Recognition

Awards / Publication / Exhibitions

Awards

  1. 2026 St. John’s Applause Award in Innovative Housing Design – Harvey House
  2. 2026 Architizer A+ Awards Finalist – Fluvarium Lilypad Childcare 
  3. 2026 Architizer A+ Awards Finalist – Harvey House
  4. 2024 Atlantic Architectural Design Excellence Awards (AADEA), Award of Merit – O’Brien Farm
  5. 2023 Newfoundland and Labrador Lieutenant Governor’s Awards of Excellence in Architecture – Halfway Hill House
  6. 2023 Newfoundland and Labrador Lieutenant Governor’s Awards of Excellence in Architecture – O’Brien Farm 
  7. 2022 Atlantic Architectural Design Excellence Award of Merit: Our Lady of the Snows Church
  8. 2022 Atlantic Provinces Association of Landscape Architects Award of Excellence: First Light Residential School Survivors Memorial Garden in collaboration with Mills & Wright Landscape Architecture, Inuit Elders and Residential School Survivors
  9. 2022 City of St. John’s Applause Awards-Heritage Award: Walsh’s Square
  10. 2020 Lieutenant Govenor’s Award of Excellence in Architecture: Our Lady of the Snows Church
  11. 2020 Lieutenant Govenor’s Award of Merit in Architecture: St. Thomas Community Centre
  12. 2019 Atlantic Woodworks! Award: St. Thomas Community Centre
  13. 2016 Atlantic Woodworks! Award: Cobb’s Pond Park Rotary Building
  14. 2016 Pearl Award for Excellence in Urban Design: Tucker Acura

 

Publications / Exhibitions

The “Wild” East: Chris Woodford Establishes Booming Practice in his Home Province
The Martime Edit, December 2020
Halfway Hill House by Woodford Sheppard Architecture*
Nuvo Magazine, October 2020
IDES Vancouver, Canadian by Nature Exhibition, 2018*
Project Featured by WSA:
Our Lady of the Snows Church, Sheshatshiu Labrador
Adapting Heritage Conference, 2017*
Digitally fabricated sculptural installation
Here’s a Look at Some of Our Favourite Practices From Each Province and Territory*
Archinect, June 2017
Canadian Wood Council, 2016*
Celebrating Excellence in Wood Architecture
Wood Design Awards Book – Cobb’s Pond
Rotary Park Building
20+ Change Exhibition, Next Generation*
Twenty + Change presents the next generation of emerging practices who are pushing boundaries – be it to engage the public realm in meaningful ways, posit new models for collective living and urban infill, advance the role of sustainability and vernacular craft, or explore opportunities for speculative and self-initiated commission
2 Projects Featured by WSA:
1. Our Lady of the Snows Church, Sheshatshiu Labrador
2. Salvation Army Citadel, Triton
* Written about Woodford Sheppard Architecture

Creative Collide: Children’s Spaces – Canadian Interiors

Feature on Fluvarium Lilypad Childcare Centre

Fluvarium Lilypad Childcare Centre by Woodford Architecture – Architizer

Finalist A+Awards, Institutional – Kindergartens, 2026

Harvey House by Woodford Architecture – Architizer

Finalist A+Awards, Concepts – architecture for good, 2026

Bennett’s Road House by Woodford Architecture – Architizer

Feature on Bennett’s Road House, 2026

Winter Avenue Residence by Woodford Architecture – Architizer

Feature on Winter Avenue Residence, 2026

Bennetts Road House, Newfoundland and Labrador – e-architect

Feature on Bennetts Road House, 2026

Bogarts Jewelers, Newfoundland and Labrador – e-architect

Feature on Bogarts Jewelers, 2026

Recipients of 2024 Atlantic Architectural Design Excellence Awards announced

Canadian Architect, June 2024

Halfway Hill House / Woodford Architecture

Home World Design, 2021
Celebrating Excellence in Wood Architecture, 2019/2020*
Canadian Wood Council Wood Design Awards Book
Featured Project: St. Thomas Community Centre
A Faith Observed: Our Lady of the Snows, Sheshatshiu, Labrador*
Canadian Architect, June 2020
Design Across Scales for Rural Newfoundland: Sustaining Rural Communities through Design Innovation
Exhibition, Memorial University – Signal Hill Campus
Symposium & Panel Discussion, October 1, 2019
Sixty7 Architecture Road, “Leveraging a Tidal Change”*
Online article
Canada 150:  30 Architecture Firms Breaking New Ground*
Azure Magazine, June 30 2017 (online)
Home and Cabin Magazine, Spring 2016*
Feature on Eastport Residence
Who Will Build Canada’s Future?*
Globe and Mail, December 2015
Building On the Rock*
Canadian Architect, March 2015