2006 GVSA News Listings

 

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2006 | Sept  

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• Canadian Infrastructure Summit
  Toronto Sept 27-28

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2006 | July  

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• Gaudi Movie - one time showing
  Waterloo July 12 - 13
   

• Open space - school of Architecture
  Cambridge July 5
   

• Marina Restaurant - Ludmila Dejmek
  Cambridge July 4

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2006 | June  

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• GVSA Lunch and Learn
  Soundproofing design June 21
   

• Planning for Public Places
  Waterloo June 22 2006.
   

• Stephen Carpenter
  Building design and energy conservation
   

• Wood Design Conference
  June 2006.
   

• REEP Program Cancelled
  May 2006.
   

• GVCA BE Award Winners 2006
  April 28 Building Excellence Awards .
   

• Designing the future of New Orleans
  Tulane University .
   

• New Kitchener Practice
  Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning .
   

• GVSA Member Projects
  Huntsville Civic Centre - Ventin Group .
   

• GVSA Member Projects
  Spruce Garden Lofts - Cambridge .
   

• Stratford Market design competition
  Stratford April 1 - July 7 deadline.
   

• CSC Golf Classic
  Cambridge June 7
   

• Wood Works Design Conference
  Windsor & Cambridge June 7 & 8, 2006
   

• Preservation Myths & Facts
  ACO June 2006
   

• Gardenscapes 2006
  June 25 Guelph - garden tour
   

• Frank Gehry - documentary
  Released in May 2006

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2006 | May  

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• Doors Open Toronto
  Toronto May 27 - 28
   

• Win new clients!
  BNi Building news May 2006
   

• Festival of Architecture & Design - fad
  Toronto - month of May 2006
   

• Kitchener seeks design input
  Kitchener May 8
   

• Affordable Housing Options
  May 4 Stratford - Avi Friedman
   

• GVSA Lunch & Learn #4
  May 17 Kitchener - Andrea Fazio of OwensCorning
   

• Grand House Co-op fund raiser
  May  Cambridge
   

• Heartwood Place development
  Andrew Bousfield - architect
   

• Green standards offer guide to builders
  Kitchener
   

• City Building for the Future
  May 5 Guelph
   

• Governor General's Medal
  Perimeter Institute wins GG design medal May 4 Waterloo
   

• OAA Conference May 2006
  May 10 - 13th 2006 Ottawa
   

• OAA Continued Education
  May 11 - 12th, Ottawa
   

• One Book, One Community
  Waterloo region
   

• HBSA Architecture Week 2006
  May 1 - 7th Hamilton and Burlington
   

• League works on quality of life
  Guelph May 2
   

• Cityscape 2006
  Dec 2006, Dubai
   

• League works on quality of life
  Guelph May 2
   

• Waste management
  Waterloo May 2006
   

• Renewable Energy seminar
  May 28, Wellesley
   

• Techtown
  Urban planning May  - Waterloo

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2006 | April  

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• Jane Jacobs Urban cruisader: dead at 89
  Toronto April 27
   

• Retro planning in Kitchener
  Kitchener April 25
   

• Norman Foster
  First Canadian project to complete in May 2006
   

• Design Competition
  Apr 15 - Vatican Museum Competition - Rome
   

• Architectural Heritage
  Apr 23 - Oct 15, Guelph - Guelph Arts Council Tours
   

• In the works
  4 new buildings approved at UWaterloo
   

• Geothermal Systems
  Apr 19, Guelph GVSA Lunch'n Learn
   

• David Suzuki
  Apr 25, Waterloo
   

• GVSA Lunch and Learn
  Schedule - Apr 19, Guelph, May 17 - Kitchener
   

• EnvironDesign Conference 2006
  April 25 - 27 2006 Toronto
   

• GVSA announces BE Awards 2006
  Building Excellence Awards April 2006
   

• Design at Riverside
  Mar 7 - Apr 9, Donald McKay, Cambridge
   

• Intelligent Building Summit 2006
  April 25 - 26, Toronto
   

• Doors Open Guelph
  Saturday April 22, Guelph
   

• UW Photovoltaics Building update
  Walter Fedy, Waterloo
   

• Mentors needed
  Your help is needed - 2006 SISO
   

• Design Exchange Charrettes
  Apr 21 - May 10, Toronto
   

• GVSA Lunch and Learn - March
  David Kelly - Dow Building Solutions
   

• GVSA Lunch and Learn - March
  Glenn Tench - W.R. Meadows of Canada
   

• BE Awards April 28
  GVSC Building Excellence Awards - April 28
   

• World Record Sand Castles
  Apr - Myrtle Beach
   

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2006 | March  

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• RHL Architects Changes Announced
  Mar 31 - Kitchener
   

• RS Architects Announced
  Mar 31 - Kitchener
   

• CSC Dinner Seminar
  Mar 29, Precast Architectural Concrete, Kitchener
   

• Concrete Technology Update
  Mar 20, Toronto
   

• GVSA Lunch and Learn Schedule
  Feb 15, Mar 15, Apr 19, Guelph and Kitchener
   

• Green Municipal Fund
  Mar 1, Up to $20 million in Fed loans
   

• Hamilton Design Guidelines 2006
  City of Hamilton
   

• Project Innovations
  Submissions required by April 1.
   

• Kitchener Heritage - Centre Block
  Protect Kitchener Heritage
   

• National Urban Design Awards
  Call for submissions by April 14, 2006
   

• Orphan Spaces call for Participation
  Design Exchange - City of Toronto

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2006 | February  

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• Support the GVSA - it's easy!
  Check the box when you pay your OAA dues.
   

• Heritage Conservation Workshop
  Feb 2 - 3 2006 St. Jacobs
   

• The Interior Design Show
  Feb 23 - 26,Toronto
   

• Cities by Design
  Panel Discussion Feb 17 2006 Kitchener
   

• Heritage Day Workshop
  Feb 20 - Cambridge - free to first 200
   

• Larry Beasley Lecture
  Feb 16 - Cambridge
   

• Arriscraft Lecture Series
  Feb 14, Feb 16, Feb 28, March 9, June 8 - Cambridge - free to first 200
   

• Ontario WoodWork winners
  2005 Awards Ceremonies recognize work in the GVSA
   

• Frank Gehry exhibit
  Feb 18 - June 18 2006 Toronto
   

• Solar energy in the GVSA
  Canadian centre for solar energy - Waterloo Region

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2006 | January  

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• CSC Flooring Seminar
  January  25 Kitchener
   

• UW Architects selected
  Quantum Computing and Nanotechnology building
   

• Call for BE Awards nominations
  Nomination cut off February 28th..
   

• Painting the Grand
  New book of GVSA communities.
   

• Not So Big House
  New thinking!
   

• Green Roofs Design Introductory Course
  January 20, Waterloo
   

• Eye to the Future
  Green designs by U of W students

• GVSA 2006
  Message from the GVSA chair

 

 

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