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Recognizing Innovative Wood Design in North America 2011 Wood Design Award Winners Announced Ottawa, ON, January 13th, 2012 – The Wood Design & Building magazine is pleased to announce the award recipients for the prestigious 2011 North American Awards Program. Sixteen projects were hand selected from over one-hundred entries by an esteemed jury panel: Andrew Frontini from Perkins+Will, James Cutler from Cutler Anderson and Robert Hull from Miller Hull.

Professor Terri Meyer Boake has just published a new text titled "Understanding Steel Design: An Architectural Design Manual" through Birkhauser of Switzerland. The book takes a "no numbers" approach to integrating advanced steel systems into architectural design.

The School extends enthusiastic congratulations to Philip Beesley and his team of collaborators on the recent announcement that Hylozoic Ground has been named one of five global finalists in the Urban Design category in the 2011 Katerva Awards for excellent ideas and initiatives in sustainability.

A prize winner in each of the ten categories will be announced in October. A grand prize winner will then be selected from among the category winners and announced as the best new sustainability effort of the year.

Saturday's Waterloo Region Record contained an article on the award winning work of Professor Lola Sheppard. Called the Arctic Food Network, the project merges traditional practices with new technologies that are attractive to a youthful population.

Read the article:

Architects’ plan could revive Inuit hunting and fishing traditions

Congratulations are due once again to Lola Sheppard and Mason White for having won the 2011 Holcim Gold Award for their project entitled Regional
food-gathering nodes and logistics network, Iqaluit, NU, Canada.

The Holcim Awards program honours sustainable construction projects and visions from North America.

One Gold Award was given. It carries a $100,000 prize.

The First Annual Azure Awards included projects in a student category: A+ Award for Best Student Project. The winner was Alex's Josephson's Master's Thesis titled "Temporary Mosque". The People's Choice Award in the category was given to Kat Kovalcik for her 1B Design Studio project from Winter 2010 titled "Visions of Settlement - A Residence for Haiti".

First year students enrolled made a clean sweep of the 10th Annual SSEF Student Design Competition with the theme Biomimicry.

Award of Excellence - Justin Lai and Charles Ye

Tara Keens-Douglas has been named a winner in the ACSA Archive 100 Beauty Pageant Competition.