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Monday, July 20, 2015

Terri Meyer Boake Wins First Skyscraper Center Editorial Board Contest

The Skyscraper Center, CTBUH’s (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) comprehensive tall building database, is stewarded by an important editorial board. These board members make invaluable contributions of information and images to enrich the database, and assist with special research projects. The most active member of The Skyscraper Center Editorial Board receives an all-expenses-paid trip to the CTBUH Conference.

Monday, July 13, 2015

Dereck Revington featured on CBC radio's Cross Country Checkup

Dereck Revington was a guest on CBC Radio's Cross Country Checkup on July 5, 2015.

The question was, What makes a good monument and praise-worthy public art?​ in response to the plans for Cape Breton's Mother Canada statue and Ottawa's Memorial to the victims of communism. Dereck also talks about the Luminous Veil, and is featured beginning at 0:28 minutes. 

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Lateral Office wins Honourable Mention

Lateral Office (Lola Sheppard, UW, and Mason White, UofT) received an honourable mention in the Cool Schools competition, working with University of Waterloo architecture students Jack Lipson and Kate Holbrook Smith. 

The COOLschool design competition called for proposals for a school building which will act as a safe, comfortable, learning environment for 100 pupils withstanding the extreme temperatures in Mongolia. 

Congratulations to Lateral Office!

Monday, July 6, 2015

Congratulations to SSEF competition winners!

The Steel Structures Education Foundation (SSEF) held it's annual Design Competition and Waterloo Architecture students dominated! This year's theme was 'recycle - recycler' :

Friday, June 19, 2015

Nada Nafeh, M.Arch candidate, launches initiative and website in Cairo

Nada Nafeh, M.Arch candidate launched the [in]formal Pattern Language initiative and the website by hosting a Talk entitled "Towards an [in]formal Pattern Language" at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on June 3rd, 2015. The Talk, co-organized by the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo and AUC hosted the following Speakers: Nada Nafeh, Magda Mostafa, Associate Professor at The American University in Cairo and Omar Nagati, Beth Stryker and Hanaa Gad from CLUSTER.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Velocity Company DraftingSPACE Acquired By BuildDirect

Former Waterloo Architecture students Beth Nenniger and Laura Austin have sold their first company, DraftingSPACE, to Vancouver-based BuildDirect.
 

DraftingSPACE enables homeowners to design their own renovation projects. BuildDirect has an wide-reaching distribution network for renovation materials. It’s the perfect partnership and we are super excited to have been offered a seat on BuildDirect’s rocketship.

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Magdalena Milosz presents papers at annual SSAC Conference

Magdalena Milosz presented two papers based on her thesis research at
the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada's (SSAC) annual
conference in Annapolis Royal, NS, held May 27-30.
Magdalena completed her Master of Architecture in January 2015, entitled "Don’t Let Fear Take Over": The Space and Memory of Indian Residential Schools.