Posts Tagged ‘University of Toronto’

Where architecture meets artwork

Calgary born architect L. Frederick Valentine spent his life defining the cityscape of modern Calgary, and now the city will seek to define him through his body of work currently on display at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts. The downtown gallery is showcasing 40 years of the University of Toronto/Harvard graduate’s designs, ranging [...]

Sunday, October 29th, 2006 In Architecture, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Awards Highlight Outstanding Canadian Architecture

On September 20 at 6 p.m., 11 Canadian projects will be awarded the Governor General’s Medals in Architecture, which recognize “outstanding achievement” in designs recently built by Canadian architects. The Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Her Excellency, the Honorable Lise Thibault, will preside over the ceremony, which will be held in Montreal at l’Institut de tourisme [...]

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Thirty Meter Telescope Passes Conceptual Design Review

The detailed design for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) developed by a U.S.-Canadian team is capable of delivering on the full promise of its enormous light-collecting area, according to the findings of an independent panel of experts.
With the TMT, astronomers will be able to analyze the light from the first stars born after the Big [...]

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