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nourish: Cambridge Farmers’ Market

September 24, 2013

Who doesn’t love food? Who doesn’t love FRESH food? Who doesn’t love LOCAL, FRESH food? Who doesn’t love DELICIOUS, LOCAL, FRESH food? No one, that’s who. Get your sleep-deprived butts out of bed on Wednesday and Saturday mornings for the best selection of fresh fruits & vegetables (hand-picked, some organic, come from a 100km radius of the market), farm fresh eggs, meats, cold cuts, cheeses, European breads, jellies, jams, honey, coffee, pastries, and those cute knitted slippers with the pom-poms....

[SWAG] September Meeting Minutes

September 19, 2013

Meeting September.2013 2013.09.12 6:00PM Ward Room Meeting Minutes In attendance: Connor O’Grady, Mark Tam, Caitlin Perry, Vikkie Chen, Mark Zupan, Miriam Ho, Zak Fish, Stephen Wenzel, Srinidhi Sridhar, Alireza Takook 1. Third Thursday Salon CO, MT casual setting for graduate to talk about their thesis issues and get feedback the first one that was held in August was at Jessica’s house Title change ideas: Third Thursday Thoughts? Mark Zupan will host first meeting this...

BRIDGE Meeting Friday

September 18, 2013

The first BRIDGE meeting of the term will be this FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20th. If you are interested in contributing to this very fine website OR If you would like to help develop the student run gallery Please meet at the gallery, 40 Main St, at 1:00. We are going to tour the space (currently in the midst of renovations), set some goals for the upcoming term, and discuss ways to get involved! If...

MasterWorks 2013 – September 17th

September 15, 2013

MasterWorks 2013: Cambridge Galleries, Design at Riverside Exhibition: September 17 – October 6 Opening: Tuesday, September 17, 6:30pm MasterWorks 2013 is an annual juried exhibition selected from proposals for solo and/or group exhibitions by graduates of the Masters of Architecture program at the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture. Vernacular and Anonymous Architecture: Beijing Courtyards & Toronto Chinatown Vernacular architecture is a form of building fabric, indigenous to a specific place that evolves over generations...

Re-visioning Toronto Island Airport at Urban Space Gallery – September 17th

September 15, 2013

All are welcome to attend the opening of the exhibit “Re-visioning Toronto Island Airport” at Urban Space Gallery 401 Richmond St. West Toronto on September 17 from 6 to 8pm. The projects were produced in the Architectural Instincts and Imagination 3B option studio between 2009 and 2012 and will run from September 17 to October 25. The exhibition coincides with the Toronto city council vote on whether or not to extend the Billy Bishop Airport runways. Hope...

ACADIA 2013: Adaptive Architecture Conference

September 13, 2013

The annual ACADIA (Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture) conference is coming to Cambridge and will be held at our school this year. In anticipation of this international event, the ACADIA 2013 Management Team, F_RMlab and Graduate Research Elective: ARCH 684 will feature a series of posts on Bridge to introduce the keynotes and presenters at the conference. We’d like to introduce an overview of the conference to start and we hope you are just...

nourish: Papou’s Place Subs

September 12, 2013

Let’s face it, those long, nutrient-draining studio hours require some heavy-duty replenishment, and your go-to five dollar foot-long just doesn’t seem to cut it. It’s time we move on to greater sandwich-artistry depths—one fostered by over 15-years of family-owned experience, serving up bigger and better things—meatier things, that is. Papou’s Place offers a wide selection of traditional submarine sandwiches, pitas, and wraps. Choose from the classic assorted, to thick cut steak specially seasoned with in-house sautéed...

September 2013 Meeting

September 11, 2013

Hello Grads! SWAG will be holding its Monthly Meeting for September 2013 on Thursday, September 12th, 2013 in the Ward Room at 6:00pm. Many items will be discussed including Peer/Beer reviews, Pecha Kucha, Grad workshops etc. Nominations for SWAG positions will also be held, so please come out if you’re interested in getting involved. Refreshments will also be provided. You can view the work-in-progress agenda here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NXLIUiLkXXBcsYktz_NzsheTft-CTJ9wzd4kws2hYmw/edit?usp=sharing The Google Doc is opened up for Editing so...

Photobooth: Architecture Orientation Week 2013

September 11, 2013

If you ask me, the final days of Waterloo Architecture O-Week 2013 were just precious. SO MUCH LOVE! No seriously, the incoming first years showed so much enthusiasm, making them super fun to photograph. Bridge, meet a few of our newbies! (We dressed them up as architects… creative, right?) Q: Where are you from? Q: Why did you choose architecture? Q: What are you most looking forward...

ROMA: Waterloo Architecture Rome Show 2013

September 9, 2013

For one night the Grand House was revived, once again filled with raucous architecture students as we revisited a remarkable four months spent in Rome. All the furniture was pushed aside to to make room for the work of the graduating class of 2013. The walls of the living room were covered in a diverse range of projects focusing on the developing post-industrial neighbourhood of Ostiense in Rome. Studio desk lamps illuminated the suspended proposals...

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