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March 2014
Go Bullfrog!
I am a Bullfrog customer because, while reducing energy loads from buildings through design is part of the solution, it is not the whole solution. Consider that when we add Photovoltaics to the roof of a high-performance office building with the best envelope we can design, they can only provide power for about three stories […]
Read moreImagining My Sustainable City with No.9 and the Grade 7’s @ Parkdale Junoir & Senior Public School
I recently got to take part in a fantastic program run by No.9 called “Imagining My Sustainable City”. The program introduces sustainable urbanism and architecture to Grade 7 students across the city. This 4-day intensive workshop introduces children to urban planning, sustainability at both a localized and regional scale, spatial relationships between people and buildings, […]
Read moreNew U of T Architecture school, Green or Greenwash?
Thursday night I attended a presentation of the design for the new home of the U of T Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, designed by Nader Tehrani, principal of the firm NADAAA. The building is an addition to an historic building at one Spadina Circle. It’s in the current style that has sloped floors […]
Read moreLecture – Making Better Buildings
Chris Magwood will be speaking about sustainable building practices in his new book “Making Better Buildings”. The event is happening in the Pit in the Architecture Building at Ryerson University on Tuesday March 18th at 7pm to 9pm. Professor Mark Gorgolewski of Ryerson’s School of Architecture says of Chris: “Chris Magwood’s considerable experience of sustainable […]
Read moreStorefront – Heliotrope Spa
Sonia Yuan’s “Heliotrope Spa” project, completed as part of her 4th year undergraduate studio project at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture is now on display in our storefront. Sonia designed a building as well as the systems for the building, including a 1:1 prototype of a concentrating photo-voltaic facade system that uses […]
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