Civic Design (Kitchener, ON)
Duke’s Castle Barbershop
Shima Radfar, Bahar Zaeem / RZ Interiors in Innovation in Hospitality Design (Aurora, ON)
Gan Shalom Preschool
Elizabeth Ormonde / Turner Fleischer in Innovation in Design Thinking (Toronto, ON)
Menkes Head Office
Tamara Poyato-Rooks, Suzanne Wilkinson, Simon Tibbo, Anna-Lisa Frank / Figure3 in Innovation in Workplace Design (Toronto, ON)
Award of Merit
Innovation Clinic – Dr. Mario Luc
Véronique Chayer / Folio Design in Innovation in Healthcare Design (Laval, QC)
L’Île Mystérieuse
André Davignon / FOR. design planning in Innovation in Hospitality Design (La Malbaie, QC)
StellarAlgo
Jaime Holland / Holland Licensed Interior Design Inc. in Innovation in Workplace Design (Calgary, AB)
Value of Design Award – Honourable Mention
Habitat by Aeon Showroom
Jenn Mehrer / McKinley Studios in Innovation in Retail Design (Vancouver, B.C.)
Serein Headquarters
Jenn Mehrer / McKinley Studios in Innovation in Workplace Design (Vancouver, B.C.)
Yorkville Earls Restaurant + Bar
Joanna Kado, Leanne Babcook, and Elly Chronakis / Earls Restaurants in Innovation in Hospitality Design (Toronto, ON)
