The UW School of Architecture is making its mark internationally!
The Grand House Student Co-op, brain child of our very own Chantal Cornu, is featured in this month's Architectural Record. Check it out on the magazine rack and online!
February 20, 2009
Our grass roots are far reaching
The UW School of Architecture is making its mark internationally!
The Grand House Student Co-op, brain child of our very own Chantal Cornu, is featured in this month's Architectural Record. Check it out on the magazine rack and online!
Not just a pretty facade...
Zerofootprint has just announced the Z-prize. The "Zerofootprint Skin Renewal Award" will be launched at the Discovery '09 Conference this May in Toronto.
More than just an anti-aging cosmetic approach, this award will challenge designers from across the wold to come up with new solutions to an old problem...old buildings. The largest greenhouse gas emissions in cities come from buildings. Rebuilding cities is not an option and retrofitting can be inadequate. Re-skinning, however, has many advantages:
· It can be used to hide a cheap retrofit
· It is potentially non-invasive
· It can make a ho-hum building into a handsome green role model
· It can be used to engineer an energy reduction of as much as 70%
· Re-skinning can be smart — solar, thermal, media, vegetation etc.
More information, and tonnes of inspiration, can be found at the new Zerofootprint resource area for a limited time in the library.
You can also find more books about designing like you give a damn now on display in the library.
More than just an anti-aging cosmetic approach, this award will challenge designers from across the wold to come up with new solutions to an old problem...old buildings. The largest greenhouse gas emissions in cities come from buildings. Rebuilding cities is not an option and retrofitting can be inadequate. Re-skinning, however, has many advantages:
· It can be used to hide a cheap retrofit
· It is potentially non-invasive
· It can make a ho-hum building into a handsome green role model
· It can be used to engineer an energy reduction of as much as 70%
· Re-skinning can be smart — solar, thermal, media, vegetation etc.
More information, and tonnes of inspiration, can be found at the new Zerofootprint resource area for a limited time in the library.
You can also find more books about designing like you give a damn now on display in the library.
February 10, 2009
January 26, 2009
Haiku poetry / challenge for Architecture / play to win sweet prize
For Haiku Contest
writing will be rewarding
details next stanzas...
Submit your poem
before February 10th
Email or paper
Poems on display
in the library until
the contest closes
Then from all entries
5 winners drawn randomly
sweet and yummy prize!!!
-LF
Poetry (straw-bale-y) jam
This month our friendly neighbourhood library is hosting their annual Poem-a-Day contest.It's open to all ages, all styles, and holds the possibility of prizes and publishing!
To celebrate the event you'll find an inspiring, architecture-related poetry display on the counter in our library. Drop by and learn more about architects who are poets, poetry in architecture, architecture in literature and the construction of poetry.
You will also find poetic interventions throughout the library as you browse for books!
January 21, 2009
Good on paper
Check out the latest edition of Spacing magazine. Their fifth anniversary issue focuses on the "Next generation of city builders" (psst....that's you guys) and features the winners of their thinkTORONTO urban design ideas competition (you guys again).
Some of them wanted to shine a light on the subway, and others wanted to get people reading on the rails...but all of them are about making the city a community.
Of the 20 winning ideas, many were from current and former UW Architecture students. Check out those entries on our bulletin board, or flip through the whole issue on our magazine rack!
January 6, 2009
December 8, 2008
Free floating
Online mag FLYP features Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut's idea for a new kind of island getaway. It is expected that global warming, and the resulting rise in sea levels, will create hundreds of millions of refugees. Callebaut's solution to this devastating problem are self-sufficient, amphibious cities called "lilypad".
A little (fish) food for thought...
To learn more about this looming crisis, and how it is already affecting millions of people around the world, check out the documentary "The Refugees of the Blue Planet" available in our film collection.
Able to leap tall buildings...
UW Urban Planning student, Michael Lee discusses the rising popularity of Parkour at UW and in the Waterloo Region in today's Hamilton Spectator.
November 13, 2008
Should you go to the AGO?
The dawn of a 'new' gallery is upon us. Is it a good thing? or a bad thing?
You could find out by reading Toronto Star Architecture critic Christopher Hume's lauding review of the renovation. Or by reading the criticism it's drawing from local contemporary artists. Or, find out what Frank Gehry thinks of his own work here.
You can also view 360 degree virtual tours of the Galleria Italia, and Walker Court Stairs. And another sort of tour here.
Or, you could find out yourself! This weekend the AGO is open to all...with events and entertainment for free!
Want to learn more about the AGO, Frank Gehry, or some of the AGO's featured artists, like Frank Stella? Check out the display of books, DVDs and articles on the counter in the library!
More on the new AGO here, here (with our own Anne Bordeleau!), and here.
You could find out by reading Toronto Star Architecture critic Christopher Hume's lauding review of the renovation. Or by reading the criticism it's drawing from local contemporary artists. Or, find out what Frank Gehry thinks of his own work here.
You can also view 360 degree virtual tours of the Galleria Italia, and Walker Court Stairs. And another sort of tour here.
Or, you could find out yourself! This weekend the AGO is open to all...with events and entertainment for free!
Want to learn more about the AGO, Frank Gehry, or some of the AGO's featured artists, like Frank Stella? Check out the display of books, DVDs and articles on the counter in the library!
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More on the new AGO here, here (with our own Anne Bordeleau!), and here.
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