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A brick farmhouse with a green front door, lit windows, a metal roof, and a stone pathway leading to the entrance, trees surrounding the house at dusk.

2025

DWELL+

Before & After: They Found the Plans for Their Family Farmhouse—and Made a Surprising Discovery

“After locating the blueprints in a drawer, two siblings learn that their Ontario home was updated by a famed British architect who went on to design London’s brutalist Barbican Centre.”

Text by Melissa Dalton

Modern multi-story house with large windows and a deck, surrounded by trees and landscaped yard.

Architizer A+ Awards

Special mention:
hospitality spa & Wellness

Le Spa Manoir Hovey

Interior of a farmhouse-style home with exposed brick fireplace, wooden staircase, and a hallway through an open doorway, featuring neutral walls and framed artwork.

DESIGNLINES MAGAZINE

LAMAS Architecture revivies a john honer classic with a modern farmhouse twist

“In Balderson, a forgotten ‘70s addition by the Barbican architect becomes the anchor for a minimalist, colour-punctuated update.”

Text by Alexandra Whyte

Living room with wooden ceiling, large window, and minimalist furniture including a chair and a potted plant.
Cover of an architectural design community magazine featuring a porch with white siding, large windows, and hanging lanterns, with the text 'ADC Architecture & Design Community'.

LIV HOSPITALITY DESIGN AWARDS

Winner: Architectural Design Wellness Category

Le Spa Manoir Hovey

ADC AWARDS

Silver Winner: Architecture Hospitality & Hotel Design Category

Le Spa Manoir Hovey

A brick building with a large window displaying architecture models and posters. The window has blue framing and the building has a stone sill. The interior shows displayed models and brochures related to architecture.

DeSIGNTO

DELIRIOUS FACADE EXHIBIT FOR DESIGNTO AT SWIPE BOOKS

“‘Delirious Facade’ is a design project that uses image processing artificial intelligence as a generator for architectural form and ornament. The project takes existing Toronto facades and uses their visual signatures or patterns as the material for the generation of hybrid facades.”

Interior of a modern living room with large glass sliding doors that open to a deck and scenic view of trees and water in the distance. The room has a white sofa, a brown leather armchair, a black coffee table, and a dining table with chairs. Light wood flooring and ceiling with exposed beams.

2024

oaa awards
(Ontario association of architectS)

winner: DESIGN excellence awards

Virgin Vineyard House

Book titled "Winter Homes" with a snowy forest scene on the cover, featuring trees and a small cabin.

‘Winter Homes: Stylish Living for Cool Climates’

Book by Jeanette Wall
Virgin Vineyard House

White building with an arched entrance, columns, and a modern design under an overcast sky.

Architecture masterprize

Winner: Hospitality architecture

Le Spa Manoir Hovey

LIV hospitality design awards

Winner: architecturAL DESIGN WELLNESS (SPA, YOGA, RETREAT)

Le Spa Manoir Hovey

2023

Magazine cover titled Azure with a photo of a modern building with a black, sloped roof and large windows, a woman standing inside, and a view of a cityscape in the background.

AZURE MAGAZINE (PRINT. JAN/FEB)

Modern Rural: LAMAS creates an intergenerational home defined by a long stone wall in Quebec’s Eastern Townships

Text by Odile Henault

A modern house with a metal roof and large windows at dusk, surrounded by leafless trees and a stone wall. The word 'archello' is overlaid at the top.

ARCHELLO

AWARDS LONG LisT

Virgin Vineyard House

A modern stone building with a metal roof, surrounded by snow and trees, with the text 'Architizer A+ Awards' overlaid.

Architizer A+ Awards

Special mention

Virgin Vineyard House

A house in a snowy field with leafless trees in the background, overlaid with text that reads 'Gold Certification GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN' and stylized plus signs.

GRAND PRIX DU DESIGN

GOLD CERTIFICATION

Virgin Vineyard House

Modern kitchen with a black marble island, white cabinetry, a stainless steel sink, black curtains, and a staircase with wooden steps.

2022

ARCHITECTS Newspaper

TORONTO TOWNHOUSE WINS ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER "BEST OF DESIGN" AWARD FOR INTERIOR RESIDENTIAL

“The elegant and clever figural void strategy integrates circulation and light and is literally a breath of fresh air into the otherwise dark townhouse typology. Soft geometric transformations of the void across the vertical spaces creates moments of domestic wonder.” —Tei Carpenter

Empty auditorium with rows of chairs, a large screen showing a green hilly landscape with a tree, wooden walls, and hanging ceiling lights.

ARCHITECTS Newspaper

FOLLY TREE ARBORETUM WINS ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER "BEST OF DESIGN" AWARD FOR UNBUILT CULTURAL CIVIC EDUCATION

“Strangeness abounds in this proposal to add on to an existing barn. The design, with its lofted shingle roof, is a hybrid cultivated from architectural references like New England barns, Gwathmey modernism, and contemporary formalisms. The resulting spaces, expertly rendered, are weird and compelling.” —Jack Murphy

Modern kitchen with wooden cabinets, white walls, and an open doorway leading to a living space. The ceiling has exposed wooden beams, and there are shelves with glassware and kitchen utensils.

Architecture MasterPrize

WINNER:
Best Residential Architecture - Single Family

Virgin Vineyard House

2020

Interior of a modern, industrial-style bar or event space with a navy blue bar counter and wooden chairs, with colorful decorations hanging from the ceiling and large metallic ductwork overhead, promoting the FRAME Awards.

