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McMinn + Janzen Studio Citation in the 2011 North American Wood Design Award Program
Recognizing Innovative Wood Design in North America 2011 Wood Design Award Winners Announced Ottawa, ON, January 13th, 2012 – The Wood Design & Building magazine is pleased to announce the award recipients for the prestigious 2011 North American Awards Program. Sixteen projects were hand selected from over one-hundred entries by an esteemed jury panel: Andrew Frontini from Perkins+Will, James Cutler from Cutler Anderson and Robert Hull from Miller Hull.
The caliber of entries was extremely high this year, making the selection process challenging for the jury who based their selection on considerations such as creativity, appropriate use of wood materials, ability to satisfy the client's building and site requirements and the overall aesthetic appeal for the use and application of wood. "Innovation is the forefront to opportunity," explains Etienne Lalonde, Vice-President of Market Development for the Canadian Wood Council. "The Wood Design Awards is an opportunity to recognize wood projects that inspire the way we think about wood and its applications."
The Wood Design & Building magazine, in partnership with the Canadian Wood Council, would like to thank everyone who participated in the 2011 North American Awards Program, and congratulate all of the winning projects.
CITATION
• Aquatic Centre at Hillcrest Park - Hughes Condon Marler Architects, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Bridge House - Joeb Moore + Partners Architects LLC, Greenwich, Connecticut
• CP Harbour House - McMinn + Janzen Studio, Toronto, Ontario
• École Mer et Montagne - McFarland Marceau Architects, Vancouver, British Columbia • Gathering Circle - Ryan Gorrie and Brook McIIroy, Toronto, Ontario
• Nevis Pool and Garden Pavilion - Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect, Washington, DC
• Two Hulls House - MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, Halifax, Nova Scotia
PRITHULA PROSUN - LIFT HOUSE - CANADIAN ARCHITECT AWARD
Canadian Architect announces the winners of the 2011 Awards of Excellence, given each year to architects and architectural graduates for buildings in the design stage. One of only two national award programs devoted exclusively to architecture, the Awards of Excellence have recognized significant building projects in Canada on an annual basis since 1968.
This year's winners have been selected by a jury consisting of Walter Francl of Walter Francl Architecture in Vancouver, Diarmuid Nash of Moriyama & Teshima Architects in Toronto, and Peter Sampson of Peter Sampson Architecture Studio in Winnipeg.
Awards are given for architectural design excellence. Jurors considered response to the program, site, geographical and social context, and evaluated physical organization, structure, materials and environmental features.
This year, two students were selected as award winners for their respective graduating thesis projects.
* Prithula Prosun of the University of Waterloo received an Award of Merit for the LIFT House
CUTMR CHAIR SELECTIONS ANNOUNCED
Each year since 2008, CUTMR curators travel to the University of Waterloo School of Architecture to select 3-5 chairs from the school’s innovative Chair Project, a course led by Professor Elizabeth English. Combining design and structural analysis, an idea (spurred by the students’ selection of a luminary to guide their project) and its physical manifestation, each of these transformable chairs are hand-made by third year architecture students working collaboratively with a classmate.
We are pleased to announce the chairs that will be in this year’s show:
A chair for Robert Service by Fraser Plaxton & Kunaal Mohan
Jackson Pollock chair by Piper Bernbaum & Meaghan Murray
Leon Trotsky chair by Gwendolyn Lovsted & Benjamin van Nostrand
Zimoun chair by Jaewoo Chon & Antariksh Tandon
LOLA SHEPPARD and MAYA PRZYBYLSKI WIN ACSA FACULTY AWARD
Next North: Architecture in Shifting Terrain, a project by Lola Sheppard and Maya Przybylski of Waterloo Architecture with Mason White of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto and Neeraj Bhatia a Waterloo Architecture graduate and former Adjunct faculty member has been awarded an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Faculty Design Award for 2011/2012.
The project was exhibited in January 2011 at Design at Riverside Gallery.
