After more than 35 years “in the trenches” as an architect, specialist consultant and now quality director for a large North American construction company, Brian Palmquist has written An Architect’s… Read more
Book Launch: An Architect’s Guide to Construction
BC Building Code II – Friday, March 20, 2015
This course covers professional responsibility, background, intent and concepts of significant code requirements and uses. It is relevant for architects, technologists, building officials and other industry participants. The deadline to… Read more
Skate to work: Architect proposes ‘freezeway’ trail for Edmonton
Edmonton freezeway design: An artist’s rendering of Matt Gibbs’ proposed Edmonton ‘freezeway’ design. CTVNews.ca Staff February 24, 2015, CTV News A UBC graduate who grew up in Edmonton has come… Read more
Canada, Australia and New Zealand sign APEC Architect MRA
By Joc Digital Media Journal of Commerce, February 21, 2015 Canada, Australia and New Zealand tonight signed a mutual recognition arrangement (MRA) that allows for fast-tracked cross-border registrations of senior… Read more
APEC Architect Project Mutual Recognition Agreement between Australia, Canada and New Zealand
Following two years of negotiations, we are pleased to announce that a Mutual Recognition Agreement has been signed between the Canadian Architectural Licensing Authorities (CALA), the Architects Accreditation Council of… Read more
UBC SALA Spring 2015 Lecture Series – Feb-Mar
Monday, March 2 BC Hydro Power Smart Lecture Christoph Reinhardt Sustainable Design Lab, MIT Monday, March 9 Harry J Webb and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Lecture Ron Williams WAA and Landscape… Read more
Bolivia’s “Spaceship Architecture” Showcases The New Wealth Of Indigenous People
By Jeanne Kim Feb 21, 2015, QUARTZ The architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre’s extravagant urban mansions in El Alto, Bolivia, have been derided as kitschy-looking cohetillos, meaning “spaceships”—giving his work the… Read more
7 Ways Architecture Can Tackle Global Warming
O-14, a Dubai tower by RUR Architecture, is covered by a concrete exoskeleton that creates a chimney effect, pipping hot air up through the three-foot-deep space between the perforated shell… Read more
Exhibit on Arctic architecture kicks off national tour in Winnipeg
By The Canadian Press Feb 23, 2015, CBCNews Canada’s award-winning entry at last year’s Venice Biennale in Architecture — a look at Arctic buildings past, present and future — kicks… Read more
Surrey’s PARKit Design Challenge 2015
Surrey’s PARKit Design Challenge 2015 – “Dueling Pianos” The City of Surrey is calling for submissions in the 2015 PARKit Design Challenge, a competition for the design and installation of… Read more