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Rammed-earth Wall Building Awarded Canada’s Highest Honour in Architecture
 

May 7, 2008: Vancouver, BC, CanadaHotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects (HBBH) has been awarded Canada’s highest honour for the design of a First Nations cultural centre, which includes the largest rammed-earth wall in North America. Announced yesterday by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and Canada Council for the Arts, the Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, in Osoyoos, BC, will receive a Governor General’s Medal in Architecture, to be awarded at a ceremony in Ottawa later this year. Read more.