Juror Comments: This activated multimedia research project results in an immersive installation that oscillates between design research as speculative building and design research as informed graphic presentation. Operating at a variety of scales and platforms for research in both 2- and 3-dimensions, this multi-faceted project is presented as a sequence of shifting boundaries from local to global and from installation to inhabitation. Couched as spheres of ecological drift, the installation and its exhibited projects challenge the very nature of the necessity of static architectural approaches while exploring the ever-shifting terrains of Canada's northern territory.
Please see: http://acsa-arch.org/programs-events/awards/2011-12-awards-press-release
This is the second year in a row that Prof. Lola Sheppard has won an ACSA Faculty Design Award. The award will be presented at the ACSA 100th Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass. March 1-4, 2012.
TARA KEENS-DOUGLAS' THESIS WINS ACSA ARCHIVE AWARD
Tara Keens-Douglas has been named a winner in the ACSA ARCHIVE 100 Beauty Pageant Competition. Congratulations to Tara Keens-Douglas, Waterloo Architecture M.Arch graduate whose thesis, Ecstatic Spaces - Appropriation, has been named one of five winners in the Beauty Pageant Competition organized by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture as part of their 100th Anniversary celebrations. For details please see: http://www.archive100.org/users/m45/project/967 The project was also published in the Israeli edition of DOMUS (November 2011)
MCMINN AND JANZEN HOUSE PUBLISHED
Read the Globe and Mail online edition for a wonderful review of a recent house design by John McMinn and Melana Janzen. The project is situated in Mississauga, Ontario.
LOLA SHEPPARD PUBLISHED IN RECORD
Saturday's Waterloo Region Record contained an article on the award winning work of Professor Lola Sheppard. Called the Arctic Food Network, the project merges traditional practices with new technologies that are attractive to a youthful population.
TERRI MEYER BOAKE PUBLISHED BY BIRKHAUSER
Professor Terri Meyer Boake has just published a new text titled "Understanding Steel Design: An Architectural Design Manual" through Birkhauser of Switzerland. The book takes a "no numbers" approach to integrating advanced steel systems into architectural design. The book is available through Amazon.
LATERAL OFFICE WINS HOLCIM GOLD
Congratulations are due once again to Lola Sheppard and Mason White for having
won the 2011 Holcim Gold Award for their project entitled Regional
food-gathering nodes and logistics network, Iqaluit, NU, Canada.
The Holcim Awards program honours sustainable construction projects and visions
from North America.
One Gold Award was given. It carries a $100,000 prize.
Holcim Awards Gold to an infrastructure network for Inuit communities in Canada
A socio-architectural project to create regional food-gathering nodes and a
logistics network in Canada’s high arctic territory won the top prize for North
America of USD 100,000. The Arctic Food Network (AFN) secures mobility between
the scattered Inuit communities, allows a better distribution of local foods,
and serves as a series of bases for the reinforcement of traditional hunting.
The infrastructure project by Lateral Office / InfraNet Lab based in Toronto,
Ontario, and Princeton, New Jersey, also establishes new foundations for a
sustainable, more independent economy.
Mohsen Mostafavi, Head of jury and Dean of the Harvard University Graduate
School of Design, congratulated the project for creating a cohesive strategy
that responds to the landscape, climatic and site conditions. “The project
includes purposeful interventions which are integrated without any grand
gestures or expensive structures – but instead bridges between the traditions of
the Inuit and the expectations of the young generation. The project thereby
provides an opportunity to create an improved future, in terms of both economic
opportunity and a sustainable way of living,” he said.
for the full announcement please visit:
http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T1390/A11NAmediaENG.htm
HYLOZIOC GROUND IN KATERVA FINALS
The School extends enthusiastic congratulations to
Philip Beesley and his team of collaborators on the recent announcement that
Hylozoic Ground has been named one of five global finalists in the Urban Design
category in the 2011 Katerva Awards for excellent ideas and initiatives in
sustainability.
