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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!
Click here to view previous summer sketches.
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The following are summer sketches by Douglas Lawrence;
Venice, Italy
Burga, Italy
Burga, Italy
Los Angeles, California
Helsinki...
Photo Credit : Douglas Lawrence, Wolf Lake, Following the land, Watercolor. Architectural Credit : Douglas Lawrence...
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...
A sketch of Ostia Antica outside of Rome on a very cold and wet January day several years ago. (above)
A view of the Toronto Malting Silos on the waterfront. The landscape of pipes and metal stairs on...
Location: Town of the Blue Mountains, Ontario
Architect: Williamson Williamson Inc.
The Osler Bluff Ski Club is a renovation and addition onto a rustic 1974, heavy-timber structure. The addition...
Among Ontario’s millions of acres of forests and tens of thousands of lakes, no expanse has become more closely associated to cottages than Ontario’s iconic Muskoka region. Nestled between...
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...
In the early 1990’s American urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term "third place". The "first place" is a person's home, where they live. The "second place" is a person's place of...
Ontario Association of Architects
Location: Ivey Business School, Western University, London, ON
Architects: Hariri Pontarini Architects
Date of completion: 2014
OAA Awards 2016 Design Excellence Winner
Lieutenant Governor’s...
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