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New President of Ontario Association of Architects Wants to Put a Spotlight on Sudbury

The new president of the Ontario Association of Architects hopes to use that role to put the spotlight on his hometown of Sudbury.

In addition to leading the regulatory body for architects in the province, Ted Wilson teaches at Laurentian University's McEwen School of Architecture in the downtown area.

Wilson grew up in Sudbury, but later moved to Toronto with his family and eventually studied architecture at the University of Waterloo.

He returned to Sudbury when he became the architectural co-ordinator for a project to build Canada's newest architecture school in downtown Sudbury. The school opened in 2013 and Wilson later became a professor there.

He said returning to his hometown later in life has given him a new perspective on the northern Ontario city.

"I think having seen and walked through the smelter in Copper Cliff when I was a kid and having seen the Super Stack go up — the world before it, the world after it — I'm seeing the full arc of what is now becoming the end of that story," he said.

"And in the middle of that, seeing the incredible transformation to the place from what it was when I was young."

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