Farah Al Amin




 Centennial College - A Building Expansion
Scarborough, ON, Canada
2019 - 2023
DIALOG


Architectural Design Team 
Farah Al Amin (Architectural Designer)
Juan Carlos Portuese
Eladia Smoke
Craig Applegath
Chen Cohen
Jason D’Altroy
Maya Jarrah
Leo Decaney
Otto Ojo



Area
133,000 ft2 Expansion
16,000 ft2  Renovation

Collaborators
Smoke Architecture
EllisDon

Client 
Centennial College

Awards
RTC GADA – 2024 Institutional Built
Architizer A+Awards – 2024 Winner Educational Interiors
The Architecture MasterPrize - 2024 Other Interior Design
OAA – 2024 Design Excellence Awards Winner
OAA – 2024 People’s choice
Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design - 2024 Social Good
Wood Design & Building Awards - 2024 Woodworks Ontario Awards
Interior Design Magazine - 2024 Best of Year
FSC - 2024 Leadership award
IDC - 2024 VODA
BLT Awards - 2024 Institutional Interior Design
CertainTeed Gypsum Trophy Awards - Canada Winner
Canadian Interiors Best of Canada – 2023 Single Detail winner
AIA Canada Society – 2023 Award of Merit
CGAGBC – 2024 New Construction
Architizer A+Awards – 2021 Special Mention Unbuilt Educational
RTC GADA – 2020 Institutional Concept

Photography
James Brittain Photography

© Farah Al Amin, DIALOG, James Brittain Photography




A poetic response to the pattern of seed, growth, culmination, and balance in a continuous cycle. The position of spaces and the flow through the building are guided by the medicine wheel teachings oriented to the four cardinal directions, and the directions of up, down, and centre. A manifestation of reconcilaition.

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