By Sean Ruthen
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Viva VDW!
Alas, all good things must come to an end, and so it was just over a week ago the Vancouver Design Week (VDW) wrapped up, successfully having combined...
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Vancouver Design Week – September 15th to 28th
What does design mean to you? Do you think it can make a difference in this world? According to the organizers of the inaugural Vancouver Design Week...
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Book Review – Jane’s Walk Annual: Volume One
“This book is about what can happen when people get together and go for a walk. In Guadalajara, they made a citizen’s crosswalk by tracking paint...
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Book Review – Small Town Architect
“There are now many paths for the architectural practitioner of today. The recent and future graduates in architecture will now have a different...
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PARKit Design Challenge
This past month, the City of Surrey unveiled the winners of PARKit, an ideas competition in which first prize was to design and build a pop-up park next...
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Carscadden Thrift: Selected Projects
Bruce Carscadden Architect is a small design studio based in Vancouver, Canada. In nearly a decade of practice, our firm has designed and executed...
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Book Review – Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature
A tree assumes its form depending on its variety. By repeating very simple rules, the tree creates a very complex order. But a tree also decides its own...
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Book Review – Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
We believe that design – whether of buildings, public parks, or infrastructure – is an invaluable tool for improving lives. Torre David, with its...
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Book Review: Will Alsop – The Noise
Alsop represents a new and singular breed of architect whose métier appears to close the breach between art and architecture by encapsulating sculpture...
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On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
Author: Ada Louise Huxtable (Walker & Company, 2008) “She was too urbane to be a missionary, and too subtle to be a crusader. She was a writer, and a...
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Ai Weiwei: Art | Architecture
“…when I finished building my house, I learned that I was an architect.” Author: Ai Weiwei (Kunsthaus Bregenz – 2011) With 2012 about to draw to...
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EcoArchitecture: The Work of Ken Yeang
Ecodesign applies not just to how we design, construct, use, recycle, and eventually biointegrate our buildings back into the environment, but to all...