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Waterloo Architecture student Simon McKenzie has been selected to receive the Ian Stantiall Juror Award from the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI).

McKenzie's work, "Cultural Palaestra" was chosen from a field of seventy-eight entries from three countries.  He joins University of Waterloo MArch student Chanel Dehond as one of the top seven award winners.

The award will be given as a part of ASAI's twenty-ninth annual Architecture in Perspective exhibition, a preeminent exhibition of architectural illustration.

MArch candidate Chanel Dehond has been selected to receive a Student Award of Merit from the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI).

The award will be given as a part of ASAI's twenty-ninth annual Architecture in Perspective exhibition, a preeminent exhibition of architectural illustration.

Dehond's work, "The Lost: A Design for a Day Spa" was named
one of the top seven awards, chosen from a field of seventy-eight entries from three countries.

Waterloo Architecture graduate Prithula Prosun's master thesis was recently featured in O Globo, one of the largest newspapers in Brazil.

Prosun's 2011 thesis, The LIFT House (Low-Income Floodproof Technology) was originally designed and constructed in Dhaka, Bangladesh as a solution for sustainable housing for low-income communities in flood-prone areas.

Dialogues with the Transformative City exhibition (installation), at Design at Riverside Gallery, 2013. Photo by Peter Ross.

The University of Waterloo School of Architecture is featured in the February 2014 edition of Domus magazine.

The international architecture and design magazine is currently running a series of articles on the top schools of architecture around the world.

Congratulations to University of Waterloo Architecture students Di Wang, Alexandru Vilcu, and Richard Mui who recently won first place in the international SuperSkyscrapers contest.

The team won the Bamboo Skyscraper - Singapore competition. Jurors called their design "critical, distinctive, high-quality, and innovative."

Congratulations to Architecture students Victoria Suen and Carrie Cheng. They were one of two teams to be awarded the Norman Esch Enterprise Co-op Award on January 13, 2014. The award is open to any startup with at least one founder from the Faculty of Engineering.

Suen and Cheng won the $4000 dollar award for their startup called Rocket.