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Architects, Air and SarsCov2
We are approaching nearly a year of life with COVID-19, yet the pandemic appears to be only worsening. By the time this gets published, worldwide deaths will have...
My name is Andy Thomson; I’m an architect with Thomson Architecture, Inc. and the OAA’s VP Strategic. I wanted to share this article, written by Alberta architect & lawyer Roddy Handa (with...
This is the second of a two part post exploring the life of Ontario’s first female architects, Elma Laird and Alexandra Biriukova. In our previous post we discussed some of the circumstances...
s blOAAg post will look at the female recipients of the OAA Service Awards –G. Randy Roberts Service Award, Order of da Vinci Award, and Lifetime Design Achievement Award– since...
Advocacy and the OAA: Colouring Between the Lines
By Adam Tracey
In Ontario, architecture is a self-regulated profession, but what does this really mean? In this two-part article, we will explore the...
When we started our special series “The Architects behind the Games” our goal was to showcase the often unnoticed behind the scenes work done by architects, intern architects, and...
Advocacy and the OAA: How it’s Done
By Adam Tracey
As the last post (Advocacy and the OAA: Colouring Between the Lines) detailed, the OAA must operate within the mandates enshrined in the...
Within the Toronto Public Library system, considered to be the busiest urban library system in the world, no library is bigger than the Toronto Reference Library. Completed in 1977 and designed by...
In this post of our fall blOAAg series “Renovation + Relocation”, we’re sharing a throw-back story on our first office space in down town Toronto provided by DTAH, the architects and designers of the...
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