The Kentucky Society of Architects presented Deborah Berke with one of their 2011 Honor Awards for the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville; “Mega + Micro: Canada, Invention at the Extremes,” by Trevor Boddy, has been shortlisted for the best architectural criticism published worldwide in the past three years for the 2011 CICA Awards; Theo. David’s Gladstonos 22 housing development (pictured at left) has been shortlisted in the housing category of the 2011 World Architecture Festival; Board Member Saskia Sassen was named as the first Visiting Fellow of Indiana University’s Framing the Global project; and John Wong’s SWA Group was announced as the winner of a competition to re-design the downtown lakefront in the rapidly-developing city of Suzhou, China.
Fellows’ Awards & Honors: Berke, Boddy, David, Sassen, & Wong
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Boddy Re-thinks Vancouver’s Suburbs
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Following up the ideas competition he co-convened earlier this year, Fellow Trevor Boddy is currently using TownShift: Suburb Into City submissions in a series of visually-driven public urban design workshops for the fast-growing Vancouver suburb of Surrey. Boddy’s critique of 2010 Winter Olympics architecture and urban design (“Vision Deficit” for Vancouver Review) is a finalist for “Best Social Issues” and “Gold Award, Best Article, All Categories” at the Western Magazine Awards.
Vancouverism Exhibition at the New Woodwards
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Institute fellow Trevor Boddy is curating and producing the Vancouverism exhibition, called “a mirror for our most innovative design and city-building, a catalyst for debate and reflection.” The exhibition opens January 2010 at the New Woodwards in downtown Vancouver.
Townshift: Suburb Into City: Open Ideas Competition
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Institute fellow Trevor Boddy is organizing an open ideas competition [Townshift: Suburb Into City] for the town of Surrey, just outside of Vancouver. The competition is open to all and includes $75,000 in cash prizes. Entries are due January 6, 2010. More information at [http://www.townshift.ca].