A prize winner in each of the ten categories will be announced in October. A
grand prize winner will then be selected from among the category winners and
announced as the best new sustainability effort of the year.
You can link to the awards page at:
http://katerva.org/nominees/katerva-awards-finalists-for-2011-announced/
There is also an article in Forbes magazine:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2011/09/19/the-worlds-best-sustainabi\
lity-ideas
TAMMY GABER WINS UIA RESEARCH AWARD
Tammy Gaber, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School and Professor of Cultural History, has been awarded a prize in association with the UIA.
The UIA Architectural Education Commission launched an international competition for research into creativity in architectural teaching. Organized by the Federation of Institutes of Korean Architects (FIKA), it was open to architects and graduate students of architecture and urban design. Awarded contributions will be presented during the UIA Congress in Tokyo, taking place from September 25-28, 2011.
First prize was awarded to Tammy Gaber and Ann Shafer of the American University in Cairo, Egypt for The Power of Suggestion: Modelling Traditional Methods to Teach Heritage Awareness in Architectural Education.
Tammy making her presentation in Tokyo
Tammy in an interview with Fumahiko Maki
For more information and to download the research paper, please click here.
FOURTH NATURES CONFERENCE PODCASTS RELEASED
Podcasts from the Fourth Natures Conference, held at the School of Architecture in February 2011 are now available for viewing. Visit this link.
STUDENTS WIN IN 1ST ANNUAL AZURE AWARDS 2011
Alex Josephson - Temporary Mosque
Kat Kovalcik - Visions of Settlement
The First Annual Azure Awards included projects in a student category: A+ Award for Best Student Project. The winner was Alex's Josephson's Master's Thesis titled "Temporary Mosque". The People's Choice Award in the category was given to Kat Kovalcik for her 1B Design Studio project from Winter 2010 titled "Visions of Settlement - A Residence for Haiti". More images of these projects can be viewed here.
SSEF 2011 STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION SWEEP!
First year students enrolled made a clean sweep of the 10th Annual SSEF Student Design Competition with the theme Biomimicry.
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - Justin Lai and Charles Ye
More images of the Award of Excellence and two Award of Merit projects can be viewed here.
BUOYANT LIGHT PROJECT WINS AGAIN!
Buoyant Light - Claire Lubell and Virginia Fernandez
This project has been given an Honourable Mention in the 2010 Velux Student Design Competition and has also won the LAMP Lighting Awards Competition in the Student Category. To see the full project panel, click here.
TERRI MEYER BOAKE APPEARANCE ON THE AGENDA
Associate Professor Terri Meyer Boake was invited to appear on the TVOntario series the Agenda. The show was one in a 5 part series forming a set of discussions on Energy related design issues coming from the Equinox Summit. The Summit was held at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo and was put together by the UW WISE committee. The conference brought experts from around the world to brainstorm on current energy issues and arrive at the means to provide sustainable energy to the year 2030.
LIVING CITIES PROCEEDINGS
April 25, 2011
The Living Cities Colloquium was held at the School in the Winter 2011 term as part of Professor Philip Beesley's Arch 392 Studio curriculum. The event brought many notable professionals to the School to share their experiences with the students and visitors. A book has been published from the event and is accessible through the Resource Positive web site.
Vision and Method for Regenerative Design
Edited by Philip Beesley
Copy Editor: Robin Paxton
Design and Production: Victoria Beltrano
LOLA SHEPPARD WINS ACSA FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD
March 6, 2011
2010-11 Faculty Design Award represents theoretical investigations advancing the general understanding of the discipline of architecture. The awards recognize exemplary built and unbuilt work that reflects upon practice and research.
