News

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.

Waterloo Architecture alumna (1988) Alison Brooks, also the AJ Women Architect of the Year 2013, was named 'supreme winner' for the Newhall Be 85 unit housing scheme in Harlow, Essex. Congratulations Alison!

Warmest congratulations to Gabriella den Elzen and James Clarke-Hicks, who won the Award of Excellence in the Steel Structures Education Foundation (SSEF) Student Design Competition called "Pop Up."  Congratulations to Jim Shi and Logan Steele who won the Award of Merit.

Mark Cichy and Terri Meyer-Boake were the supervisors; the project was a required submission for Arch 113 and Arch 173.

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Directorship, School of Architecture

With great pleasure I announce that Dr. Ila Berman has accepted the position of O'Donovan Director of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Dr. Berman will take up the position in January 2014. She will become a regular faculty member, tenured at the rank of Full Professor in September 2013 starting with a non-teaching term that will allow her to complete several research and design projects before she takes up her administrative tasks.

The most prestigious design awards in the field of branding and marketing are the D&AD Awards in London, England. This year's Best of the Year in the Branding category of the student awards is Waterloo Architecture student Sam Vickars.

Local filmmaker James Anthony Usas was recognized with a Gold Remi for Experimental Drama for his film House of the Gathering, based on the history of Kitchener, starting from when the city was known as Berlin. The film was recognized by the 2013 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, based in Houston.