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Architecture Canada | RAIC is pleased to announce that the Prix du XXe Siècle will be offered in partnership with the Heritage Canada Foundation. This award recognizes the enduring excellence of nationally significant architecture, such as landmark buildings in the historical context of Canadian Architecture. The award can go to a building in Canada, designed by an architect from any country, or a building anywhere designed by a Canadian architect.
RAIC and the Heritage Canada Foundation wish to promote public awareness about nationally significant architecture of the 20th century. |
Members in Alberta/Northwest Territories and Manitoba/Saskatchewan are currently making decisions to cast their vote for their next representatives on the RAIC Board.
- In the AB/NWT: Allan R. Collyer, FRAIC, John Hallett, MRAIC, Amir Hemani, MRAIC, and, Samuel Oboh, MRAIC, have put their names forward.
- In SK/MB: Jac Comeau, MRAIC, Michael Cox, MRAIC, and Pat Kelly, MRAIC, are all vying for the seat.
Members in those provinces are encouraged to get their ballots to RAIC by Dec. 5. |
Nominations are now being accepted to elect a Regional Director for the Atlantic region. The successful candidate will succeed Paul Frank, FRAIC, of Halifax, who was acclaimed as 1st Vice-President in October. As a result, the position of Regional Director for the Atlantic region is now vacant. Nominations are being received until Nov. 30.
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After considerable deliberation, the RAIC Foundation Trustees have consolidated the Gérard Venne Bursary, Michael J. Barstow Fund and Burwell Coon Travelling Scholarship. The consolidation of funds to the Foundation’s General Trust Fund will simplify the bursary process and allow for flexibility to respond to economic realities. |
 There is a new innovative green case study on the 2030 Challenge Case Studies web site. The Arts & Social Sciences Complex - a two phase multi-faculty precinct at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC focuses on occupant comfort, providing daylighting to interior spaces, including wet laboratories, which are traditionally closed environments.
The 2030 Challenge calls for design activities that will significantly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of new and renovated Canadian buildings. The Case Studies website highlights information and technology that rises to the Challenge and helps the Challenge become more achievable.
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 The first Regional Exhibition of “Migrating Landscapes” opened to an enthusiastic crowd of 200 VIPs, sponsors and press celebrated at the Museum of Vancouver November 4, with remarks by RAIC President Stuart Howard, FRAIC, and the curatorial team of 5468796 Architecture + Jae-Sung Chon.
The new designs for dwellings by 15 young BC designers or design teams displayed on “landscapes” of wood, together with video stories of migration, are on display until November 27. Regional winners, including the People’s Choice, will be announced at a closing reception, which includes a jury panel discussion November 25.
The next Regional Exhibition of “Migrating Landscapes” opens on December 7 at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary and runs through Dec. 17. Other regional exhibitions open in January and February in Saskatoon (Mendel Art Gallery), Winnipeg (The Forks Market), Toronto (Brookfield Place), Montreal (Parisian Laundry) and Halifax (Dalhousie).
All regional winners will proceed to the national final exhibition and competition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Spring 2012, where a jury of Eleanor Bond, Ian Chodikoff, FRAIC, Anne Cormier, Bruce Kuwabara, FRAIC, and John Patkau, FRAIC, will select the young, architectural “Team Canada” to represent Canada at the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture.
New Sponsors and Partners since last issue
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Platinum Sponsor: |
Aeroplan |
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Bronze Sponsor: |
IBI Group
Kerrisdale Lumber |
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Patron I: |
Halsall Associates |
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Patron II: |
GEC Architecture
Number TEN Architectural Group |
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Supporter: |
RAIC BC Chapter
Giannone Petricone Associates Inc. Architects |
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Friend II: |
Charlotte Davis |
Thank you all for your generosity and support of the next generation of Canadian architects in Canada and on the world stage!
To become a sponsor of “Migrating Landscapes” please contact RAIC Venice Biennale Project Manager, Sascha Hastings, at shastings@raic.org or 416-934-1595.