Water Economies / Ecologie: Farming the Salton Sea
Lola Sheppard, University of Waterloo
Mason White, University of Toronto
2010-11 Faculty Design Honorable Mentions
ICELINK: OCCUPYING THE TEMPORAL SEAM
Lola Sheppard, University of Waterloo
Mason White, University of Toronto
M.ARCH. CANDIDATE MARIANNA DECOLA PRESENTS AT ACSA
March 6, 2011
M.Arch. Candidate Marianna DeCola was selected in a highly competitive peer reviewed full paper process to present her paper, "Shifting Infrastructures".
KIMCHI HO AND THE ECO CANADA INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
March 6, 2011
Waterloo Architecture BAS Graduate Kimchi Ho has received recognition through the Eco Canada Internship program to pursue enriched employment in sustainable architecture. The internship program is supporting her work for Whiting Design in Waterloo, Ontario. Graham Whiting, principle of the firm is also a UWSA graduate and has made a name for himself though his Sustainable practice.
BALLOON PROJECT COULD LIGHT UP ARCTIC TOWNS
January 13, 2011
Two Ontario architecture students have big ideas on how to light up Arctic
communities that remain dark through the winter months.
University of Waterloo students Virginia Fernandez and Claire Lubell, both 24,
just won an honourable mention in an international architecture competition
for their project called Buoyant Light.
The concept: giant, solar balloons which would hover by the shore and near major
centres in a northern village. In the summer months, a device inside the balloons
would collect sunlight; through the winter months, the balloons would give off light.
read more
UNSILENT NIGHT 2010 A RESOUNDING SUCCESS!
December, 2010
Students from the School of Architecture played a key role in the success of Unsilent Night in the City of Cambridge this December. Students from Professor Terri Meyer Boake's Arch 443/646: Architecture + Film class created the large projections that illuminated the walls of the Old City Hall and CIBC Bank. Students also created video installations along Melville Street. Masters students created installations in the Sculpture Garden, Melville Courtyard and along Water Street.
Please visit our video gallery to see footage of the event!
Some press from the night:
http://www.cambridgereporter.com/news/article/226167
http://www.therecord.com/videozone/304852
http://www.cambridgenow.ca/npps/story.cfm?nppage=2068
AURORA WINS PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD FOR NUIT BLANCHE 2010
November, 2010
We’re delighted to share the news that Aurora, the immersive interactive installation developed with Waterloo Architecture (under the direction of Professor Philip Beesley) and Engineering for Toronto’s 2010 Scotiabank-Nuit Blanche has been awarded ‘People’s Choice’ by popular voting. The project included collaboration with Rob Gorbet and his Engineering/Knowledge Integration-based lab, and was led by Waterloo Architecture graduate Eric Bury and Engineering Master's student Brandon Dehart, with architecture/engineering team Hayley Isaacs, Jonathan Tyrrell, Carlos Carillo Duran, Galen MacLuskey and Natalie Schelew, as well a large team of generous volunteers. Profound thanks to all.
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/exhibition.aspx?zone=A&mapID=5#7
4A STUDENTS WIN HONORABLE MENTION IN INTERNATIONAL VELUX STUDENT COMPETITION
October, 2010
Claire Lubell and Virginia Fernandez were awarded an honorable mention for their design project for the 2010 International Velux Student Design Competition. Full details of their submission can be viewed here. Their faculty advisor was Lola Sheppard.
THE OPENING OF THE HYLOZOIC GROUND EXHIBITION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
August, 2010
The Hylozoic Ground exhibit is now open for enjoyment at the 2010 Venice Biennale. Please visit this link to view some additional photos from the opening.
In conjunction with this project Philip Beesley participated in a TED talk.
OMER ARBEL WINS THE RONALD THOM AWARD FOR EARLY DESIGN ACHIEVEMENT
August, 2010
The Canada Council for the Arts announced that Vancouver designer Omer Arbel is the winner of the $10,000 Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement. This award recognizes exceptional talent and achievement in the field of architectural design, and is given every two years to an emerging practitioner or a firm demonstrating both creative talent and exceptional potential in architectural design. The candidate must be sensitive to architecture’s allied arts, crafts and professions, including landscape, interior and furniture design as well as decorative and graphic arts. This prize was established in 1990, in collaboration with the Canada Council, by friends and colleagues of Thom, an eminent Canadian architect, as a tribute to his life and work.
