A bit late, but worth sharing; the end of March 2013 brought Stantec Architects, and one of their current clients, Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH), to the Waterloo School of Architecture for a full-day design charrette with a number of undergraduate students. The focus lay in developing key public spaces and in enhancing the patient, staff, and visitor experience to the renovation and addition of the existing hospital building in Cambridge. Following a brief presentation by...
‘Unlocking the Aerial Perspective’ – an Uncovered Lecture by David Schellingerhoudt Thursday, July 4th @ 12:30pm in the MAIN LECTURE HALL I plan to give a two part presentation about my master’s thesis project ‘hack: reclaiming the commons’, focusing on the power of aerial perspective, its historic control and the implications for its universal accessibility – made possible by inexpensive remote control devices. Then I would like to offer a show and tell, as an introduction to...
ABSTRACT by Shannon Ross During the 1960s large trenched expressways were introduced into our urban centres to accommodate the booming vehicular traffic. These expressways were built on an enormous scale, often traversing entire cities. Unfortunately, some neighbourhoods have been divided and now share a noxious physical boundary. The Vine Street Expressway in Philadelphia, the Cross Bronx Expressway in New York and the Décarie Expressway in Montreal are examples of such thoroughfares. They are noisy, polluted...
Hello Fellow Grads, This invitation is being made to let all current graduate students know that there will be an open meeting with the OCGS Visiting Team at 3:00 pm, Wednesday, June 26, 2013 in the University of Waterloo School of Architecture Ward Room. This meeting will last for a duration of 90 minutes. The team is here on behalf of the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies to ensure that the Master of Architecture program...
June 18th and 19th, The Stop Community Food Centre hosted their second annual Stop Night Market in the Honest Ed’s alleyway in Toronto, inviting over 50 Toronto chefs as well as showcasing the food cart designs of Waterloo Architecture students and alumni. A call for proposals back in February got the juices flowing, and local designers submitted one-panel proposals for this year’s food carts. 36 designs were chosen, 16 of which belonged to teams...
Please join members of the Architecture Community Garden for two events this week: Summer Solstice Picnic Friday, June 21 at 5:30 pm | Meet at the Garden Please join us as we celebrate landscape, community, and local food production, beginning with a tour of the Architecture Community Garden. From there we will walk or bike along the Grand Trunk Trail to the Springbank Community Gardens at rare Charitable Research Reserve (681 Blair Road). Please bring...
On June 18th and 19th, The Stop Community Food Centre will be hosting their second annual Stop Night Market in the Honest Ed’s alleyway in Toronto, inviting over 50 Toronto chefs as well as showcasing the food cart designs of Waterloo Architecture students and alumni. A call for proposals back in February got the juices flowing, and local designers submitted one-panel proposals for this year’s food carts. 36 designs were chosen, 16 of which...
I recently had the pleasure of meeting up with the amazing Timea Jakab, who is a Waterloo Architecture alumna and current adjunct professor at our school. We met in Toronto at University and Adelaide, over green tea and avocado-on-toast, where we discussed her current role as a member of the design committee in this year’s Stop’s Night Market. Timea is currently self-employed, giving her the flexibility she needs to take on an integral role...
On June 18th and 19th, The Stop Community Food Centre will be hosting their second annual Stop NightMarket in the Honest Ed’s alleyway in Toronto, inviting over 50 Toronto chefs as well as showcasing the food cart designs of Waterloo Architecture students and alumni. A call for proposals back in February got the juices flowing, and local designers submitted one-panel proposals for this year’s food carts. 36 designs were chosen, 16 of which belonged to...
I rode my bike through Toronto, past the architecture ghetto, over the Don Valley to the east side of the city to office of Sustainable.TO. It was founded less than five years ago by Paul Dowsett, a Waterloo Architecture alumni, and is housed in an old bank on Queen Street East. I entered the office to find him and his team immersed in a design charrette, discussing their proposal for redevelopment of the Far Rockaways....
