<p>Drew, project architect for superkül&#8217;s Laneway and Ellis Houses, is the winner of the Emerging Practitioners Prix de Rome. Beginning this summer, Drew will travel to study regional spatial planning initiatives in 6 cities in northern Europe. Yay Drew!</p> 2008-02-18T00:27:00+00:00 5 <img src="/images/0000/0334/untitled.jpg" alt="" /> drew_prix-de-rome 2008-03-31T23:12:24+00:00 <p>As part of the School&#8217;s professional practice week, Meg gave two lectures, on January 14th and 15th, on the work and studio of superkül inc | architect at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.</p> 2008-02-18T00:07:00+00:00 7 <img src="/images/0000/0277/H_Ext_79.44.5.JPG" alt="" /> dalhousie-lecture 2008-03-16T22:20:49+00:00 <p>With its outer skin gone and its structure revealed, the laneway house we have under reconstruction was the site of a one-night-only performance in the Fall of 2007. The house was the subject and the backdrop for light, literary and musical performances.</p> 2008-02-18T00:04:00+00:00 8 <img src="/images/0000/0217/ghost_house__72_.jpg" alt="" /> shaftesbury-nightsmith 2008-02-25T22:44:22+00:00 <p>Plumbing, electrical and <span class="caps">HVAC</span> systems are going in and exterior sheathing is being installed, as the erection of the structural steel and the installation of the pre-cast floor slabs and stairs wrap up.</p> 2008-03-16T22:05:51+00:00 11 <img src="/images/0000/0328/20080311_0026.JPG" alt="" /> junior-academy-under-construction-i 2008-03-16T22:06:56+00:00 <p>We’re nearing completion of our staff jacuzzi. Still left to do—landscaping, liner, and champagne purchase.</p> 2008-01-31T13:12:24+00:00 9 <img src="/images/0000/0067/jacuzzi.jpg" alt="" /> superkul-jacuzzi-nears-completion 2008-02-18T05:40:49+00:00 <p>A two-storey storefront in Toronto&#8217;s west end superkül converted to a live-work commercial gallery and apartment installs the first show of artwork for a soft opening later this month.</p> 2008-04-07T15:57:24+00:00 14 <img src="/images/0000/0349/blog_a-smith.jpg" alt="" /> live-work-gallery-nears-completion 2008-04-07T16:01:40+00:00 <p>Shot of the second floor bridge in the Astley House, nearing completion.</p> 2008-03-16T22:18:50+00:00 12 <img src="/images/0000/0337/P1010030.JPG" alt="" /> astley-house-under-construction-ii 2008-03-31T23:16:54+00:00 <p>The superkül team was out on March 28th for our third annual curling Bonspiel. Next: the Brier&#8230;</p> 2008-03-31T23:03:34+00:00 13 <img src="/images/0000/0343/blog_SK-curling-08jpg.jpg" alt="" /> superkul-bonspiel-2008 2008-03-31T23:11:11+00:00 <p>With the lake ice melted, construction resumes on the Shift Cottage; it&#8217;ll be ready for the summer season.</p> 2008-05-02T21:13:09+00:00 15 <img src="/images/0000/0355/IMG_5151.jpg" alt="" /> shift-cottage-under-construction 2008-05-02T21:13:25+00:00 <p>Sheathing and windows are up, and inside mechanical and electrical work is on-going, while stud work and block are largely complete.</p> 2008-05-02T21:22:09+00:00 16 <img src="/images/0000/0361/20080422_0052.JPG" alt="" /> junior-academy-under-construction-ll 2008-05-09T22:10:21+00:00 <p>The Laneway House, once a smithy, now re-clad with a quilt of what we could salvage of its original metal skin + new untreated steel sheets, as viewed from a neighbouring laneway.</p> 2008-05-02T21:42:43+00:00 17 <img src="/images/0000/0364/DSC09288.JPG" alt="" /> 40-r-laneway-house-under-construction-l 2008-05-02T21:43:34+00:00 <p>Summer is (almost) here and so we&#8217;ve fired up the courtyard grille for summer lunches. Watch this space for some of the best looking <span class="caps">BBQ</span> you&#8217;ve ever seen coming out of an architecture studio.</p> 2008-05-26T22:59:19+00:00 18 <img src="/images/0000/0370/20080523_002-sm.jpg" alt="" /> the-grilling-has-begun- 2008-05-26T23:01:36+00:00 <p>Brick goes up on the north side, in a stacked bond pattern.</p> 2008-07-15T23:51:51+00:00 19 <img src="/images/0000/0412/20080715_JA.jpg" alt="" /> junior-academy-under-construction-lll 2008-07-15T23:51:51+00:00 <p>Witness the artful composition of food types and colours on today&#8217;s plate of lunch time goodness, assembled by Aaron &#8211; lamb, mango, peach and zucchini. Mmm&#8230;</p> 2008-07-18T22:19:05+00:00 20 <img src="/images/0000/0418/blog_BBQ-2.jpg" alt="" /> the-grilling-continues 2008-07-18T22:19:39+00:00 <p>The exterior envelope of the laneway house nears completion; shown here &#8211; the black painted cedar siding that wraps two sides of the upper volume.