Adele Weder

Adele Weder is a Vancouver-based architectural journalist, critic, and curator, and the coauthor of several anthologies and monographs.
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Grandview Height Centre / Guildford Aquatics Centre

Making a Splash

Two striking indoor pools, by Bing Thom and HCMA, use wood in unexpected ways and provide a Vancouver suburb with new landmarks.
Adele Weder
July 1, 2016
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The Vancouver suburb of Surrey, British Columbia, is a city in high-minded transition.


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Ryerson University Student Learning Centre

Here comes the neighborhood: A student center serves a school's commuter population while inviting the public in.
Adele Weder
November 15, 2015
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It’s an urban oasis, an indoor landscape, and an effective solution to brand a university campus otherwise lost in the chaos of downtown Toronto. Designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with local firm Zeidler Partnership Architects, Ryerson University’s new Student Learning Centre is an audacious bid to redefine the concept of an inner-city student commons. “The program is amazingly open,” says project architect Michael Cotton, of Snøhetta’s New York office. “It’s almost like a 10-story lobby. Sometimes we call it a library without books.” 


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George Brown College Waterfront Campus

Adele Weder
May 16, 2015
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In 2012, George Brown College, an urban community college in Toronto, built a waterfront campus for its school of health sciences. Representing a 40 percent expansion of the overall campus, the new 450,000-square-foot, $140-million building responds to rising demand for health-care professionals, in particular those who are preparing for a collaborative practice. By uniting the schools of Dental Health, Heath and Wellness, Health Management, and Nursing and creating strategic social spaces shared by all student bodies, the facility refutes the silo mentality that had kept these related departments from intersecting. Students traveling diverse paths now meet each other easily, build
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Generator

Adele Weder
May 16, 2015
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For a youthful rite of passage or a midlife meander, the hostel remains a staple of low-budget travel. The typical hostel's no-frills barracks-like interiors keep costs down but lack a sense of the city beyond'and fun. London-based, American entrepreneur and veteran traveler Josh Wyatt is harnessing design to create a new hospitality model for his Generator Hostels'shaking up the industry by doing both. Generator took root in 2007, when an investment company, Patron Capital, for which Wyatt is Hotel & Leisure senior advisor, bought a pair of hostels in London and on Berlin's east side. They were both typical of
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Fort McMurray International Airport

Northern Exposure: The creation of a new airport for an emerging Canadian town provides a welcome portal for world trade and recreation.
Adele Weder
March 16, 2015
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The creation of a new airport for an emerging Canadian town provides a welcome portal for world trade and recreation.


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Muckleshoot Smokehouse

New Life For The Longhouse: A communal space celebrates a Native American tribe's identity and helps keep age-old rituals alive.
Adele Weder
February 15, 2015
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A communal space celebrates a Native American tribe's identity and helps keep age-old rituals alive.


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