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5468796 Architecture, two thirds of the Migrating Landscapes Organizer (MLO) working to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale, keeps getting press. Their innovative Winnipeg residential project Avenue + Hample was featured in The Globe and Mail, with a congratulatory mention of MLO’s selection for Venice. |
RAIC, the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP), and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) are pleased to announce a Call for Submissions for the 2012 National Urban Design Awards. Winners from existing urban design awards in select cities will automatically be submitted to the national Urban Design Awards. Any individual or organization in any other Canadian urban municipality can submit a project. |
Deadline: 4 p.m. EST December 1, 2011
Architecture Canada | RAIC and the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) are pleased to invite Architects to participate in the competition for the 2012 Governor General’s Medals in Architecture, the highest award given in Canada recognizing and celebrating outstanding design in recently completed built projects by Canadian architects.
For the first time Submissions will be accepted electronically rather than in binder form. Instructions on submission can be found online. |
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 CHOP (Second Edition), the definitive reference for the architectural practice in Canada underwent a complete revision after 10 years to bring it into the digital age.
- More than 50 checklists – digital-era ready, including one for Integrated Design Process for Retrofitting Buildings
- Up-to-date references
- Current contacts and practice advice
- The latest provincial statistics and regulations
Get the complete package – hardcopy with CD and online access for one low price – $250 shipping included. Don't miss this limited time offer.
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Barry Johns, FRAIC, Chancellor of the College of Fellows is pleased to announce that Sebastian Butler, FRAIC, has agreed to succeed Larry McFarland, FRAIC, as Regional Chair for the BC/Yukon Region.
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Please login to the Services Portal to verify that all contact information and mailing preferences are up-to-date in order to ensure you receive your 2012 Membership Renewal Notice in December. |
Fredericton-based Architect Jon Oliver, MRAIC, has been chosen by the YMCA Fredericton Board of Directors and International Committee to be the 2011 YMCA Peace Medallion recipient. Oliver was described as motivating “countless individuals, including many young people, to become politically engaged and active whether it is through participating in party politics or community activist groups, defending civil liberties, advocating for the protection of Fredericton’s natural spaces or building community in his neighbourhood.”
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 Globe and Mail columnist Lisa Rochon, 2008 recipient of the President's Award for Architectural Journalism interviewed Toronto-based Architect Tye Farrow, FRAIC, recipient of the 2005 RAIC Award for Innovation.
His firm, Farrow Partnership Architects Inc, is the lead of a design team that includes American firm Clark Nexsen and South African architects Ngonyama Okpanum, which recently won an international competition to create several centres of wellness in rural, urban and township areas in South Africa. Jury members from five continents selected their innovative design for the Health Promoting Lifestyle Centres, which resembles a blooming flower to symbolize “massive outbreaks of health.” |
Architect John Leroux, MRAIC, was praised by the Telegraph-Journal for the launch of his latest book, Glorious Light: The Stained Glass of Fredericton, marking the first time there has been a fully illustrated book examining the stained glass of a Canadian city. The book, published by Gaspereau Press, was launched at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, where an accompanying exhibition curated by Leroux is on display until January. |
New huts were unveiled for Ottawa’s Rideau Canal offering skaters and boaters a place to rest and adding style to one of Canada’s hertage sites. Anthony Leaning, MRAIC, CSV Architects offered the rationale behind the structures for the Ottawa Citizen. |
Eight students were presented with the 2011 Teron Scholar prizes by William Teron, Hon. FRAIC, himself. The local developer – known as the father of Kanata - and recipient of the Order of Canada established the Teron Scholars Program to increase the quality and quantity of lead architects in Canada. As reported in the Ottawa Citizen and the Morning Post Exchange, this year’s Scholars are exemplary. |
Ontario Wood WORKS! presented their 2011 Interior Wood Design Award to Diamond and Schmitt Architects for outstanding use of wood in their Toronto project, the Salvation Army Harbour Light  [1.49 MB]. The flagship building includes maple floors and red oak millwork and cabinetry are used throughout to “bring a sense of home” to the apartments and clinic. The church sanctuary interior is constructed entirely of wood. |
The Calgary Herald congratulated Calgary Architect Jeremy Sturgess, FRAIC, and the joint partnership of Sturgess Architecture, Read Jones Christoffersen and PCL Construction Management for winning the Future Projects (Competition) category at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. Their design for Glacier Discovery Walk, a proposed parabola cantilever supporting a 30-metre walkway floating 130 metres above Tangle Creek in Jasper National Park, won the unanimous support from the judges, who called it “a simple, elegant yet highly emotional project.” |
In his latest article for Spacing Vancouver, Sean Ruthen, MRAIC, reviews the book Tom Kundig: Houses 2 edited by Daniel S. Friedman. |
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Deadline: January 19, 2012 
