Pug Awards

The Pug Awards are a Toronto architecture award that rates buildings based on popular votes. Each spring the Pug Awards website lists all buildings completed the previous year in the Old City of Toronto that have more than 50,000 feet of floor space. The awards were created in 2004 by Gary Berman and Anna Simone . They were originally named the "Fugly Awards" and highlighted the ugliest buildings completed, but the name was then softened to the Puglies, and finally to the Pugs, with a Pug dog as the mascot. In 2008 the awards introduced the "Pug Cup," which will be carved each year with the winning building and displayed at City Hall.

2008 awards

*Best residential: Argyle Authentic Lofts
*Best commercial/institutional: Hazelton Hotel
*Worst building: 76 Shuter

2007 awards

*Best residential: One King West
*Best commercial/institutional: Gardiner Museum
*Worst building: Be Bloor Condominium by Roy Varacalli

2006 awards

*Best residential: 18 Yorkville
*Best commercial/institutional: National Ballet School of Canada
*Worst building: Glenlake

2005 awards

*Best residential: Waterclub I
*Best commercial/institutional: Toronto Police Service's 51 Division
*Worst building: Wellington Square

ee also

*Architecture of Toronto

External links

* [http://www.pugawards.com/ Official site]

References

*Goldberg, Brianna. [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/06/04/and-the-pug-award-goes-to.aspx "Low-rise lofts triumph at annual Pug Awards."] "National Post." Don Mills, Ont.: Jun 5, 2008. pg. A.15
*Ouellette, Robert. "How the Pug Awards saved Toronto." "National Post." Don Mills, Ont.: May 2, 2008. pg. A.10
*Hume, Christopher. "So T.O. who's the Pugliest of them all?" "Toronto Star." Toronto, Ont.: Jun 7, 2006. pg. B.04