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April
02, 2008
Governor General’s Awards
in
Visual and Media Arts
Nomination Deadline June 27, 2008 |
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The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts
are Canada’s foremost distinctions for excellence in visual and media arts.
Nominees for the award must be professional artists who have maintained a
practice over a significant period of time and who have received national
and international recognition. Architects are eligible.
Up to eight awards (valued at $25 000) are available annually: six awards
for distinguished Artistic Achievement in visual and/or media arts; one
award for excellence in the Fine Crafts; and one award for an individual or
group for Outstanding Contribution to contemporary visual and/or media arts.
An independent peer jury of senior visual and media arts professionals
selects the winners.
Candidates for the award must be nominated by a recognized specialist in
visual arts, fine craft or media arts. Eligible nominators include:
• a director or a member of the board of a Canadian museum, public gallery,
cinematheque or
artist-run centre;
• an association of professional visual or media artists, or a national
service organization in visual
arts or media arts;
• a dean or professor of visual arts (including architecture), fine craft or
media at a Canadian
university;
• an established visual arts, fine craft or media arts critic or curator;
and
• any Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient or prizewinner in visual
arts or media arts.
The deadline to nominate a candidate is Friday, June 27, 2008. Please
consider nominating a worthy artist or architect for this prestigious award.
The award guidelines and nomination form are available on the Canada
Council’s
website.
For inquiries about the award and the nomination process, please contact:
Michel Gaboury, Visual Program Officer,
michel.gaboury@canadacouncil.ca
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April
02, 2008
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada is pleased
to announce Fellows and Honorary Fellows for 2008. ►
read more...
Also see
Daily Commercial News Story |
Royal
Architectural Institute of Canada |
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Honorary Fellow, Herménégilde
Chiasson, Hon. FIRAC, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, has lent his
support to New Brunswick’s Architects and the profession. In 2005 the
Lieutenant Governor’s Awards of Excellence in Architecture in New Brunswick
were created to recognize excellence in the work of resident practices and
to promote the value of architecture in building the province’s communities.
He has also sponsored an architecture lecture series in partnership with the
University of New Brunswick.
His Honour will be speaking Friday June 27 during the evening Gala dinner.
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February
18, 2008
National sustainable
design awards launched.
Deadline for entries is
April 11, 2008.
SAB Awards info
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Sustainable Architecture & Building magazine [SABMag] has
launched the SAB Awards to recognize excellence in the design
and execution of new and renovated Canadian buildings and
interiors of all types based on criteria of sustainable design,
architectural excellence and technical innovation.
“This national program will showcase sustainable design in
Canada. The results will be widely shared by publishing the
winning entries in the July/August issue of SABMag and its
website,
www.sabmag.net, through the media, and
in speaking engagements throughout the year. Through SABMag, and
now with the SAB Awards, we’re trying to advance the wave of
sustainable design and building in Canada,” says Awards manager
Don Griffith.
The jurors are: Jury chair Teresa Coady, AIA, MAIBC, MRAIC, LEED®
AP, CEO Bunting Coady Architects, Vancouver; Stephen Pope, OAA,
MRAIC, Sustainable Building Design Specialist, Natural Resources
Canada, Ottawa; and Andrew Frontini, B.Arch., B.E.S. OAA, MRAIC,
Partner, Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners, Toronto
Special thanks to our SAB Awards Sponsors: Silver: InterfaceFLOR,
Autodesk, Murox and Forbo Flooring, and Bronze: Western Archrib.
To register [without obligation] visit
www.sabmag.net, and then go to SABMag Awards; or
call 800-520-6281, x304.
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RAIC accepts 2030 Challenge
www.2010imperative.org
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The RAIC Board has agreed to be part of a movement which
began at the RAIC Festival in Edmonton in 2005 with a speech from Ed Mazria FAIA,
the founder of Architecture 2030. Many other groups, notably the AIA, the CAGBC
and USGBC, the US Conference of Mayors, and American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), have become involved and
are supporting the idea of a phased approach towards a carbon neutral
built-environment by 2030. The 2030 Challenge calls for all new buildings and
major renovations to reduce their fossil-fuel greenhouse gas-emitting energy
consumption by 50 per cent immediately, increasing this reduction to 60 per cent
in 2010, 70 per cent in 2015, 80 per cent in 2020, 90 per cent in 2025, and
finally, that all new buildings be carbon neutral by 2030. RAIC will be
circulating support materials (postcards and talking points) for Architects to
use with politicians, colleagues and clients.
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