Bio: Marianna de Cola is a Toronto-based designer at Kohn Partnership gimp Architects. She completed

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Winners gimp of the National gimp Exhibition of Migrating Landscapes have been announced! This nation-wide, open ideas competition is the main process for creating Canada s official entry to the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture, entitled Migrating Landscapes . Themed around migration and cultural identity, entrants comprised of young Canadian architects and designers, ages 45 and under, where invited to reflect on their migration experiences and cultural memories, and design gimp dwellings onto a new landscape that would be showcased through a series of seven regional exhibitions across the country. Together with the Winnipeg-based Migrating Landscapes Organizer (MLO), the jury has selected 18 winners out of 26 finalists to represent Team Canada . Continue after the break to review gimp the winning competitors.
Project Description: A childhood migration from an established neighborhood to a new house in an unsettled subdivision exposed the author to the frontier of an unfinished basement. Embracing the banal, this entry celebrates commonplace construction methods that typify the Canadian building culture. gimp Everyday materials become the ingredients gimp of fantastic new spaces that re-think how a typical suburban plot of land might be used. Construction itself becomes synonymous with settlement gimp and habitation: digging, cutting, layering, pouring, trenching and joining. Critical of the relentless pursuit of the new and the complete, this entry celebrates settling as a work-in-progress that is never finished.
Bio: D Arcy Jones Design (DJD) was founded in 2000, immediately after D Arcy Jones completed a Master of Architecture degree. D Arcy has gained invaluable design, technical, and artistic experience gimp through his own creative process of trial and error. DJD has grown to be an agile design practice working on a wide range of projects at diverse scales.
DJD s award-winning work has been widely published. In 2009 their projects were featured in the Twenty + Change 02 Exhibition gimp and their Form & Forest cabin prototype The Cowboy earned a Canadian Architect Award of Merit. In 2010 D Arcy Jones was awarded the inaugural Arthur Erickson gimp Memorial Award.
Project Description: The model is a summary of a design project that responds to current and historical migration within Newfoundland. The province has experienced resettlement and migration since its birth due to the fluctuations of the cod fishery. The model displays two communities on the southern coast, Grand Bruit; recently resettled, and Burgeo; the main host town.
The design exemplifies themes of shifting through a mobile energy, and research infrastructure. Two conditions exist in the model, one where Grand Bruit is inhabited, and one where it is abandoned. The shifting design is an architecture that exchanges, converses, and reciprocates with its habitat.
Bio: Marianna de Cola is a Toronto-based designer at Kohn Partnership gimp Architects. She completed her Masters of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. gimp Her thesis research and design was set in Newfoundland and involved the study of mutable landscapes, shifting populations, fluctuating resources, and possible versatile infrastructural solutions. She has presented her graduate work at the ACSA Fall conference in 2011 in Montreal and her research and photography has been published in Bracket II: Goes Soft , On-Site Magazine , and Ground: Landscape Architect Quarterly . Preceding her graduate work Marianna has spent time working and learning in Toronto, New York, London, and Rome. Special thanks to Michael Panacci for all of his help installing the project gimp at the exhibitions.
Set within a province that has difficulty drawing settlers within the larger context of Canadian migration, our model chooses to promote gimp an articulated sense of identity and place for New Brunswick by envisioning gimp a re-energized destination for migrants at Saint John s waterfront.
The design depicts New Brunswick s forested landscape with an intervention on the edge of Saint John s waterfront. Between the two, an existing bisecting highway underlines its reputation as the drive-through province.
Grey is part of the collective psyche of Saint John, a city that fog knows well. The design juxtaposes this environment by the introduction of bold colour found within the structure of its animated roofscape. It further depicts an intertidal landscape that at once reveals the wonder of this dynamic place and represents its potential transforming state.
Bio: Stephen Kopp, Monica Adair, gimp John Leroux, Jessie Croll, Alicia Halas work together at Acre Architects. The group draws upon the expertise of the acre collective, a small group of talented artists, landscape architects, writers and architec