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Summer Sketches
Submissions for the OAA’s annual Summer Sketches are now open. Submit your hand-drawn project sketches to the
OAA Architectural Graduate by July 18 for a chance to be featured on the blOAAg. Showcase your creativity and architectural vision!
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The dialogue between building and nature - structure and site - is among the most fundamental considerations in the design of a cottage. Whether it is through materiality, siting, scale, or views...
Location: Kirkfield, Ontario
Date of Completion: 1905
Engineer: Richard Birdsall Rogers
Nominated by: Laurie Scott, MPP (Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock)
A machine as big as an industrial building...
There is nothing that quite compares to the pleasure and intensity of sketching Plein Air, losing track of time and getting totally lost in the experience. Only later does the dehydration, sunburn...
Ontario Association of Architects
Location: Kinmount
Date of Completion: 1876
Architect: N/A
Nominated by: Hon. Laurie Scott, MPP (Haliburton - Kawartha Lakes - Brock)
“Kinmount is likely one of the few villages where the...
Set among the lush forests of the Kawarthas, near the township of Minden, Ontario, the Minden Wild Water Preserve is an engineered slalom course on the Gull River. Dating back to 1972, the course was...
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