Kitchener (then called Berlin) was first illuminated by gas-powered artificial light in the 1880s, and now hosts a multiplicity of street light designs, from the purely functional to the characteristic standards and sphere luminaires found in heritage neighbourhoods. Night Light Path, created for Night\Shift 2016, presents a playful approach to the typically solid and uniform…
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Use It or Lose It? On preserving empty heritage buildings
Fifteen years ago, the spaces behind the red-brick façade at 48 Ontario Street North were emptied out, and so they remain today. But a group called Friends of 48 Ontario is pushing to reanimate the 106-year-old structure, which was home to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 50 for half a century and is now owned…
Care Package
This installation for Steel Rails 16 invites participants to build a styrofoam room inside a shipping container at a former industrial site in Kitchener, Ontario. Taking from a huge pile of styrofoam collected mainly from Kitchener curbs over a number of weeks, contributors install their pieces (as-is, carved, or otherwise altered) on an illuminated armature on…
MAQ Young Critic in Architecture Competition
My review of KPL’s Central Library renovation by LGA received a mention in the Young Critic in Architecture Competition hosted by Maison de l’architecture du Québec! Read the press release → Read the text →
Region of Waterloo Rapid Transit
Visualizations of station areas for the Rapid Transit Initiative (now ION), used for public consultation in print and digital media.
