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July 3, 2013
The following British Columbia Institute of Technology students are this year’s recipients of graduate awards supported by the Architectural Institute of British Columbia:
July 3, 2013
By Jonathan Keats, Forbes
June 24, 2013
Building the Vitra Design Museum in the 1980s, construction workers hit a kink in the curvature of the roof. It was the architect’s fault. Frank Gehry’s spectacularly sculptural structure was simply too complicated to fully plan out with pencil and T-square. So for his next project, Gehry phoned up Lockheed, reasoning that the aerospace industry knew how to flawlessly model phenomenal complexity in 3D. Over the next decade, he became one of the first architects to enlist computers in his work. Without them, there probably wouldn’t be a Disney Concert Hall or Guggenheim Bilbao. Yet that hasn’t made Gehry a convert. As a revealing new exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture shows, ambivalence about digital architecture was characteristic of most of the architects who pioneered it, including Peter Eisenman, Chuck Hoberman and Shoei Yoh. More …
July 3, 2013
Architecture students are unhappy paying ever more for lengthy training that has remained largely unchanged since 1960s
By Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian
June 27, 2013
Wiry contraptions hang from the ceiling, while globular fungal forms nestle on tables between the spidery legs of 3D-printed creatures. A post-apocalyptic confetti of scalpel blades, empty Pot Noodles and cans of Coke is scattered among this landscape of foreign objects, while a sleeping bag pokes out from under a desk – perhaps with someone still in it. It is a familiar scene, repeated in the studios of UK architecture schools over the past few weeks, as bleary-eyed students prepare their portfolios for the final reckoning and begin sprucing up work for the summer exhibitions. The masochistic, sleep-deprived chaos may be nothing new, but beneath the usual end-of-year mayhem a deeper discontent appears to be brewing. More …
July 3, 2013
High-rises up to 36 storeys proposed for Commercial and Broadway neighbourhood raise looming citywide question: who decides?
By Charles Campbell, TheTyee.ca
June 25, 2013
News of the towers rippled through my neighbourhood in early June, at garage sales and block parties, at Micro Footie games and the Trout Lake Farmers Market. The city’s freshly minted draft Grandview-Woodland Community Plan calls for a radical remake of the area around the Broadway SkyTrain station: a possible 36-storey building on the Safeway site behind the station, towers up to 22 storeys in “transitional” zones including the area between 11th and 12th avenues near Commercial Drive, and more high-rises up to 26 storeys between Broadway and 7th towards Woodland. More …
July 3, 2013
Omicron Architecture Engineering Construction Ltd. has acquired the Vancouver firm of Grant & Sinclair Architects Ltd. The addition of architects Paul Grant and Douglas Sinclair along with their team brings a wealth of architectural expertise to Omicron with special emphasis on educational, institutional and custom residential commissions. It also strengthens Omicron’s position as one of the largest integrated development services, design and construction firms in Western Canada.
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