Paul Raff Studio


RVTR Wins 2009 Canada Council Prix de Rome

Architecture firm RVTR won the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture for 2009. RVTR was formed in 2007 by directors Paul Raff, Colin Ripley, Geoffrey Thün and Kathy Velikov as a collaborative practice specifically structured to advance design research.

This award recognizes exceptional talent and achievement in the field of architecture and architectural design and will allow the directors to extend their design research on responsive northern housing and facilitate dissemination of their design work to an international audience.

Cascade House Wins Best of Canada Design Award

PAUL RAFF STUDIO’s Cascade House won Canadian Interiors' 12th annual Best of Canada Design Award for Residential architecture. The winners, chosen from eight design categories, were announced on September 25th in Toronto at IIDEX/Neocon (International Interior Design Exposition), Canada's largest exposition and conference for the design, construction and management of the built environment.
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Winning Concept - City of Regina Gateway

PAUL RAFF STUDIO with collaborator Jyhling Lee has won the competition for a new public artwork as a gateway to the City of Regina. The sculpture is comprised of 17 sculpted monolithic forms that rise and fall sequentially across the landscape in a sweeping arc. Aligned precisely north-south along Lewvan Drive, spanning Regina Avenue, the sculpture is inspired by the area’s origins as a valued water source that aboriginal bison hunters would mark with piles of bones. The sculpture’s forms are made from powder-coated and mirror polished steel, which captures the ever-changing sky and delineates the sun’s path at its summer solstice. In this way, the work connects both native spirituality with modern life and the solar system to the prairie soil.
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PAUL RAFF STUDIO with collaborator Jyhling Lee has won the competition for a new public artwork as a gateway to the City of Regina. The sculpture is comprised of 17 sculpted monolithic forms that rise and fall sequentially across the landscape in a sweeping arc. Aligned precisely north-south along Lewvan Drive, spanning Regina Avenue, the sculpture is inspired by the area’s origins as a valued water source that aboriginal bison hunters would mark with piles of bones.

The sculpture’s forms are made from powder-coated and mirror polished steel, which captures the ever-changing sky and delineates the sun’s path at its summer solstice. In this way, the work connects both native spirituality with modern life and the solar system to the prairie soil.

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Winning Design - New Lifeguard Stands

The City of Toronto has selected PAUL RAFF STUDIO’s lifeguard stands for the Toronto waterfront. The competition winning design reconciles a myriad of technical and safety requirements while retaining an elegant vertical form that possesses an awareness of human scale and contributes positively to public space.

The bright yellow stands are constructed from galvanized and laser cut steel sheets, atop an integrated steel skid to allow easy seasonal relocation. Each stand accommodate two lifeguards and provide clear visibility in all directions, with easy access to all beach safety equipment. Material, texture, colour and proportion combine into a striking design that will be emblematic of, but not intrusive to Toronto’s waterfront.


Toronto Transit Comission Public Art Project

PAUL RAFF STUDIO has been selected from an international call for artists to create a new public artwork for the Toronto Transit Commission. The artwork is to be sited at the Vaughn Corporate Centre station, the terminus for the Toronto York Spadina Subway north of the city. Paul Raff Studio will work with the New York office of Grimshaw Architects and with ARUP, the international engineering and project management firm. This project is part of a larger public art program for the city’s six new subway stations. One artist was selected for each station from an international field of more than fifty applicants.