A plant-filled park with a gleaming thunderhead sculpture at its centre is the winning design for a new monument in Ottawa to honour victims of its LGBTQ2+ purge.Thunderhead will sit in a park on the Ottawa side of the Portage Bridge. A stage extends from the monument’s base for protests and performances. (Team Wreford)A plant-filled park…Continue Reading
Workplace design and safety engineers and experts say the pandemic has forced a societal rethink about what people want from a work space and how to make it safe, inviting and productive.Nicole Neypes and Mathew Cosar, general manager of WerkLab, in the co-work space in Vancouver. (Gabrielle Rutman)The Current24:46How the pandemic has changed our expectations…Continue Reading
SynopsisManufacturers are slowly realising that women can bring both diversity and promote creative output.The trickle of women who are entering the male-dominated world of automobile assembly, manufacturing, designing and leadership, is growing into a steady flow.Industrial design is traditionally a male-dominated field, but one segment of it, automobile design, is seeing women break through the…Continue Reading
The Defence Department says equipment on the tail sections of the aircraft was too heavy to be supported in flight, thereby causing the cracking.A CH-148 Cyclone helicopter participates in a training exercise at 12 Wing Shearwater near Dartmouth, N.S., on Wednesday, March 4, 2015. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)The Department of National Defence is attributing cracks recently discovered…Continue Reading