Oh, Canada

The 20 firms that won this year's Awards of Excellence from the Interior Designers Institute of British Columbia recently took the stage at the Scotiabank Theaterin Vancouver to enjoy a little limelight. Submitted by members of both the IDI and the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, the projects encompassed 10 categories, among them hospitality, resi-dential, and institutional or educational. Entrants were judged by a panel of three design principals: David Hewitt of Hewitt + Kwasnicky Architects, Jason Kasper of Ideate Design Consulting, and Jerilyn Wright of Jerilyn Wright Associates. The Best of Show citation went to Acton Ostry Architects for its 35,000-square-foot King David High School in Vancouver.

From top: King David High School's steel-screened concrete staircase was one of the elements that earned Acton Ostry Architects the Best of Show award from the Interior Designers Institute of British Columbia. The auditorium's glue-laminated fir columns and beams.