Kuwabara payne mckenna blumberg architects.
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects is one of most innovative architectural offices in North America today. They have made a name for themselves both for their integrated design process embodying collaboration with experts, clients and future users as well as the diversity of their aesthetica...
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Publisher Address: | Basel/Berlin/Boston : |
Publication Dates: | [2013] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects is one of most innovative architectural offices in North America today. They have made a name for themselves both for their integrated design process embodying collaboration with experts, clients and future users as well as the diversity of their aesthetically refined and finely detailed designs. |
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1 online resource(280pages) : illustrations Also available in print edition. |
ISBN: | 9783034614283 |
Index Number: | NA749 |
CLC: | TU-097.11 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Building Cities, Making Friends / Maturity: a Commentary / Opposable Minds / The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. / TIFF Bell Lightbox and Festival Tower, Toronto -- Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, Toronto -- Gardiner Museum, Toronto -- Young Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto -- Canada s National Ballet School, Toronto -- Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa -- Orchestra Hall Renewal, Minneapolis -- Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon -- What makes life worthwhile and enables civilizations to endure are all the elements and qualities that have poor returns under commercial metrics: universities, temples, poetry, choirs, parks, literature, language, museums, terraced fields, long marriages, line dancing and art. Nearly everything humans hold valuable is slow to develop and slow to change. / Vaughan City Hall, Vaughan -- Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Campus, Waterloo -- Centennial College Applied Research and Innovation Centre, Scarborough -- The Study at Yale Hotel, New Haven -- Joseph L. Rotman School of Management Expansion, Toronto -- Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre, Waterloo -- Kellogg School of Management, Evanston -- 20 Washington Road, Princeton -- The soul of a city is about the finding of intimacy and stimulation in the streets that are a wardrobe and not just a place of business; on the shorelines that lyrically address the urban; in the residences that speak conviviality; under skylines that don t intimidate, but invite aspiration. / Le Quartier Concordia, Montreal -- 180 Queen Street West, Toronto -- Torys LLP Offices, Toronto -- SugarCube, Denver -- Gluskin Sheff + Associates Offices, Toronto -- 18 York and Southcore Financial Centre, Toronto -- Toronto Community Housing, Block 32, Toronto -- The Globe and Mail Centre, Toronto -- ... the collective knowledge, capability, and resources embodied within broad horizontal networks of participants can be mobilized to accomplish much more than one firm acting alone. Whether designing an airplane, assembling a motorcycle, or analyzing a human genome, the ability to integrate the talents of dispersed individuals and organizations is becoming the defining competency... / Manitoba Hydro Place, Winnipeg -- George Brown College, Waterfront Campus, Toronto -- Bridgepoint Health, Toronto -- Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, Toronto -- 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes Village/Canary District, Toronto -- Staff Since 1987 -- Project Credits -- About KPMB -- Clients, Collaborators, Projects Since 1987 -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Acknowledgements. |