This is an extract from Jennifer Uegama’s M.Arch thesis from Dalhousie University, entitled Mining Meaning:The Reinhabitation of the Concentrator Mill at Brittania Beach . 2001. Jennifer Uegama is currently working in Halifax. The busy road and rail that separate the community from the sea link Vancouver to the resrt municipality of Whistler. Tens of thousands of people race past Brittania Beach each year, but only a few are engaged enough by the ruin on the mountain to stop and visit the museum that sustains Britannia’s history.
letters Hrdancy and other such places — O rianne J ohnson . Making a difference at gunpoint — D ave S pearing in Zamboanga, Philippines. real places A umer A ssaf finds a modernist space in Edmonton. J ennifer U egama visits Brittania Beach. projects K obayashi + Z edda ’s Mayo School, Mayo,Yukon. J ohn P eterson visits the Sharon Temple in Gwillumbury, Ontario. T om S trickland discovers how material restrictions at Jackson Triggs changed a project for the better The Turner Centre at Margate: new project from S nøhetta and S pence A ssociates .
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observers and thinkers P atrick H arrop and A ndrew V ernooy look at morphologies, structural and digital. T onkao P anin looks at the surfaces of some beautiful and recent buildings by Herzog and de Meuron. W ard E agen finds cyberplaces in our daily rituals. M yron N ebozuk assesses the US Embassy in Ottawa. S tephanie W hite thinks about Architectura’s struggles. A ndrew K ing considers beauty lost and found.
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news from the schools D arrel R onald marches with the best of them in Montreal competitions Winnipeg: East Exchange and Red River International Ideas Competition. Deadline for submissions May 29, 2002. back page bridges Well, not a bridge, but an arch, at File Hills, in 1908 — ceremonial, ephemeral, contradictory.
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