2024

Principal Heather Dubbeldam speaks at Ottawa Architecture Week

Re-imagining Parking Spaces as People Spaces: Park(ing) Day returns Sept 20–22

Principal Heather Dubbeldam receives the King Charles III Coronation Medal

Buone Nuove Women In Architecture exhibition at TMU to feature Principal Heather Dubbeldam

Derek McCallum promoted to Associate Principal

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 2024 Architectural Practice Award

Principal Heather Dubbeldam speaks at the 2024 Banff Session

Director Kevin McIntosh recognized as an Honorary Member by the Ontario Association of Architects

Cosentino selects Dubbeldam to collaborate on their new Toronto City showroom and design hub

Aaron Finbow joins our team as Associate

Twenty + Change launches call for submissions for 6th edition

Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto project breaks ground!

First Look: Forêt Eco Cabins resort

Our proposal for Urbanarium’s Decoding Density competition aims to transform urban residential neighbourhoods

Principal Heather Dubbeldam speaks at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen Scotland

Associate Derek McCallum to be featured guest at TSA Connect Panel: Career Paths

2023 wraps up with our Bunkie on the Hill project clinching its 5th award

2023

Reconceptualizing Urban Housing exhibition at the Venice Biennale concludes

Principal Heather Dubbeldam speaks at SK Design Week & on CBC Radio

Bunkie on the Hill and Shift House receive Gold Awards at the international Grand Prix du Design Awards

Binary Spectrum announced as winner in AZ Awards

Binary Spectrum wins Popular Choice award at the Architizer A+ Awards

Our practice named in Archello’s 25 ‘Best Architecture Firms in Canada’

Reconceptualizing Urban Housing exhibition inaugurated at Time Space Existence during Venice Architecture Biennale

Flow House featured in Globe & Mail

Principal Heather Dubbeldam featured on panel at the CBN conference

Binary Spectrum finalist in both the AZ Awards and Architizer Awards

Our design research on housing density to be featured at the Venice Biennale

Our prototypes for ‘Missing Middle’ housing published on City of Toronto website

Principal Heather Dubbeldam speaks on panel at the Interior Design Show

2022

Principal Heather Dubbeldam moderates BEAT Leadership Seminar

Feature article on our studio in Designlines magazine

Three projects win Canadian Interiors Awards for 2022!

Our feasibility study for the Beaches-East York Missing Middle has been published on the City of Toronto Website

Announcing Park(ing) Day Toronto!

Three projects receive 2022 Grand Prix du Design Gold Awards!

Principal Heather Dubbeldam at the Italian Contemporary Film Festival

Principal Heather Dubbeldam named to WLI Championship Team

Our projects win two international Architizer A+ Awards this year

Architecture Studio Tours as part of Doors Open 2022

Principal Heather Dubbeldam at the Interior Design Show 2022

Bata Shoe Factory receives Active House Award

Flow House featured on the cover of Designlines Magazine

Lokaal Coworking is featured in Canadian Architect Magazine

Dubbeldam to design City of Toronto’s pilot project for sustainable Missing Middle housing

Dubbeldam team members participate in this year’s BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration

Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto renovation and addition moves forward to the next stage of the project

2021

2021 wraps up with an additional three project awards

Binary Spectrum awarded Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Award

Our office building and the Bata Shoe Factory projects receive Architecture Masterprize Awards

Our practice is shortlisted in competition to reimagine the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club

We’ve been selected for Phase 2 feasibility study for Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto extension

Three projects receive 2021 Grand Prix du Design Gold Awards!

Andrew Snow promoted to Associate at Dubbeldam

Our office building featured in Azure Magazine’s Façades Issue!

Garden Circle House featured on the cover of Milan’s Casa Naturale Magazine

Vote for The Bata Shoe Factory for Archdaily’s Building of the Year Award

Principal Heather Dubbeldam launches Twenty+Change: Emerging Talent Edition in conjunction with Canadian Architect Magazine with open call for submissions

2020

Our own office building awarded International Design Award

We win Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Award for our own office!

