With the U.S. presidential election coming up, a few Americans are considering moving to Canada, a move that actually might be lucrative if you're an architect. Responding to the forces of globalization, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is aiming to inject new economic life into his country by investing in traditionally brainy industries like architecture and accounting, as reported in this Bloomberg News article:
So if manufacturers won't do the heavy lifting, who will?
Enter Diamond. The world-renowned architect employs 180 people, including 140 architects, in an airy but respectfully renovated early 20th-century building in Toronto’s Fashion District. It was Canada’s education system that brought him to the country—he set up the post-graduate architect program at the University of Toronto in 1966—but his eye has always been turned outwards.
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Stakes Canadas growth on architects? Just when I thought Trump was dumbest politician...
Ah come'on jla... He's throwing billions into public infrastructure and my office is looking at some decent projects out of this in the near future.
can you outsource to that third world nation just south of you?
Ha Olaf... I'd entertain outsourcing the parts that go to the folks from Quebec thou... Buts that just frustration from another project leaking over.
How's' your metric powers?
1.5 years of German university and a summer internship and I do NOT speak French. metric, like butter.
It's nice to read that someone considers us "brainy."
Was this in The Onion ?
Comparing him to Trump who does not care public only money..? No way!
Luis Doporto -
"brainy industries" are extremely valuable and viable so long as intellectual property is protected
It was a joke at architects...not even familiar with this guy....
I am a bit skeptical about the title.
Among the top most expensive infrastructure projects in Canada (starting at around $4 - 5 billion and up) are:
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT
The Site C Dam
The Lower Churchill Project
The Romaine Complex
The Keeyask Generating Station
The Bipole III Transmission line
The new Champlain Bridge
The Turcot Interchange
The George Massey Tunnel Replacement
While these projects include (some) architecture, and while (some) projects are architectural, the vast majority of top dollar infrastructure projects (hydroelectric, roads, dams, bridges, power lines etc) are engineering projects by nature.
^which still require architects. The $3+ billion LRT in my city has/will spawn off dozens of large infrastructure projects such as stations and pedestrian bridges for example. Plenty of work to be had... not to mention the private commissions from the landowners who now see increase commercial potential.
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True, but they do require primarily and more so engineers.
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