The Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Factory was awarded the Elizabeth R. Murray Award at a ceremony at the Warring House in Prince Edward County last night. The award is granted to the most sustainable P.E.C. building each year. The award was name after a former municipal planner who was a tireless advocate of sustainable architecture and planning issues. #Awards #Sustainable #Sustainablearchitecture #Press #FifthTownPavilion #FifthTownCheese #FifthTown #greenarchitecture

Lapointe Architect has been selected to exhibit our work at the Twenty + Change exhibition, opening in Toronto on June 3, 2009, in conjunction with the City of Toronto's Festival of Architecture and Design. Twenty + Change is an annual exhibition series "dedicated to profiling emerging designers working in architecture, landscape and urban design." The exhibition is scheduled to travel across Canada after closing in Toronto. For more information about the exhibition, please s

The principal of Lapointe Architects, Francis, has been asked to present some of his work at the upcoming 2009 Wood Design Conference to be held in late February in Sudbury and Winnipeg . Francis' presentation will describe the use of non-dimensional wood for the construction of green buildings. A review of the use of small diameter logs to create simple organic structures will be followed by the use of wood in the moist environment of the award winning Fifth Town Artisan Che

The Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Factory has won a fourth design award. The 2008 Ontario Concrete Architectural Merit Award is awarded to "buildings or other structures in which the architectural considerations or design predominantly influenced the overall project". For more information on the awards please see: http://www.ontarioconcreteawards.ca/ or read more about the awards in the Daily Commercial News at http://dcnonl.com/article/id31622&search_term=Fifth%20Town. Photo by

Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Factory has won the Staff Choice Design Exchange Award. The awards were announced on November 25, 2008 at a gala dinner held on the historic Trading Floor at the Design Exchange (DX), Canada s design museum. Established in 1991, the Design Exchange Awards are the only Canadian multi-disciplinary design competition to judge designers work on commercial effectiveness. Presented by Canadian Business Magazine, the Awards support the DXs mandate to foster

The Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Factory's innovative use of geothermal technology was recently recognized with an Award of Excellence by the Canadian GeoExchange Coalition. The technology that was recognized by this award was a 12 ton Ice Kube GeoExchange™ system, which works by transferring heat from areas requiring cooling (i.e. the refrigerators) to areas requiring heat (i.e. the hot water tanks). When there is an excess or deficiency in heat, the heat pump draws a glycol-wa

The Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Factory has won the 2008 Wood WORKS! Green Building Wood Design Award. The Wood WORKS! Awards (by the Canadian Wood Council) recognize people and organizations dedicated to pioneering and preserving the use of wood in Ontario. The Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Factory makes substantial use of wood in its various forms. Examples include Durisol's stay-in-place wall form system made from waste wood chips, reclaimed wood from local barns, and more than

The Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Factory held its grand opening this past Saturday and Sunday. The festivities included a Wine and Cheese sampling, an art tour and a building tour. Francis led the 12 building tours and provided detailed explanations of the ground source heat loops and pump and explained how the system both heats and cools the building and the refrigerators. Francis also answered questions from the visitors regarding the rain water cistern, the constructed wetlan

Drywalling has begun at the Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Factory. This is one of the last steps to be completed before the installation of finishes begins. The Owners hope to begin producing test batches of cheese in their new facility by the end of March, with a Grand Opening scheduled for early May. #FifthTownCheese #FifthTown #architecture #greenarchitecture #Sustainablearchitecture

The structural framing for the Fifth Town Cheese factory was completed earlier this week, and the floor slab for the underground cheese aging caves was poured. The contractor expects to waterproof the building in ealry December and be ready for insulation and finishes shorthly thereafter. Cheese production is scheduled to start in late February. #FifthTownCheese #FifthTown #Sustainablearchitecture #architecture #OurProject #greenarchitecture

Lapointe Architects has been selected to complete a lakefront redeve-lopment study for the small northern Ontario town of Wawa. Several years ago, Wawa loss its main employer and as a result, its population has decreased and several businesses have closed. The people of Wawa has since been striving to bring new economic development to the town. A consultant's report recently identified the need to upgrade Wawa's beach and reinforce its connection to Wawa's main commercial str

Construction on the exterior walls for the Fifth Town Cheese Factory is nearing the halfway point. The exterior walls are built with Durisol stay-in-place wall forms (http://www.durisol.com/) which are manufactured from a mixture of raw wood chips and shavings, neutralized and mineralized then bonded together with Portland cement. The R-value of the Durisol blocks combined with the optional built-in insulation and the thermal mass of the concrete far exceeds minimum standards

Countygreen.ca is a web site focussing exclusively on sustainable living concepts in Prince Edward County. Francis was recently interviewed by the authors of the site, and was asked questions ranging from Francis' initial exposure to 'green' architecture to the role sustainable architecture principles played in the design of Fifth Town. Read the full interview at: http://www.countygreen.ca/ #greenarchitecture #Press #Sustainable #Sustainablearchitecture #FifthTownCheese #Fift

Construction has started on the proposed Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Factory (http://www.fifthtown.ca/) in Prince Edward County Ontario. The contract was awarded to K. Knudsen Construction of Belleville ON. The cheese factory has been designed to the LEED Platinum criteria, and promises to the be 'greenest' industrial facility in Canada. The building incorporates several green features including a ground source heat pump, a rain water collection cistern, a large amount of recla

The schematic design for Chuckery House in Prince Edward County is underway. The four-storey, 2300 sf house is located on a steep triangular lot overlooking the Bay of Quinte to the north and Lake on the Mountain to the south. The wood and corrugated metal tower is anchored to the deep limestone cliffs forming the slopes of the hill. This allows the occupants to experience a different view from every floor, sometimes looking down onto the forest canopy while at other times lo