Our office building featured in Globe & Mail

Principal Heather Dubbeldam delivers talk as part of public lectures on architecture series

Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto awards our practice with renovation and expansion of their heritage golf club building

Three of our projects are selected as finalists for Interior Design Magazine’s Best of Year awards

Bata Shoe Factory project honoured with a 2020 Brownie Award

Principal Heather Dubbeldam receives University of Toronto Arbor Award

Bata Shoe Factory featured in Globe & Mail

Principal Heather Dubbeldam on the cover of Ace Update Magazine

Bata Shoe Factory revitalization featured in Canadian Architect

Bata Shoe Factory receives Canadian Green Building Award

Walper Hotel featured in Globe & Mail

Skygarden House is featured in Toronto Life Magazine Eco-Living issue

Principal Heather Dubbeldam invited to speak at the University of Aberdeen School of Architecture in Scotland UK on sustainable design

2019

We sign on to Canadian Climate Declaration group Architects Declare – A Climate and Biodiversity Emergency

Garden Circle House featured in The Globe & Mail

Azure Publishing Office wins Architecture MasterPrize

The Walper Hotel wins its 6th design award

Architecture Studio Tours as part of Doors Open 2019

Acorn Homes selects our office to design their modern and sustainable housing development in Ontario

TinyFarm prototype exhibited at Milan Design Week 2019

Principal Heather Dubbeldam honoured with the G. Randy Roberts Service Award

Principal Heather Dubbeldam travels to Valencia, Spain to attend Cevisama to research the latest innovations in sustainable tile manufacturing

Lokaal Coworking, our co-working space, officially opens in Toronto’s Corso Italia neighbourhood

2018

Read our newest blog post on White Arkitekter’s innovative sustainable Stockholm office

Fast Company Magazine honours our practice with Innovation By Design award

Finishing touches go into Lokaal Coworking Space as it gets ready to welcome new members

Principal Heather Dubbeldam featured on the cover of Canadian Interiors magazine

Sidewalk Labs selects our firm to design new flexible unit housing typology

Our team heads off to Scandinavia for the next leg of the professional Prix de Rome research on innovations in sustainable design

Our team visits the highly sustainable Royal Seaport development in Stockholm

We’re excited to announce our new office location!

The Walper Hotel wins Best Designed Hotel Award from Hotelier Magazine

The Walper Hotel wins a Best of Canada Award from Canadian Interiors

Skygarden House wins International Design Award

Slack’s Toronto Office gets a spotlight in FRAME Magazine

Skygarden House wins an Architecture Masterprize award

Skygarden House wins an Active House award

2017

Slack Toronto Office and The Walper Hotel receive Honoree Awards from Interior Design Magazine

The Walper Hotel finalist for 3 Gold Key Awards for Hospitality Design in NYC

Slack Toronto Office and Walper Hotel finalists for Interior Design Magazine’s Best of Year Awards

Slack Toronto Office featured on the cover of Canadian Interiors

Scott Sampson promoted to Associate

Our team travels to Denmark for Sustainable Innovation research as part of Professional Prix de Rome award

Principal Heather Dubbeldam presents at RAIC Festival of Architecture in Ottawa

Principal Heather Dubbeldam named one of the world’s 30 “must-know” women architects by Azure Magazine

Progress update on our new office building renovation

Principal Heather Dubbeldam featured on the cover of Globe Style, as one of “Toronto’s leading female architects”

Principal Heather Dubbeldam speaks at Interior Design Show in Toronto

2016

Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity selects our firm to design their new building

Principal Heather Dubbeldam lectures in St. John’s, Newfoundland

Toronto Life names our studio as one of the best architects and designers in the city

Skygarden House wins Best of Canada Award

The Walper Hotel opens in Kitchener

The Next Green research featured on the cover of Globe Arts

Slack Technologies selects our firm to design their Toronto office

Our studio wins the 2016 Professional Prix de Rome for our research project, “The Next Green.”

Skygarden House wins one of nine Canadian Green Building awards

We’re moving!

Skygarden House featured on the cover of Globe Real Estate

Skygarden House wins International Architizer A+ award

Skygarden House wins an OAA Design Excellence award

2015

Our practice wins two Interior Design magazine Best of Year Awards

Travelzoo Office receives two Honoree awards at Interior Design magazine’s MakeItWork awards in San Francisco

Annex House featured on the cover of the Globe & Mail Real Estate section

Principal Heather Dubbeldam inducted to Royal Architectural Institute of Canada College Fellows

Principal Heather Dubbeldam speaks at Doors Open Toronto

Contrast House featured in London, UK magazine Grand Designs

Travelzoo moves into their Canadian headquarters in Toronto

Principal Heather Dubbeldam launches 4th edition of Twenty+Change: Next Generation with open call for submissions from emerging design practices

