For four months, Ella den Elzen worked as a docent in the Canadian Pavilion representing the Arctic Adaptation exhibition at the Venice Biennale and came to know the labyrinthine city. Her Co-op City Guide for Venice outlines everything from great museums to architectural highlights, short trips outside the city and ideal spots for an evening drink.

Ella den Elzen reflects on her experience during her exchange at Czech Technical University in Prague, sharing insights into what it means to leave UWSA for a term and studying abroad.

The Rome Program is fundamental to the education of students at Waterloo Architecture. Often, however, work that is produced by the students in Rome is unable to be seen by the rest of the UWSA community until the final Rome Show. We want to showcase the interesting projects of the current Rome Studio class.

UWSA students are always looking for new good eats- especially cheap good eats. Well look no further than the new sausage truck parked in the Southworks parking lot. Well, it’s not actually a truck, more of a cart really. Owner and sausage maker, Rob Marriott, tells me how he became uninspired and worn out at […]

Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at the UWSA. It’s been a while since we’ve had a studio soundtrack post. But since we’re all getting ramped up for final deadlines we may as well add some new music to our playlists. This week’s songs are courtesy of Mr. Alex Willms. “These are […]

On Thursday, April 11, and Friday, April 12, final reviews were held for the 1B Class. The project brief called for students to design a residential loft building for one of three different sites in downtown Toronto. The variety in sizes and locations of the sites called for very different design solutions, as indicated by […]

On Friday, April 5th, several students met with David Gibson, the developer of the gallery space. He is incredibly interested in vitalizing the downtown, and in recreating old spaces - giving them new life with new activities. He also wants to demonstrate that private development and public institutions can work together productively to create change. […]

Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at the UWSA. These tunes are great—sometimes white noise is even better. With good headphones it can sound like you are in a giant vacuum, but hey! when everyone else is on some crazy 3 a.m. caffeine bender, that’s not necessarily a bad thing… If white […]

On February 25th a design pin-up was held to share ideas about redesigning the new BRIDGE Storefront gallery on Main Street. One of the common themes included concepts of flexible and transformable space. By using adaptable equipment and well-concealed storage space, students could easily transform BRIDGE from gallery to workspace. Adaptable equipment also could allow […]