FRAME AWARDS 2020

WINNER:
BEST BAR OF THE YEAR

Avling Kitchen & Brewery

"In my heart I feel like Avling is more important for now. It’s a forward-looking idea of how things in the future will be used." - Caroline Cundall, director of interior design for Europe at InterContinental Hotels Group "The informality was a very conscious aesthetic applied to the notion and intent of the place. And that is very difficult to achieve." - Space Copenhagen co-founder Peter Bundgaard Rützou

Orange background with white and black text reading "50 best architecture firms 2020 domus".

DOMUS

Canadian ArchiteCT

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

LAMAS named "TOP 50 BEST ARCHITECTURE FIRMS 2020

Exterior of a modern building at dusk with a single small tree in front, black truck parked on the street, and illuminated windows; logo and text for NN Architecture Masterprize in the top left corner.

ARCHITECTURE MASTERPRIZE

WINNER:
RESTORATION AND RENOVATION AWARD

Avling Kitchen & Brewery

Two display cases containing architectural models and information panels, with tall city buildings reflected in the glass and a construction barrier in the foreground.

DeSIGNTO

DELIRIOUS FACADE EXHIBIT FOR DESIGNTO AT STACKT MARKET

“The project takes facades that exist in Toronto and uses their visual signatures or patterns as the material for the generation of hybrid facades”

architect MAGAZINE (PRINT. sept)

avling kitchen & brewery

Text by Katie Gerfen

2019

Interior of a modern bar or restaurant with a curved bar counter and wooden chairs, exposed ductwork on the ceiling, large windows, and colorful wall art.

FRAME MAGAZINE WEB

How a bean sprout farm became fertile ground for a Toronto restaurant-brewery

"The designers managed to turn the seemingly inhospitable space into a haven of hospitality: it now hosts a restaurant, rooftop garden and enough basement storage for multiple 4.8-m-tall, 4,000-litre fermentation tanks."

Avling Kitchen & Brewery

The interior of a modern cafe or restaurant with wooden tables and benches, abstract wall art, pendant lighting, and a glass partition.

ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER

honorable mention:
Building Renovation, Commercial CATEGORY

Avling Kitchen & Brewery

Cover of The Architects Newspaper with a white textured background featuring numerous small arched openings.

ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER

WINNER:
RESEARCH CATEGORY

Delirious Facade

Two people standing around a kitchen table looking at architectural plans or designs.

CNN

Rustic yet modern, these converted barns are a creative’s dream

Vivian and James interviewed on CNN Business for Townships Farmhouse

By Anna Bahney

Industrial brewery equipment with fermentation tanks inside a brewery, with large metal tanks, pipes, and ventilation ducts.

DOMUS WEB

22,000 litres of beer and a roof garden in a restaurant in Toronto

Located in an old grocery store, the brewery-restaurant Avling Kitchen & Brewery by LAMAS includes fermentation tanks in the basement and a vegetable roof garden for a self food production.

Text by Francesca Grillo

2018

“TOWNSHIPS FARMHOUSE” pp172-177

The canadian house

Book by Hannah Jenkins

Interior view of a house with large windows, a staircase, a TV on a stand, and a yellow table.

DESIGNLINES

21st Century victorian

"With a strong mix of academic theory and practical expertise, the firm created a bright, beautiful and functional living space in a historic Annex house."

Collage of various modern architectural buildings with the text 'AR HOUSE awards 2018' and 'Shortlist for the AR House awards 2018' in the center overlay.

THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
AR HOUSE AWARDS

SHORTLIST

Townships Farmhouse

An unfinished two-story farmhouse with a metal roof and multiple windows at sunset.

2017

ARCHITIZER A+ AWARDS

TOWNSHIPS FARMHOUSE JURY WINNER Private House XL

"The architects of this large home in rural Canada blended spatial principles of an age-old typology—the traditional barn—with contemporary materials and beautifully considered construction details."

Exterior of a modern farm-style home with wooden siding and multiple windows, set against a dusky sky.

DWELL

An Artist and Farmer Work With a Toronto-Based Studio to Build a Barn-Inspired Home

"An Artist and Farmer Work With a Toronto-Based Studio to Build a Barn-Inspired Home."

Text by Kimberlie Birks

Two people, a woman and a man, sitting at a white table in a bright room with large windows, celebrating or working, with papers and containers on the table.

ARCHITECT MAGAZINE

nEXT PROGRESSIVES:
This Toronto-based duo has an eye for optical illusions, hydrographics, and geometric forms.

“We’re excited by ornament, optical illusions, and lazy forms. Our ideas usually involve the perversion of a precedent, type, or technique. We do research, installations, and work for clients. We respect every situation that allows us to do our work and see each one as a distinct calling for our expertise.”

Text by Katharine Keane

Black and white photo of stacked logs with overlaid large white text reading "R+D" and a paragraph of text describing the fifth annual R+D awards winners in architecture technology.

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ARCHITECT MAGAZINE

Hair, Spikes, Cattail, and Turkeyfoot

“Juror William Massie praised the overall analysis as “extending thoughts of materials and the history and science of building.” “What I really liked about this was this notion of digital fabrication and handcraft coming together,...it is an interesting integration of old methods and new ways of thinking that could, in fact, overlap to other aspects of craft and building.” - Sylvia Smith

Text by Katie Gerfin
2018

ARCHITECT MAGAZINE (Digital + print)

whimsical shaker: lamas crafts a simple, multipurpose aesthetic for a a compact brooklyn bookstore

Text by Olivia Martin
2016