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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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : De Gruyter : Birkhäuser, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Zardini, Mirko
  • Building Cities, Making Friends / Kingwell, Mark
  • Maturity: a Commentary / Baird, George
  • Opposable Minds / Fisher, Thomas
  • 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. / Gould, Glenn
  • 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. / Hawken, Paul
  • 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. / Giorgio Di Cicco, Pier
  • 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 ... / Tapscott, Don ; Williams, Anthony D.
  • 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.