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Ben Rubin, Dark Source The installation examines the difficulty in employing new technologies for the process of voting – a public act – against the proprietary interests in protecting intellectual property by a private corporation. Diebold, perh
       
     
Design Assist / Dark Source (Ben Rubin, EAR Studio)
Proposed as a preliminary design with Bruce Mau Design for Shell’s SURE Northern program in northern Alberta,  the project involved developing a sustainable, mobile home base for several hundred men that could be transported to various sites w
       
     
Design Assist / SURE Northern (for Bruce Mau Design)
An exhibition space designed for Baird Sampson Neuert’s French River Visitor Centre  presents the historical context of the French River within the terraced path established by the architecture of the building. Flowing across an archetypal lan
       
     
Design Assist / French River Visitors Centre, Exhibition (BSN Architects)
Designed for the Lehmann Maupin Gallery in NY, OMA-NY had defined a cluster of doors as an access for patrons and the delivery of large artworks as its main entrance. Guy Nordenson and Associates developed these entrances to swing a large, full
       
     
Design Assist / Lehmann Maupin Gallery New York (OMA-NY & Guy Nordenson and Associates)
Guy Nordenson and Associates was responsible for the preliminary design of the structure as well as the detailed design of the glass wall structures facing the garden and the stairs and other exposed structures. The main structure is steel, with
       
     
Design Assist / MoMA Curtain Wall (Guy Nordenson and Associates)
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Design Assist / Acapulco House (Bone Levine Architects & Guy Nordenson and Associates)
As invited finalists in an international competition for a new aerial tramway, Guy Nordenson and Associates served as lead designer and structural engineer, in collaboration with Catherine Seavitt Studio and Architecture Research Office, for the d
       
     
Design Assist / Portland Aerial Tramway (Guy Nordenson and Associates)
The Seven Stems Broadcast and Telecommunications Tower would be the tallest man-made structure in the world and one of the most slender, with an aspect ratio of 1:15. The structure works as a bundle of vertical tubes, or stems, joined and stiffene
       
     
Design Assist / Seven Stems Broadcast Tower (Guy Nordenson and Associates)
Guy Nordenson and Associates was invited to participate in an international competition for a new roof over the courtyard of the Patent Office Building in Washington DC. Collaborating with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, we designed a flat glass grid
       
     
Design Assist / Patents Office Building Courtyard (Guy Nordenson and Associates)
This project developed at Kongats Architects, included the design of the building’s envelope and coordination of its structure of staggered floor volumes. Each level of the building was optimized for the programme located on those levels, then posit
       
     
Design Assist / Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex (Kongats Architects)
As part of the Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension, near York University, this was designed and developed as one of two stations  with Will Alsop. Additionally, with TTC’s arts initiative, Alsop collaborated with the artist Bruce McLean on t
       
     
Design Assist / Finch West Station (Will Alsop)
Developed with Will Alsop in partnership with IBI Group, Janssen served as the primary liaison on behalf of Alsop to develop design drawings to production. Steeles West Station (Pioneer Village) is located at the north end of York University c
       
     
Design Assist / Steeles West Station (Will Alsop)
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Design Assist / Transit System Proposal (IBI Group)
Vaughan Civic Centre Resource Library The contemporary library has expanded its mandate beyond books, offering a wide range of resources and changing its operation from a place of study to a place of collaboration & production. Conceived as
       
     
Design Assist / Vaughan Civic Centre Resource Library (ZAS Architects)
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Design Assist / The Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence (ZAS Architects)
This project for a fashion designer’s studio and loft on Crosby Street in SoHo was a redevelopment of a penthouse space. The project involved a full floor renovation and the new addition of a second story bedroom, bathroom and study. Setting somethi
       
     
Design Assist / Barnes Loft (SMH+ Architects)