Architects’ best makes complexity functional

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Architects’ best makes complexity functional

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2005 / May 26

Curated by retired UBC architecture professor Andrew Gruft, Substance Over Spectacle is a complex survey of the recent work of 27 critically acclaimed Canadian architectural firms. Projects range from major West Coast public buildings (Hotson Bakker/KPMB’s Richmond City Hall; Patkau Architects’ Strawberry Vale elementary school near Victoria) to private Atlantic Canadian homes (MacKay-Lyons’s Nova Scotia coast houses), as well as more speculative projects that flirt with aspects of landscape architecture and civic planning (Pierre Thibault’s lyrical Winter Gardens, which recall the work of Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy, or George Yu’s multilevel alteration of Richmond’s orderly grid of suburban streets).

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