1910 – Premiated entry for Knox College, Toronto, Canada

Visually attractive design by Toronto architect George Gouinlock in architectural competition to design a Theological College.

“The whole of the accommodation required is worked out in a compact form, thus providing the greatest convenience in arrangement and allowing for adequate supervision and lighting. With this object in view, the different parts of the structure are so placed as to give all courts an ample amount of light, air and sun. No part of the building intended for residential purposes occupies any portion of the ground facing the University lawn; while on the other ‘hand no portion used for academic purposes occupies any part of the ground facing St. George Street. The chapel can be entered directly from the main building, and is so arranged that it could be omitted for the present and built when funds are forthcoming. Both the entrance from the University lawn and St. George Street affords direct and dignified access right through to either side by means of a well-lighted and architecturally treated corridor, ten feet wide, which being centrally located, is designed a facility egress from the building equally as convenient from either side.”

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