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blOAAG Smart Scale Ruler - digital scale for paper drawings

Article (text and images)

2018/APR/13

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Smart Scale Ruler - digital sc...

https://youtu.be/4tDHuEzBws4 Toronto industrial designer Joanne Swisterski designed a digital scale ruler. The unique design allows switching scales and creating custom scales to measure ou-of-scale...

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tools

scale

measure

digital

Article (text and images)

2020/SEP/30

Roddy Handa

Copyright has no place in Arch...

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...

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digital twins

Article (text and images)

2024/OCT/02

OAA

The Kensington Apartments

Location: Kingston, Ontario Completed: 1830s, 1870s, 2017 Architect: John Power and Sons (1876), Shoalts and Zaback Architects Ltd. (renovation) Nominated by: Ted Hsu, MPP (Kingston and the...

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the kensington apartments

queens park picks

queens park picks 2024

Article (text and images)

2018/SEP/18

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Design Process through Sketchi...

Drawings by Andrew Muffitt Architect, OAA, BES, BArch, LEED AP, Partner at Kohn Partnership Architects Inc. This post is part of our summer 2018 blOAAg series, Summer Sketches: Capturing the Essence...

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Summer 2018 Series

Sketches

Capturing the Essence of Architectural Ideas

Article (text and images)

2020/NOV/01

Book Review by Loghman Azar, M.Arch.UD. AIBC. OAA

Book Review: Designing a World...

From the “World-class” in the title, I thought this book is about design, but make no mistake it is all about marketing, winning projects, corporate strategies, organization, operation, business...

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book review

designing a world-class architecture firm

Article (text and images)

2020/APR/15

Parham K

Responding to the COVID crisis

The desire to answer the call for crowd-sourced manufacture of PPE was unanimous throughout the office With the COVID-19 pandemic touching every corner of peoples’ lives, bringing radical...

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#shiftingparadigms

#ppe

#digitalfabrication

#3dprinting

Article (text and images)

2017/OCT/02

Ontario Association of Architects

Canadian Club Brand Heritage C...

Location: Windsor (formerly Walkerville) Date of Completion: 1894 Architect: Mason and Rice (USA) Nominated by: Percy Hatfield, MPP (Windsor-Tecumseh) Sitting on the Canadian shore of the...

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queens park pick

Article (text and images)

2018/FEB/05

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Winter Stations (2015–present)...

In this post of our winter blOAAg series, “Temporary Architecture: Pavilions, Structures and Follies,” we take a look at the celebrated Winter Public Art installations located at The...

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Temporary Architecture

Winter 2018

installations

pavilions

structures

blOAAG National Arts Centre Rejuvenation

Article (text and images)

2018/MAR/26

Parham K

National Arts Centre Rejuvenat...

Location: Ottawa, ON Architect: Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated Date of Completion: 2017 OAA Design Excellence Awards Finalist For Canada’s 150th celebrations, the National Arts...

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oaa awards 2018

design excellence

finalists

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