Omer graduated with his B.Arch. from the School of Architecture at Waterloo in 2000.
Full story on Canadian Architect web site.
LATERAL OFFICE WINS THE PROFESSIONAL PRIX DE ROME PRIZE
July, 2010
Toronto architecture firm Lateral Office is the winner of the $50,000 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture for 2010. Administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, this award recognizes excellent achievement in Canadian architectural practice.
Lateral Office’s founding partners, Lola Sheppard and Mason White, will use the prize funds to travel to the Arctic to pursue their research proposal entitled Emergent North. The travel research continues an ongoing investigation and documentation of cold-climate settlement forms, issues, and vernacular innovations in the circumpolar region. Emergent North looks at the challenges and opportunities of the public realm, civic space, landscape, and infrastructure emerging from a unique geography. Sheppard and White will conduct two travel routes through Nunavut, Yukon, and Northwest Territories, as well as Alaska and Greenland, to gather first-hand knowledge and documentation of Far Northern settlements. This research will inform a series of ongoing design projects responding to social, political, economic and ecological issues confronting the far north.
Read more at Canadian Architect online.
LIVING ARCHITECTURE - A COLLABORATION BETWEEN WATERLOO ARCHITECTURE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
October, 2009
Waterloo Architecture is collaborating with University College London and Syddansk Universitet on ‘living architecture’ chemical systems that can be integrated within sustainable buildings of the future. Collaborators Rachel Armstrong, Martin Hanczyk, Neil Spiller, Philip Beesley and Rob Gorbet are combining their research in order to create hybrid building-scale circulatory systems that can generate their own skins, capture carbon and convert toxic byproducts into harmless limestone-like materials. The system will be integrated within the Hylozoic Ground project, Canada’s entry to the 2010 Venice Biennale. Work in progress includes workshop and lectures at UCLs Unconventional Computing & Architecture conference, London, February 2010.
Read the entire article in the Times Online
http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/events/event_diary_details.asp?id=510
Traube cell, self-generating synthetic membrane and building fibre systems by Dr. Rachel Armstrong being integrated within Waterloo Architectures Hylozoic Ground project (photo: Beesley)
PHILIP BEESLEY AND HYLOZOIC GROUND WILL REPRESENT CANADA AT THE VENICE BIENNALE FOR 2010
December, 2009
We are very pleased to announce that Philip Beesley, in conjunction with Rob Gorbet, and the Hylozoic Ground Project, have been chosen to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Biennale.
VISIT THE PROJECT GALLERY TO FOLLOW THE PROGRESS OF THE INSTALLATION!
The exhibition will take place in Venice, Italy from September to November 2010. Hylozoic Ground is a uniquely Canadian experimental architecture that explores qualities of contemporary wilderness. The project will transform the Canadian Pavilion in Venice with an immersive environment composed of a network of interactive mechanical fronds, filters and whiskers that senses and responds to its human occupants. Arrays of touch sensors and actuators create a breathing motion, intended to draw visitors into the “shimmering depths of a forest of light.” The project builds upon the interdisciplinary work of PBAI and collaborators, combining innovative research within architecture, engineering and sculpture. The exhibition is intended to tour a number of Canadian galleries following the installation in Venice.
The Canada Council for the Arts and Royal Architecture Institute of Canada are working together to provide financial support and assist with project oversight for Canada’s architectural representation in Venice. This collaboration is part of a larger project to investigate developing support for the advancement of the presentation and appreciation of contemporary Canadian architectural excellence in Canada and abroad.
For more information and for downloadable images of this project are available in the Canada Council image gallery at: www.canadacouncil.ca/news/imagegallery.
