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Hong Kong-trained architect wins design competition for

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WINNIPEG ART GALLERY

MR.

R. GUSTAVO DA ROZA, a 34-year old Winnipeg architect who holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Hong Kong, has been named first prize winner of the Winnipeg Art Gal- lery's architectural competition.

As winner of the competition, he re- ceives a cheque for C$10,000 as first payment of his commission for the new gallery. His design was describ- ed by the panel of judges as "one of the finest, if not the greatest, trian- gular building design yet achieved."

Mr. G. da Roza

The competition, approved by the Royal Architectural Institute of Cana- Ja, opened on June 6, 1967, when invitations were mailed to more than 2,800 architects living in or licensed to practice in Canada. A complete Conduct of Competition and Design programme was sent out on July 1. and when entries closed on August 1. 1967 there were 476 applications.

Some 109 final entries were con- sidered by the panel of five judges which comprised: Professor Ralph Rapson, Head of the School of År- chitecture, University of Minnesota: Mr. John Parkin and Mr. Charles E. Pratt, both well-known Canadian ar- chitects: Mr. Harvard Arnason. museum administrator and art his- torian for the Solomon R. Guggen- heim Museum in New York; and Harry Weese, architect of Chicago.

The panel's selection was: First prize

Gustavo da Roza; second prize (C$6,000) Gordon S. Adam- son and Associates, Toronto; and third prize (C$3,000)

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and Associates and Joseph Brunon. Winnipeg.

First prize winner, Mr. da Roza, was born in Hong Kong in 1933 of Portuguese parents and was educated in Macao as a Portuguese citizen. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1955 with the degree of Bachelor of Architecture with first class honours and later that year worked as assistant architect to the late R. Gordon Brown, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture,

He started his own practice in Hong Kong in 1956, when he also joined the teaching staff at the University of Hong Kong School of Architecture.

In 1958 he joined the Faculty of

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Architecture at the University of Cali- fornia, emmigrating two years later to Canada to join the Faculty at the University of Manitoba.

Now a member of the Manitoba Association of Architects and the Royal Architectural Institute of Cana- da, Mr. Da Roza is at present Asso- ciate Professor of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, while main- taining a private practice in Winnipeg.

Mr. da Roza's prize winning de- signs for the triangular plot at Mem- orial Boulevard are illustrated on these pages. Construction of the new gallery is expected to be completed in time for an official opening during 1970, Manitoba's Centennial Year.

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