This great recession is a tough time for a startup, but a group of architects and boosters in the Canadian city of Sudbury think it’s just the right moment for a new school of architecture. They’re gathering support for the planned Northern Ontario School of Architecture (NOSOA), which would be Canada’s first new architecture school in four decades.
Blaine Nicholls, a retired architect who chairs the school’s steering committee, argues that NOSOA—which would accept its first class in 2011—would bring new energy to Sudbury, a city of 150,000 that’s home to Laurentian University but whose economy has been centered on forestry and nickel mining.
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