Waterloo Region's Top 10 Buildings

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1. The Kaufman Building (1908)
   
2. The Mutual Life building on King and Union (1912)
   
3. Seagram Museum (1984)
   
4. The Davis Centre (1988)
   
5. Kitchener City Hall (1993)
   
6. Clay and Glass Gallery (1993)
   
7. Burt C. Matthews Hall Addition (1997)
   
8. Perimeter Institute (2004)
   
9. Bauer Lofts (2009)
   
10. CIGI  (2011)
    

I don't personally like the Davis Centre much but it was the first attempt at architecture this town had seen since the Mutual Life building in 1912, so it's in the list. The Bauer Lofts make it in account of the fact that it was the first residential highrise within the downtown core ever and also the first mixed use development approved in decades. It really marked a turnaround from the planning department which has yet to fully unfold (3 story height restriction on Uptown any one?)

Near misses:

• The Old Economical Building (16-20 Queen St. N.)
  
• Waterloo regional museum
  
• Quantum nanocentre
  
• The 42 
  
• The new courthouse
  
• Centre in the square
  
• The Kitchener Library
  
• The Laurelwood YMCA
  
• RIM Headquarters
  
• School of Architecture
  
• The Cambridge Mill
  
• Cambridge city hall