Teeple Architects is an architecture firm based in Toronto founded by Stephen Teeple, in the year 1989. The firm is known to design several buildings in Canada, that focus on urban development, and sustainable design.

Stephan Teeple established the firm in Toronto in 1989 and has completed numerous large-scale projects relating to university campus residences and student centres. The firm also has an extended background in various works recognized in institutional, commercial, and residential buildings throughout the Toronto area and beyond the Canadian border. Projects from Teeple Architects are often praised for their creative and successful design responses to the surrounding site, such as reducing carbon emissions within their materials and designs to positively impact the climate, to bringing awareness to social-cultural issues whilst being restricted to tight budgets. On a local, national, and international scale, the work of Teeple Architects has received recognition for design excellence and sustainability. These accolades include six Governor General's Medals for Architecture, Canada's highest architectural honour, the Holcim Award for sustainable innovation, and more than 28 LEED awards.

Selected projects Teeple's works include 60 Richmond Street East Housing Co-operative in Toronto, completed in 2010. Writing about the project in No Mean City, Canadian architecture critic Alex Bozikovic remarks, "It has the gutsy but practical spirit of Toronto's best architecture: It's green, hardy, and very inexpensive, and provides 85 large and comfortable apartments for Toronto Community Housing tenants." In 2015, the studio completed the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, which features an unusual geometric form resembling a dinosaur with skin and bones in Wembley, Alberta. In 2018, Stephen Teeple received an Honorary Degree from Trent University for adding four buildings to Symons Campus, including the triangular, 34,000-square-foot Student Centre.

Education University of Toronto Graduate House (with Thom Mayne), Toronto, Ontario, 2000 Albert Thornbrough Engineering Building, College of Physical and Engineering Science (CPES), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, 2000 North Campus Building, University of Western Ontario (with aTRM Architects), London, Ontario, 2000 Early Learning Centre, Toronto, Ontario, 2003 Arnie Lowenberger Residence, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, 2003 Chemical Science Building, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, 2004 Langara College Library and Classroom Building (with Hancock Bruckner Eng + Wright Architect), Vancouver, British Columbia, 2007 Langara Student Union Building and Academic Building C (with IBI-HB Architects), Vancouver, British Columbia, 2008 Durham College Student Services Expansion, Oshawa, Ontario, 2010 Sadlon Centre for Health and Wellness (with aTRM Architects, Ted Handy and Associates), Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, 2011 Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, 2011 Concert hall at University of Manitoba Morgan State University Calvin and Tina Tyler Hall (with GWWO Architects), Baltimore, Maryland, 2020

Civic Toronto Public Library – Humber Bay Library renovation, Toronto, Ontario, 1996 Toronto Public Library – Bendale Library renovation, Toronto, Ontario, 1999 Toronto Public Library – Eatonville Library reconstruction, Toronto, Ontario, 2001 Ajax Main Central Library, Ajax, Ontario, 2002 Beausoleil First Nation Community Centre, Christian Island, Ontario, 2006 Montrose Cultural Centre (with Kasian Architecture), Grand Prairie, Alberta, 2009 Sherbourne Common Pavilion, Toronto, Ontario, 2011 John M. Harper Library and Stork Family YMCA, Waterloo, Ontario, 2011 GO Pedestrian Bridge, Pickering, Ontario, 2012 Art Gallery of Grand Prairie, Grand Prairie, Alberta, 2012 Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum (with ATB Architects, Reich+Petch), Wembley, Alberta, 2012 Clareview Recreation Centre and Branch Library, Edmonton, Alberta, 2013

Religious Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church, Toronto, Ontario, 2007 Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse, Peterborough, Ontario, 2009

Residential Heathdale House, Toronto, Ontario, 2004 Pachter Residence, Toronto, Ontario, 2005 60 Richmond Street East, Toronto, Ontario 2010 Nobu residences, Toronto, Ontario 2017

Commercial Bensimon Byrne Wellington, Toronto, Ontario, 2002

Awards Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal For outstanding contribution to Canadian culture and service to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

Canadian Governor General's Awards for Architecture 1994, Trent University Childcare Centre 1997, Burt Matthews Hall Addition, University of Waterloo 2002, College of Engineering and Physical Science (addition to Albert Thornborough Building), University of Guelph 2008, Chemical Science Complex, Trent University 2008, Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church 2014, 60 Richmond East Housing Co-operative

Canadian Architect's Award 1996, Centre for Environmental Science & Engineering, University of Guelph 1997, ESE Building, University of Waterloo 1999, Graduate Residence, University of Toronto 2004, New Academic Science Complex, Trent University 2005, Library and Classroom Building, Langara College 2007, 60 Richmond St. East Housing Development 2009, Sherbourne Common Pavilion

Canadian Wood Council Awards 1998, Squirrel`s Nest Childcare Centre

Alberta Architect's Association Awards 2010, Montrose Cultural Centre

Ontario Architect's Association Awards 1994, Trent University Childcare Centre 1997, Burt Matthews Hall Addition, University of Waterloo 2001, Honour Court and Entrance Gate, York University 2002, Graduate Residence, University of Toronto 2002, Eatonville Public Library (Honourable Mention) 2005, Early Learning Centre, University of Toronto (Bronze) 2005, Heathdale House (Honourable Mention) 2006, Chemical Science Complex, Trent University (Honourable Mention) 2007, Pachter Residence 2008, Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church 2010, 60 Richmond St. East Housing Development (Gold Standing) 2012, Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse 2012, Stephen Hawking Centre at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 2014, County of Simcoe Administration Centre

City of Cambridge Urban Design Awards 2003, Preston Branch Library

City of Toronto Urban Design Awards 2000, Eglinton Spectrum Public School (Honourable Mention) 2003, Eatonville Public Library 2011, 60 Richmond St. East Housing Development 2011, Sherbourne Common Pavilion (Honourable Mention) 2021, SQ2 Condos & POPS

City of North York Urban Design Awards 1997, Glen Long Community Centre

City of Mississauga Urban Design Awards 1997, Mississauga Sailing Club 2009, Sherbourne Common Pavilion 2009, Mississauga Plastic Surgery Clinic

City of Scarborough Urban Design Awards 1995, Squirrel`s Nest Childcare Centre

Progressive Architecture Award 1999, Graduate Residence, University of Toronto

Holcim Awards 2005, Library and Classroom Building, Langara College

Plachta Prize for Architecture 1994, Trent University Childcare Centre 2001, Honour Court and Entrance Gate, York University 2007, Pachter Residence

SAB Award 2008, Langara College Library + Classroom Building 2010, 60 Richmond St. East Housing Development (Gold Standing) 2013, Simcoe County Administrative Building

Design Exchange Awards 2005, Early Learning Centre, University of Toronto (Bronze) 2005, Heathdale House (Honourable Mention) 2006, St. Joseph Media 2007, Pachter Residence 2010, 60 Richmond St. East Housing Development (Gold Standing) 2010, Langara Student Union (Honourable Mention)

PUG Awards 2010, 60 Richmond St. East Housing Development

Archdaily Building of the Year Awards 2011, 60 Richmond St. East Housing Development

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