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Brigitte Shim and A. Howard Suttcliffe.
Architects.

Ace Hotel: The esteemed husband-and-wife team outfitted the city’s buzziest hotel with an undulating brick façade and a cavernous lobby encased in waves of concrete and wood. It’s the most inspired piece of architecture Toronto has seen in years.

Point William Cottage: This year, Shim-­Sutcliffe won a coveted Governor General’s Medal in Architecture for a modernist Muskoka gem that wraps around a chunk of Canadian Shield. It’s also the subject of a new coffee table book that includes photos by Edward Burtynsky.

Integral House: While presenting Shim with a lifetime achievement award, the Association of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs made special mention of this masterful home and private concert hall, which Shim-Sutcliffe built into a Rosedale hillside.

Full article: Toronto Life