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Shortlisted Entries in Legacy Art Project for Toronto’s Waterfront Revealed

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A project built in 1984 by Diamond Schmidt Architects, with Dereck Revington as one of five lead Architects, is recognized by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and Heritage Canada The National Trust with a Prix du XXe siècle. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian architecture of 20th century design.

Gentrification Tax Action (Jane Hutton, Adrian Blackwell, Sameer Farooq, Kika Thorne) included in Now Magazine’s Ten Best Art Shows of 2018

The exhibition/reception celebrates the 40th Waterloo Architecture Rome Class and displays the work done this term to the members of the class and guests, in particular students from Italian and American Universities. The Studio this year returned to the central archaeological area exploring the potential to ‘open’ a neglected and apparently forgotten part of this immense green space. The site, on the west side of the Caelian Hill (Celio) overlooks the Colosseum and sits opposite the Palatine.

In an essay published in the Canadian Art online edition, “Experiments in Collective Form”, two Toronto artists, Kika Thorne and Adrian Blackwell, reflect on the similarities between Harris’ "common sense revolution” in the 1990s and Doug Ford’s government of today.

Waterloo Architecture alumni Aidan Mitchelmore, Eveline Lam and Kathryn Holbrook-Smith currently have an exhibit, Elucidating Process, in the Azrieli School of Architecture gallery at Carleton University.

Assistant Professor David Correa's recently completed wood pavilion, a collaboration between the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia was featured on Dezeen. 

Bryce Clayton and James Banks have won the only two student work awards at the RAIC/IRAC National Urban Design Competition. Bryce won a Medal, and James, a Certificate of Honour.

Jane Hutton will introduce the book Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial, (co-edited with Daniel Ibañez and Kiel Moe, Actar, 2018) at the Wood at Work 2018 Conference at the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty, on Friday October 26.