$6.95 JAN/13 V.58 N.01 URBAN SUSTAINABILITY EIFS and QAP Better Together. Choosing an Exterior Insulation Finish System (EIFS) project, governed by the EIFS Quality Assurance Program Inc. (EQI), helps safeguard the superior value of your building’s EIFS throughout its life cycle with: • EIFS the vanguard of energy code solutions • Applied building science research and development • Mandatory safeguards and compliance • Licensed EIFS manufacturers, trades, site auditors • 3rd party assurance warranties • Education, support and documentation www.eifsqap.com Get involved matters ...architecture Get the benefits Support the profession FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS / DIAMOND AND SCHMITT ARCHITECTS INCORPORATED / PHOTO: TOM GRIFFITH Become a member for 2013 | www.raic.org DIRECTOR, PROGRAM IN ARCHITECTURE The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, invites applications for a full-time tenure-stream appointment in Architecture to serve as the Director of the Faculty’s Program in Architecture. This appointment will be at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor and will be effective July 1, 2013. Candidates will be expected to possess the expertise to teach and conduct research in one, or more of the following areas: Building and/or Environmental Systems; Digital Design/Fabrication; Architecture and Health; Parametric, Visualization-based Urbanism. The Director of the Architecture Program provides leadership in the crafting, delivery, and ongoing reform of the faculty’s 3.5-year professional master’s program. This would include being the lead authority and spokesperson for the program with regard to staffing and everyday management of the curricular and extra-curricular aspects of the program, student recruitment and advising, and outreach to professional, academic and other communities with a stake in architectural discourse and practice. Set within a preeminent research university and located at the center of one of North America’s most cosmopolitan cities, the Daniels Faculty uniquely combines the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. The Daniels Faculty explores the intersections between nature, technology, architecture, and various built geog- raphies in a way that situates design to meet its contemporary challenges. An emphasis on the connections between all of the design disciplines at work in the remaking of the built environment is apparent in the scholarly research and built work of many of our faculty. Following a decade-long transformation of the school’s faculty and professional programs, and a recent, major increase in its endowment, the Faculty is expanding its foundation in undergraduate teaching, and its research capacity by developing a PhD in Architecture, Land- scape, and Design Studies. To accommodate both growth in its curricular offerings, and an increase in its research and outreach programs, a new building complex is being constructed by the Faculty on Toronto’s historic One Spadina Crescent. The Daniels Faculty is particularly committed to exploring new modes of practice by drawing on the community of minds at the Uni- versity of Toronto, and a wide array of globally positioned academic, industry, and public sector partners. The Faculty enjoys ties with a number of adjacent disciplines within the University of Toronto (Engineering, Geography and Planning, Art, Literary Studies, Informa- tion, Medicine/Health) via both cross-disciplinary teaching appointments and various forms of research. The Daniels Faculty would be an especially engaging environment for someone whose creative work, or research explores the speci ficities of contemporary practice from a perspective that is historically informed, technologically advanced, and theoretically acute. Candidates would be expected to bring a substantial creative, or technical research program, and to demonstrate not only a capacity to fuse their agenda with the interests and commitments of the faculty, but to build new research capacities and relationships. The search will focus on individuals with a minimum of a professional Masters in Architecture. Doctoral credentials and a demon- strated capacity for administration would be a plus. Salary, appointment type, and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Evidence of excellence in teaching and research is required. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. All qualified candidates are invited to submit their application online by clicking the link below. http://uoft.me/academicopportunities (referencing #1201749). Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching dossier, a statement outlining current and future research objectives, and representative examples of publications, research, and design work. If you have questions about this position, please contact Kevin Wilson ([email protected], T 416 946 0208, F 416 971 2432). The UofT application system can accommodate up to five attachments (10 MB) per candidate profile; please combine attachments into one or two files in PDF/MS Word format. Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. Applicants should also ask at least three referees to send letters directly to the department via e-mail to [email protected] by the closing date, March 15, 2013. For more information on the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design please visit our website at: http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca// The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. CONTENTS NIC LEHOUX NIC KINDRED CONSTRUCTION KINDRED SCHMIDT HAMMER LASSEN/MARSHALL TITTEMORE ARCHITECTS HAMMER LASSEN/MARSHALL SCHMIDT 9 NEWS 14 MONAD Bing Thom Architects and Ronald Lu & THE LANG WILSON PRACTICE IN ARCHITECTURE CULTURE CONTINUES ITS EXPLORATION Partners Company Ltd. selected to design OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN LIVING IN THE DESIGN OF THIS PREFAB MULTI-UNIT RESIDENCE IN VANCOUVER’S DESIRABLE KITSILANO NEIGHBOURHOOD. TEXT ADELE WEDER Opera House in Hong Kong; commission for the Inuit Art and Learning Centre for the Winnipeg Art Gallery won by Michael 20 CITY OF EDMONTON Maltzan Architecture and Cibinel Archi- tects Ltd. A NUMBER OF RECENT ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN INITIATIVES IN EDMONTON SIGNAL A POSITIVE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY’S DOWNTOWN CORE AND SUBURBS. TEXT GRAHAM LIVESEY 27 TECHNICAL Douglas MacLeod reports on the increased use and sustainable benefits of cross-laminated timber. 31 REVIEW Diverse visions of Montreal contained in a current exhibition entitled ABC : MTL at the Canadian Centre for Architecture are BING THOM ARCHITECTS THOM BING considered by Louise Pelletier. 36 CALENDAR The Happy Show at the Design Exchange in Toronto; Kenneth Frampton comes alive at the National Gallery of Canada. 38 BACKPAGE A tribute to the late, great Grant Marshall and his influence on interior design in his home city of Winnipeg and beyond, by Herbert Enns. JANUARY 2013, V.58 N.01 COVER THE MONAD RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX IN VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA BY LANG WILSON PRACTICE IN ARCHITECTURE CULTURE THE NATIONAL REVIEW OF DESIGN AND PRACTICE/ (LWPAC). PHOTOGRAPH BY NIC LEHOUX. THE JOURNAL OF RECORD OF ARCHITECTURE CANADA | RAIC 01/13 CANADIAN ARCHITECT 5 VIEWPOINT pro-business and pro-automobile stance, Ford threatened to derail plans long in the making, ALANAH HEFFEZ inciting the righteous ire of the local architec- tural community, among other constituencies. Throughout the past century, municipal gov- EDITOR ernance has attracted its fair share of strong ELSA LAM ASSOCIATE EDITOR personalities. However, these figures do not ex- LESLIE JEN, MRAIC clusively occupy the seat of mayor, nor are their EDITORIAL ADVISORS IAN CHODIKOFF, OAA, FRAIC legacies uncontested. JOHN MCMINN, AADIPL. Perhaps no city-shaper is as notorious as Rob- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS GAVIN AFFLECK, OAQ, MRAIC ert Moses, who comprehensively transformed HERBERT ENNS, MAA, MRAIC DOUGLAS MACLEOD, NCARB, MRAIC New York from the mid-1930s to the late 1960s, REGIONAL CORRESPONDENTS while occupying various non-elected roles in HALIFAX CHRISTINE MACY, OAA REGINA BERNARD FLAMAN, SAA MONTREAL DAVID THEODORE CALGARY DAVID A. DOWN, AAA city and state government. Robert Caro’s 1974 WINNIPEG HERBERT ENNS, MAA VANCOUVER ADELE WEDER biography The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the PUBLISHER TOM ARKELL 416-510-6806 ABOVE A COMMUTER ON BIXI TRAVELS ALONG Fall of New York, long the definitive oeuvre on his ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER THE MILTON STREET BIKE LANE IN THE PLATEAU legacy, criticized Moses’ aggressive management GREG PALIOURAS 416-510-6808 DISTRICT OF MONTREAL. THE SHARED CITY CIRCULATION MANAGER style and charged his urban renewal projects BEATA OLECHNOWICZ 416-442-5600 EXT. 3543 BICYCLE PROGRAM WAS CREATED UNDER with an underlying racist agenda. CUSTOMER SERVICE FORMER CITY MAYOR GÉRALD TREMBLAY, MALKIT CHANA 416-442-5600 EXT. 3539 WHILE BOROUGH MAYOR LUC FERRANDEZ History is a fickle judge, and the critical winds PRODUCTION JESSICA JUBB HAS CHAMPIONED THE LOCAL NETWORK OF have more recently turned in Moses’ favour.