Tickets for the Stop’s Night Market go on sale Wednesday, May 22nd, at noon. The annual event, now in its sophomore year, gathers more than 50 Toronto chefs over two nights for an all-you-can-eat-and-drink festival in support of The Stop Community Food Centre. As if the gourmet street fare wasn’t reason enough to go, vendors will be set up with a new crop of food carts, all designed for this year’s event. Waterloo Architecture students and...
At the Waterloo School of Architecture, the art of making is integral. Model-making and fabrication is a component of every studio course, often with a required final model. For some students, their interest has veered further towards the craft component of architecture. We wanted to interview these students to ask them—how can craft influence the design process? For part three of this series, we interviewed Melody Chen, one of our 3A students who is a...
Looking for creative inspiration? Come out to the Pecha Kucha this Saturday, July 26th, @ 7pm in the Bridge Pop-Up space at 60 Main Street. Pecha Kucha: Creative Projects will be the restart of the Waterloo Region Chapter that will now be hosted by the University of Waterloo Graduate Student Association (GSA). The Society of Waterloo Architecture Graduates (SWAG) is organizing this week’s event. Everyone is welcome to attend. Doors will open at 7pm and there will...
For those of you who do not already know this… F_RMlab [Digital Research and Media] is a grad student initiative to promote digital technology and computational discourse in architecture at our school. F_RMlab’s current initiatives and extended goals exist in the areas of software and scripting; physical computing and interactive systems; digital fabrication; environmental simulation; and the ACADIA Adaptive Architectures conference of 2013. We would like to open the doors for communication between our initiatives, the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, as well...
Berlin is unlike many cities in Europe where there is a dominant culture with a dominant appearance. The beauty of Berlin arises from its patchwork of architecture, many being remnants of war, that Berliners have taken agency over. The city is an emblem of post-unification; people mingle, meet, dance, cross borders, cross boundaries, and ultimately find their most authentic, free self. If this freedom of identity is something you strive for, this is the city...
As we all know, COVID caused a ripple in many of our lives. In the spring of 2020, the 3A class’ job search was abruptly impacted by COVID as a number of co-op positions fell through. Even so, throughout the summer, we saw our friends posting cool things on their instagrams! In this episode of Keeping up with the Kovids, 3B students Dani and Razmig decided to dig up some insider info as to what...
New York is a city in constant motion, one that has crumbled and reinvented itself over again and again over the last few centuries. Today, it’s a shining vision of steel, glass and lights, stretching higher and higher upwards, while still holding onto its gritty foundation. While the Big Apple is a world of possibilities, rich with sights and sounds, stories and cultures, this article is a small log detailing the experiences of a few...
By Leela Keshav and Michelle Li For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer, it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are...
Nuit Blanche 2018 came and went without much splendor. (more…)
Cian Hrabi’s 1B project in Toronto’s Junction aims to facilitate unplanned conversations between people who may not have otherwise crossed paths. (more…)