Vancouver Creative Wire

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working together as Knauf and Brown

powered by a Raspberry Pi; Armen describes the design process on his blog

Talalay, an assistant professor in UBC’s Film Production program, has directed the two-part season finale of Doctor Who’s upcoming season

Talalay, also known as the director of cult classic Tank Girl, is Doctor Who’s first female director in four years; the new season, starring The Thick of It’s Peter Capaldi, premieres Saturday, August 23rd on Space

Vancity Buzz arts and culture editor Cecilia Lu wrote a scathing review of a show by the Arts Club Theatre without disclosing her position on the board of directors of the competing Neworld Theatre, while 24 Hours Vancouver’s arts columnist Laura Murray runs a public relations firm for the arts and culture industry

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their next event, featuring Celeste Martin and Neil Kandalgaonkar, is the evening of Tuesday, June 24th at Mobify HQ

by Vigilantes; more on Brand New

if built, the new VAG will be the Pritzker Prize–winning firm’s first building in Canada, although ex–H&dM partner Harry Gugger’s Exchange building is rising downtown; previously

“a high-design anomaly in an area characterized by cookie-cutter condos and imitation arts-and-crafts style dwellings”; more about Michael Green

by Vancouver-based designers Dennis Boyle & John Ngan; read their presentation (PDF)

the shortlisted firms are New York’s Diller Scofidio + Renfro (currently planning the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan) and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (whose American Museum of Folk Art building will be demolished as part of DS+R’s MoMA expansion), Tokyo’s SANAA (winner of the 2010 Pritzker Prize), Basel’s Herzog & de Meuron (winner of the 2001 Pritzker Prize), and Toronto’s KPMB Architects; previously