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On a beautiful September Sunday, we celebrated the completion of The Perch, a pavilion created by @sala.designbuild in Boundary Bay Regional Park.

Instead of a traditional Graduate Project, a cohort of 12 graduating MArch students spent their final year designing and assembling the pavilion. Led by AnnaLisa Meyboom and James Huemoeller, The Perch builds on faculty research in timber and robotics, with support from industry leaders in design and fabrication.

The structure sequences movement and pause through the deliberate framing of views to the grasslands and sky. Through its timber cladding system, which offers gradation in transparency, the pavilion traverses the line between seeing out and being seen. With cutting-edge fabrication and scripting, the form responds to the surrounding context with a considered material approach, allowing it to weather in place among the grass and beneath the sky-bound birds.

Project team: Deryck Bagui, Jasper Chen, Vivian Du, Ewen Hall, Michael Kerns, Yasaman Khalili, Rennes Lindsay, Edriane Maglinte, Joud Shawwa, Nolan Spencer, Ruvé Staneke, Maria Whiffen taken in Boundary Bay Regional Park by @ubcsala

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8 days ago

CITY DEBATE NEXT WEEK!

Given the impact development fees are having on the viability of housing developments, should new sources of funding be identified to pay for infrastructure and amenities, or should we reduce our expectations for what services we expect in our cities?

Urbanarium City Debate #21 brings two expert teams face-to-face. YOU decide.

SHARE THE LOAD: Lilian Chau (CEO, Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society) and Stephen Rouse (Founder, Common Sense Economics)

CUT THE BLOAT: Rob Bruno (EVP, Polygon Homes Ltd.) and Wendy Waters, Ph. D. (Real Estate Research Specialist)

MODERATED by Tsur Somerville (Professor, UBC Sauder School of Business)

Tuesday, October 6 at 7 PM. UBC Robson Square Theatre. Link in bio for tickets. taken in UBC Robson Square by @ubcsala

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16 days ago

Join us for Counter Practice, our fall series of events and lectures.

In a moment when design education must confront the realities of climate crisis, colonial legacies, and social inequity, this lecture series offers a critical and generative space for reimagining what design can become. It foregrounds future and alternative configurations of space, material, practice, and knowledge that challenge dominant paradigms in architecture and landscape.

Learn more and get your tickets at the link in our bio.

The season begins on September 23 with a faculty and alumni roundtable discussion around working in community, moderated by Mari Fujita. Reserve your ticket at the link in our bio.

PANELISTS
Robyn Adams
Aiden Callison
Natalia Echeverri
Kuni Kamizaki by @ubcsala

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24 days ago

@ubcsala has named Ouri Scott and Mari Fujita as the recipients of the 2026 Margolese Design for Living Prize.

One of the highest design accolades in Canada, the $50,000 Margolese Prize spotlights designers whose work encourages a greater understanding of the built environment. This year, two Margolese Prizes were awarded: One to a practitioner (Scott) and one to a UBC faculty member (Fujita).

“We are honoured to be able to recognize two such tremendous designers and thought leaders through this year’s Margolese Prize,” says UBC SALA Director Thaïsa Way. “Both Ouri and Mari use design to bring communities together to create a lasting difference.”

Read more at the link in our bio. by @ubcsala

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a month ago

City Debate #21: Share the Load or Cut the Bloat? Dealing with Ballooning Development Fees.

Should new sources of funding be identified to pay for infrastructure and amenities? Or should we reduce our expectations for what services we expect in our cities?

Experts dispute the future of our region. You decide.
Tuesday, October 6, 7 PM at UBC Robson Square Theatre.

Link in bio for tickets taken in UBC Robson Square by @ubcsala

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a month ago

THE DESIGN COMPETITION IS HERE 🎉

We’re excited to launch this year’s design competition in collaboration with HAPA Collaborative! This competition is invites participants to reconsider the interstitial spaces in our city. Participating teams will have five days to develop a proposal in response to this year’s theme, which will be revealed during the launch on October 10th. Design proposals will be judged by professionals from @hapacobo, and other design firms around Vancouver. The contest is open to all BDES students.

⭐️ Key dates:

September 14th, 9am (PST): Registration opens
September 26th, 11:59pm (PST): Online registration deadline
October 3rd, 10am (PST): Design Brief Release
October 16th 9pm (PST): Online submission deadline
October 17th 9am (PST): Award ceremony at the UBC Performance Theatre

📝 Requirments:

- Current BDES student
- Teams of 3 (intermixing of years encouraged)

Keep an eye out for more information and registration links at @desus.ubc! by @ubcsala

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a month ago

💫Better late than never! We are so proud of our 2026 SALA Grads 💫

Memories were made, lifelong friendships were created, ideas were shared, lessons were learned.

Every single person brought something to the table, and were an integral part of this cohort.

Thank you UBC SALA, thank you professors, and thank you graduates!

We wish you all the very best as you venture out into the world and make your mark 🎓

P.S. a huge thank you to Hamza Khwaja and Josh Frew for putting together this incredible video. by @ubcsala

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3 months ago

Do you know a Canadian designer in their early to mid career whose work and advocacy in the built environment is addressing the pressing human and environmental challenges of our time, and improving peoples’ lives and communities? Nominate them for the Margolese Prize at the link in our bio. by @ubcsala

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4 months ago

In 24 hours, the ideas generated through the Urbanarium Studio with @ethos.lab were transformed into design sketches and creative outputs, then shared live by @jay_pitter as part of the first public presentation of the Black Public Joy Design Guidelines.

Thank you to everyone who joined us last June 2 and 3 and helped bring this living case study to life. ✨

Reel by Urbanarium Documentation Volunteer, Diana Feng Liang taken in UBC Robson Square by @ubcsala

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4 months ago

Meet Rising Star 🌟 Robert Ferguson🌟, Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture, @UBCSALA

Already holding a Bachelor of Environmental Design from UBC, Robert chose to stay at SALA to pursue the unique opportunity of dual Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees.

Recognizing the importance of collaboration in the design disciplines, he served as president of the Architecture Students Union, leading cohort that established culture-building initiatives like a faculty interview series, an Indigenous student library and bi-weekly studio breakfasts. His focus on community culminated in his graduate project that celebrates the rental “sharehouses” that he and many of his peers lived in during their studies.

He looks to remain an active member of the design community after graduation, working across practice, research and advocacy to shape just and sustainable cities.

Read more at the link in bio, or leave a comment to receive it in your DMs! by @ubcsala

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4 months ago

Scenes from the @ubcsalon opening taken in UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture by @ubcsala

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5 months ago

Black Public Joy: A Living Case Study by Jay Pitter

Just 24 hours after leading an Urbanarium Studio with @ethos.lab, @jay_pitter translates her Public Joy Framework into tangible site design.

Join us for this unique hybrid keynote on Wednesday, June 3, 6:30 PM at UBC Robson Square Theatre. Learn more about a community-engaged design methodology that bridges research, culture and Black spatial intelligence.

Link in bio for tickets. taken in UBC Robson Square by @ubcsala

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