Carol Phillips is pushing Canadian architecture and design into the future. In Ontario, she helped turn a bold sustainability brief into a building that actually teaches. As Partner-in-Charge on Limberlost Place at George Brown College, she led a design where performance isn’t hidden behind walls. From the mass-timber structure to the dual solar chimneys that drive natural ventilation, Limberlost isn’t just “low carbon” on paper. It’s a daily, lived example of architecture and engineering working in sync. A big part of that comes down to discipline early in design: the team committed to passive strategies first, then sized mechanical systems around what the building could do naturally. Carol kept the innovation ambitious but clear. Limberlost has become a national reference point for net-zero-ready, tall-timber education buildings, and the real win is that it’s replicable. Inside Moriyama Teshima Architects, it sparked a “Limberlost way” of working—start with passive moves, prove them with analysis, then build systems around them—and that mindset is showing up in new pursuits across the country.