The following is excerpted from the Competition Jury remarks: 

“We are happy to announce engineering students Daniel Kotwinski and Matthew Pagano, and architecture students Danielle Berwick and Chris Wanless as the winners of the 2011 Yolles Scholarship.
 
All three of us felt that this group really exemplified what the dialogue between Architect and Engineer should be:  inventive, productive, and more than the sum of its parts.  The result was an incredibly attractive project that felt resolved and appropriate, but not mundane.
 
Overall, the level of the work this year was astounding and we had a really difficult time choosing the winner.”
 
Nebojsa Erakovic   Halcrow Yolles
Daniel Hambleton   Halcrow Yolles
Kael Opie   Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg

The scholarship was awarded by an independent Jury review of project work from the Winter 2011 Option Studio cross listed in the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering, "Swimming Diving Walking on Water," a proposal for an urban natatorium in the Chrisite Pits Park in central Toronto.

The inspiration for the studio comes through the conviction that a unique expression in built form emerges from the fully collaborative relationship between an architect and an engineer.  The resultant work arises from a convergence of concerns beyond style, from the spatial to the perceptual, and the material to the structural.  The collaborative nature of the studio reflects a model of practice, which has produced some of the most significant and innovative work in recent years and originates with Morden Yolles’ commitment to the understanding between the engineering and architectural professions. 
 
Studio Professors:
Nebojsa Ojdrovic   Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
David Lieberman   John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design