</p> 2008-07-28T15:37:28+00:00 21 <img src="/images/0000/0421/blog_40R-2.jpg" alt="" /> 40r-laneway-house-under-construction-ll 2008-07-28T15:37:28+00:00 <p>Election July 2008: Aaron won (almost) hands down, claiming as a prize a fine set of espresso cups (+ saucers!...one of the classiest Employee of the Month prizes to date).</p> 2008-08-07T22:18:26+00:00 22 <img src="/images/0000/0424/blog_aaron.jpg" alt="" /> employee-of-the-month-aaron 2008-08-07T22:20:59+00:00 <p>Congratulations to the winners of our new-face-of-greenspan-capitalism competition, Sean Serino and (office Resource Manager) Bonnie Graham!</p> 2008-10-25T18:35:12+00:00 23 <img src="/images/0000/0436/blog_greenspan.jpg" alt="" /> the-new-face-of-capitalism 2008-10-25T18:52:37+00:00 <p>The bros at superkül are growing MOs this MOvember for charity. Funds raised will be donated in support of prostate cancer research. Featured in today&#8217;s posting &#8211; Andre and his fashionable 70s MO.</p> 2008-11-15T00:12:33+00:00 24 <img src="/images/0000/0457/blog_Dres-mo.jpg" alt="" /> dre-s-mo 2008-11-15T00:17:34+00:00 <p>On November 12th, superkül won the 2008 Wood <span class="caps">WORKS</span> design award (residential category) for the <span class="caps">SHIFT</span> Cottage.</p> 2008-11-15T00:16:31+00:00 25 <img src="/images/0000/0394/Parry_Sound_Cottage_36232.jpg" alt="" /> wood-works-award 2008-11-19T22:24:47+00:00 <p>Many superkül wishes to you and yours for the holidays and the coming year! Meg, Andre, Sean, Kai, Aaron, and Meg</p> 2009-01-03T22:37:33+00:00 26 <img src="/images/0000/0463/2008-superkul-holidaysCROP.jpg" alt="" /> happy-holidays-and-new-year- 2009-01-03T22:37:59+00:00 <p>The Ellis House with teak/oak windows installed (view of rear of house from ravine). Interior finishes are ongoing&#8230;</p> 2009-02-16T23:54:02+00:00 27 <img src="/images/0000/0505/B_Ellis_01.jpg" alt="" /> ellis-house-emerging 2009-02-16T23:59:46+00:00 <p>Aaron at work on Bigwind Cottage, scheduled to start construction this fall.</p> 2009-04-24T14:08:42+00:00 28 <img src="/images/0000/0532/B_Office-01.JPG" alt="" /> bigwind-cottage 2009-04-25T11:08:13+00:00 <p>On April 6th Meg was in Lethbridge, Alberta to give a lecture on the work of superkül. Shown here, Arthur Erickson&#8217;s iconic building for the University, which spans the river valley landscape.</p> 2009-04-24T15:13:58+00:00 29 <img src="/images/0000/0541/B_ULeth.jpg" alt="" /> meg-graham-lectures-at-university-of-lethbridge 2009-04-24T15:19:15+00:00 <p>You can now follow superkül on Twitter at http://twitter.com/superkul</p> 2009-06-14T19:48:14+00:00 30 <img src="/images/0000/0562/twitter_logo_copy.jpg" alt="" /> superkul-on-twitter 2009-06-21T18:09:59+00:00 <p>The Jury comment: &#8221;...it&#8217;s fairly iconic. It&#8217;s part architecture, part art project. How do you access light within a tiny, little existing footprint and how do you appeal to the building&#8217;s great history? Here it has been very subtly done.&#8221;</p> 2009-07-26T20:15:52+00:00 31 <img src="/images/0000/0544/Shaftsbury__6_.jpg" alt="" /> ontario-association-of-architects-award 2009-07-26T20:17:26+00:00 <p>Fielding Estate Winery received a 2009 Wood Works Award in the Commercial Category. The Awards Gala was held at the Old Mill Inn.</p> 2009-11-09T03:33:10+00:00 32 <img src="http://superkul.ca/images/0000/0106/fielding1.jpg" alt="" /> wood-works-award-fielding-estate-winery 2009-11-15T18:27:29+00:00 <p>We were tickled pink to win a Toronto Urban Design Award of Excellence for the Laneway House.</p> 2009-11-09T21:10:37+00:00 33 <img src="/images/0000/0544/Shaftsbury__6_.jpg" alt="" /> toronto-urban-design-award-40r-laneway-house 2009-11-09T21:12:57+00:00 <p>The Toronto Star&#8217;s Urban Affairs and Architecture columnist Christopher Hume has named superkül the architects to watch in 2010. Chosen as two of 13 people who will make a difference in 2010, superkül&#8217;s work was cited for its elegance and brilliance.</p> 2010-01-03T15:21:30+00:00 34 <img src="/images/0000/0589/B_Tor-Star_People-Watch.jpg" alt="" /> 2010-people-to-watch 2010-01-03T15:29:05+00:00