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The lost autumn interior
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

MArch candidate Chanel Dehond to receive ASAI Student Award of Merit

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.

LIFT House rendering
Friday, March 14, 2014

Master's thesis garners global attention

Rendering of LIFT House model

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.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Architecture students win first prize in SuperSkyscrapers competition

winnning bamboo skyscraper rendering

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."

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Architecture students win the Norman Esch Enterprise Co-op Award

Suen and Cheng hold their large cheque for $4000Congratulations 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.

Friday, November 15, 2013

Philip Beesley and his team in Seoul, South Korea

Philip Beesley and his team including Waterloo Architecture students and graduates: Andrea Ling, Rob Gorbet, Taehyung Kim, Connor O’Grady, Sheida Shahi, May Wu, will soon return from a successful installation project in Seoul, South Korea. The installation entitled "Epiphyte Chamber" was on display as a part of the opening of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s new Seoul branch.  South Korean President Park Geun-hye was in attendance at the opening on November 13, and received a personal tour from Beesley of his installation.