Monday, October 24, 2011
Lola Sheppard of Waterloo’s School of Architecture was a recipient of the 2011 Holcim Gold Award awarded in Washington D.C. to Lateral Office/Infranet Lab headed by Sheppard and Mason White of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. The architectural firm, based in Toronto and Princeton, New Jersey, was awarded the top prize of $100,000 by the Holcim Awards Program that honours sustainable North American construction projects. The winning project is designed to create an Arctic Food Network in Nunavut to overcome the dependence of the Inuit community on expensive imported food products and serve as a series of bases for the reinforcement of traditional hunting.