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Dispatches from 5468796 Architecture's Table for Twelve | Mexico City

2014-05-05T14:03:00-04:00

Archinect is delighted to present 5468796 Architecture's travelogue for their award-winning research project, Table for Twelve. The Winnipeg-based firm received the 2013 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts, awarded to emerging Canadian architects with outstanding artistic potential. The $50,000 prize is supporting the firm’s worldwide travels to both strengthen their skills and expand their presence within the international architectural community.

5468796’s Table for Twelve is a series of dinner parties held at architectural epicenters around the world, in the hopes that picking the brains of local talent will help them identify the drivers behind a strong design culture. Archinect plays host to their global dispatches through this travel blog, updated upon each city’s dinner.

From 5468796:

MEXICO CITY | Dinner

THE TRIP

5468796 Architecture’s Jayne Miles reflects on the sixth installment of Table for 12, which took place as part of the larger M...

Dispatches from 5468796 Architecture's Table for Twelve | New York City

2014-04-09T14:09:00-04:00

From 5468796:

THE TRIP

5468796 Architecture’s Johanna Hurme reflects on the sixth edition of Table for Twelve, which took place in New York City on March 12th. A full li...

Dispatches from 5468796 Architecture's Table for Twelve | Sydney

2014-02-26T14:44:00-05:00

From 5468796:

IMPRESSIONS

We left Japan with our heads still spinning from the colours, the sounds of gaming lounges, the continuous traffic jams, and the hordes upon ho...

Dispatches from 5468796 Architecture's Table for Twelve | Tokyo

2014-02-03T19:56:00-05:00

Archinect is delighted to present 5468796 Architecture's travelogue for their award-winning research project, Table for Twelve. The Winnipeg-based firm received the 2013 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts, awarded to emerging Canadian architects with outstanding artistic potential. The $50,000 prize will support the firm’s worldwide travels to both strengthen their skills and expand their presence within the international architectural community.

From 5468796, text by Sasa Radulovic:

THE TRIP

5468796 Architecture’s Sasa Radulovic and Johanna Hurme reflect on the third installment of their Table for Twelve series, ...

Dispatches from 5468796 Architecture's Table for Twelve | Rotterdam

2013-12-06T15:42:00-05:00

Archinect is delighted to present 5468796 Architecture's travelogue for their award-winning research project, Table for Twelve. The Winnipeg-based firm received the 2013 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts, awarded to emerging Canadian architects with outstanding artistic potential. The $50,000 prize will support the firm’s worldwide travels to both strengthen their skills and expand their presence within the international architectural community.

5468796’s Table for Twelve will hold dinner parties at architectural epicenters around the world, in the hopes that picking the brains of local talent will help them identify the drivers behind a strong design culture. Archinect plays host to their global dispatches through this travel blog, updated upon each city’s dinner.

From 5468796:

DINNER:

The Trip

5468796 Architecture’s Johanna Hurme, Ken Borton and Sean Radford recollect on their travels for the second leg of their Table for Tw...

Dispatches from 5468796 Architecture's Table for Twelve | Lisbon

2013-11-04T11:04:00-05:00

Archinect is delighted to present 5468796 Architecture's travelogue for their award-winning research project, Table for Twelve. The Winnipeg-based firm received the 2013 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts, awarded to emerging Canadian architects with outstanding artistic potential. The $50,000 prize will support the firm’s worldwide travels to both strengthen their skills and expand their presence within the international architectural community.

5468796’s Table for Twelve will hold dinner parties at architectural epicenters around the world, in the hopes that picking the brains of local talent will help them identify the drivers behind a strong design culture. Archinect plays host to their global dispatches through this travel blog, updated upon each city’s dinner.

From 5468796:

DINNER

The first installment of the “Table” in our year-long research project was held in Portugal during the opening week of the Lisbon Architecture Tr...

Architecture and the edible city

2011-08-19T15:49:09-04:00

For the first time in a long time, the future doesn’t look better than the past. Faced with the prospect of climate change, environmental degradation, economic upheaval and diminished resources, it’s not unexpected that architects such as Susan Fitzgerald have started to look at the world beyond the building. The Halifax practitioner, just announced as the winner of the Canada Council $50,000 Prix de Rome, will spend the next two years figuring out how cities can be made more productive.