2014

2014 rounds out with 5 awards for Dubbeldam projects

Toronto Life names Principal Heather Dubbeldam one of “Toronto’s best architects”

Travelzoo selects our firm to design their Canadian Headquarters

Through House featured in London, UK magazine Grand Designs

The Historic Walper Hotel in Kitchener selects us to redesign their interiors

Through House wins an Award of Merit and the People’s Choice award at the Azure AZ Awards

Bata Shoe Factory selects our firm as Design Architect for their redesign alongside Quadrangle Architects

Through House wins an Award of Excellence and the People’s Choice Award at the OAA Awards

Bata Penthouse featured on the cover of Globe & Mail Real Estate section

Through House short-listed for Azure AZ Award

Through House featured on the cover of Toronto Life Real Estate Guide

Pop-Up Office receives a Special Mention in the Architizer A+ Awards

Through House wins Ontario Association of Architects Design Excellence Award

Through House featured in Canadian Interiors magazine Houses issue

Through House featured in Sweden’s Vart Nya Hus Magazine

2013

Annex House featured in Toronto Life Great Spaces

Interior Design magazine awards Pop-Up Office Best of Year honoree in New York

Pop-Up Office wins Canadian Interiors Best of Canada Award

Bata Penthouse featured on the cover of Maison & Demeure magazine

Bata Penthouse featured as Home of the Month in Canadian House & Home

Through House wins one of eight Canadian Green Building Awards

Azure Magazine features Pop-up Office in their Offices issue

Pop-up Office featured in Globe & Mail

Pop-Up Office featured at Ryerson Interior Design School

Principal Heather Dubbeldam honoured with the RAIC Advocate for Architecture Award

Pop-up Office featured on Archdaily, Treehugger, Domus, Designhoom, Mocoloco, House & Home blog and more

Pop-up Office moves to new home in 401 Richmond

Through House featured on cover of Designlines Spring 2013 issue

Globe & Mail names Principal Heather Dubbeldam one of “Canada’s Top Talents”

Pop-up Office modular concept launches at IDS13

Globe & Mail Style features our studio and current work

Pop-up Office takes up new temporary residence at Ryerson University’s School of Architecture

Contrast House wins Special Mention in Architizer A+ Awards

2012

The Interior Design Show invites our studio to design a concept space at the January 2013 Show.

White House project featured in the Globe Style Advisor

Walmer Loft project featured in Brazilian magazine, Construir

Principal Heather Dubbeldam interviewed on Extraordinary Women TV

Contrast House featured in magazines from Germany and Czechoslovakia

2011

Contrast House wins Design Exchange award

Cabbagetown Residence featured in international publication 150 Best Eco House Ideas

Contrast House wins Best of Canada award

Through House makes the cover of Toronto Life Home Guide

Contrast House featured in Designlines Magazine spring issue

pull.push.slide.pivot.lift.tilt.turn installation wins Ontario Association of Architects award

pull.push.slide.pivot.lift.tilt.turn installation at Harbourfront Centre featured in Canadian Architect magazine

Beach House featured in January issue of Chatelaine magazine

2010

Wallpaper.com features our practice

Cabbagetown Residence project featured in January issue of VIEW magazine, China Eastern Airlines in-flight magazine

Cabbagetown Residence project featured in January issue of Canadian Interiors magazine

2009

Beach House wins Silver Award of Excellence in Interior Design Residential at the Design Exchange national awards

Cabbagetown Residence project featured as first Canadian project on Wallpaper.com interactive floor plans

John Bentley Mays’ ‘Perfect House’ column features Cabbagetown Residence

Principal Heather Dubbeldam interviewed in Globe & Mail article ‘Liquid Assets’ on water conservation

Cabbagetown Residence featured in April issue of Canadian Architect magazine

Cabbagetown Residence featured in Spring issue of Azure Magazine’s Designlines

Walmer Loft House featured in Globe & Mail

2008

Cabbagetown Residence wins Design Exchange Award

Ontario Association of Architects awards our firm with 2008 Best Emerging Practice Award

2006

Dubbeldam receives a Best of Canada Canadian Interiors Award for its innovative room design at Toronto’s historic Gladstone Hotel

NOW Magazine recognizes Gladstone Hotel room design with a Best of Toronto designation