THESIS: Geographies of Urban Filth
Liyang Zhang‘s master’s thesis Geographies of Urban Filth rethinks the spatial and social constructs of dirt and cleanliness through an intervention at the North Toronto Wastewater Treatment Plant. (more…)
Nuit Blanche 2018: A Critique
Nuit Blanche 2018 came and went without much splendor. (more…)
STUDENT WORK / Converse / 1B Studio
Cian Hrabi’s 1B project in Toronto’s Junction aims to facilitate unplanned conversations between people who may not have otherwise crossed paths. (more…)
Nuit Blanche: Passage by smjilk
Check out Passage at Nuit Blanche 2018 this weekend! (more…)
STUDENT WORK / Ground Control / 3A Studio
As part of the 3A studio, Madeleine designed the Health Sciences Centre to explore ideas of life and death. (more…)
STUDENT WORK / A Suburban Urbanity / 3A Studio
In her 3A studio project, Jing asks: how can we capitalize on the in-between, proximities, and energies of spaces? (more…)
City Guide: Journey to Flavour Town (aka Toronto)
To eat or not to eat? Dear beloved foodies, look no further than a GO transit ticket to find delicious treasures from across the world. Toronto, a city filled with hipsters, hype beasts and ripped jeans. Not that different from Cambridge but with better food. (more…)
What Makes a Space a Place?
What Makes a Space a Place? Waterloo School of Architecture July 4 – 26, 2017 Led by Jonathan Friedman of PARTISANS Architects, a team of Waterloo Architecture students will create a site-specific built installation on the outdoor plaza at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramics. Coinciding with Waterloo Architecture’s 50th anniversary, visitors will be invited to embellish colourful benches with mosaic tile as part of a month-long communal art-making activation exploring the scarcity of meaningful public...
THESIS: The Reflexive Urban Fabric: The Re-imagining of Toronto’s Rail Corridor
The Reflexive Urban Fabric The Re-Imagining of Toronto’s Urban Rail Corridor Andrew Cole The thesis The Reflexive Urban Fabric: The Re-imagining of Toronto’s Rail Corridor is concerned with architecture’s role in shaping infrastructural systems into designed composite networks that respond to local, social, and ecological conditions. Infrastructural systems present a dichotomy between the technical and cultural influences that are inseparable from urban planning. They have been given technical priority over natural and urban landscapes for an agenda of higher mono-focused productivity, while also shaping urban fabrics...
THESIS: Arguments in the Streets Became More Frequent
In his thesis, Pawel Bednarek uses Toronto as a subject to develop an anarchist spatial practice that challenges architecture’s complicity in the face of society’s authoritarian and hierarchical structures. He will defend his thesis titled ‘Arguments in the Streets Became More Frequent’ on Wednesday September 14th at 11:30am at the BRIDGE Centre for Architecture+Design.