Please also visit the Hylozoic Ground web site at http://www.hylozoicground.com/
More info:
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2009/jf129053599533877463.htm?colo ur=red
http://www.akimbo.ca/news/index.php?id=500 http://news.therecord.com/article/648300
http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/279422/architecture-philip-beesley-representera-le-canada-a-la-biennale-de-venise
http://iphone.cbc.ca/arts/story/2009/12/15/hylozoic-biennale-architecture.html http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=2345592 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/radical-architecture-chosen-for-biennale/article1401985/
http://www.domusweb.it/architecture/article.cfm?id=258335&lingua=_eng
Read the article in the Kitchener Waterloo Record.
SUPPORT HYLOZOIC GROUND AS IT REPRESENTS CANADA AT THE VENICE BIENNALE FOR 2010
July, 2010
Fundraising efforts are underway to support the Hylozoic Ground Project as it makes its way towards the Venice Biennale! Please click here to assist in this effort! Fronds can be sponsored for as little as $100!
GALT STUDIO WINS PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD!
November, 2009
We are very pleased to announce that the TwoFold Installation at Nuit Blanche in Toronto on October 3, 2009 was awarded the People's Choice Award!
Students from our 3B class were responsible for the design, construction and installation of the piece.
For more images and video, please visit our Gallery.
TEAM NORTH TAKES 4TH AT THE 2009 SOLAR DECATHLON
October 18, 2009
We are very pleased to announce that Team North Received a 4th place overall in this competition. Congratulations to all involved in the project!
Our North House Solar Decathlon was in Washington, D.C. from October 8 to 21, erecting, showing and disassembling their competition entry on the Washington Mall.
Our North House just prior to shipping to Washington.
For more information on the event, please visit http://www.solardecathlon.org/for_teams.cfm
For the Team North web site, go to: http://www.team-north.com/
For more images, please visit our Gallery.
THE ROADSHOW INTERVIEWS
Fall 2009
The interviews from the Roadshow are now available online!
SARGASSO FIELDS INSTALLATION, BRUSSELS
Fall 2009
The images below represent some of the highlights of the Sargasso Fields Installation project, led by Professor Philip Beesley.
The original installation was created in Waterloo Architecture’s summer school at the Royal Danish Academy CITA centre, August 2009. The work is touring in Brussells and will then be installed at the UN Climate Summit, Copenhagen, December 2009.
Waterloo Architecture students who contributed to this include: Anna Beznogova, Newsha Ghaeli, Ian Huff, Taehyung Kim, Lily Nourmansour,i Sayjel Pate,l Simeon Rivier and graduates Vincent Hui, Andrew Wong, and with the leadership of Hayley Isaacs and Eric Bury.
For more information on the Waterloo collaboration in Sargasso Fields installation, Brussells please visit:
http://www.pluto-festival.be/
INFRANET SELECTED FOR PAMPHLET ARCHITECTURE NO. 30
Fall 2009
InfraNet Lab, composed of Mason White, Lola Sheppard, Maya Przybylski and Neeraj Bhatia - was selected for Pamphlet Architecture no.30, an international competition that called for "proposals aimed at inventive new infrastructure for the United States." The winning entry, entitled Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism, was submitted by InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office and will be published as number 30 in the Pamphlet Architecture series of publications. InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office is a research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics.
http://www.papress.com/other/pamphletarchitecture/competition.tpl
INFRANET SELECTED AS A FINALIST FOR WPA 2.0
Fall 2009
InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office has been selected as a finalist for the WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture international competition. Their scheme is titled Water Economies / Ecologies and looks at the competing conflicts in the US Southwest of water shortage, agriculture, and rapidly expanding populations. Their research centres on terminal lakes in this region and uses the Salton Sea, among others, as a case study.
A public workshop at cityLAB in Los Angeles takes place September 26 and a public symposium of the finalists on Nov 16 in Washington, DC to the jurors and select policy-makers.
http://www.wpa2.aud.ucla.edu/info/index.php?/section1/first-round-finalists-announced
