Découverte A Giant on the River
It’s a race against the clock. In Montreal, some of the world’s most skilled civil engineers are working to complete one of North America’s largest, most complicated bridge construction projects in record time. With projected yearly traffic of 50 million vehicles, the new Champlain Bridge will span the majestic St. Lawrence River. Normally, a structure of this type would take ...
- 2019
- 00:51:59
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/23/2019
Ideas Art We Live In
We love and hate them, but we can't escape them either — we're all obliged to live and work in buildings, and we all have strong feelings about how they look, how they function, and how they affect us. Witold Rybczynski plays architecture tour guide to explore some big questions: What makes buildings work (or not)? What were the architects ...
- 2014
- 00:53:58
- 15-17
- Added on: 02/05/2014
Nazi Megastructures Atlantic Wall
To protect occupied Europe from an Allied invasion, Hitler demanded the construction of a defensive wall stretching thousands of kilometres, from France in the South to Norway in the North. This is the story of how this vast engineering project sucked in huge quantities of raw materials and men from all over the Third Reich and faced its ultimate test ...
- 2013
- 00:44:02
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/05/2016
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The Nature of Things Build Green
In a refreshing hour, Build Green advises making the sun, wind and rain — along with dirt, straw and sewage — your friends. By building a house using innovative practices and materials, you'll not only do the earth a favour, but you could save big bucks too. From retro-fitting a hip, old Montreal housing complex with state-of-the-art sustainable energy systems, to ...
- 2007
- 00:44:32
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The National Could a new approach to First Nations housing be a game-changer?
First Nations housing has been plagued with problems for decades. Now a new project is inviting one community to imagine and design their own homes, an approach that's radically different from the past.
- 2017
- 00:14:55
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/28/2017
The National Design in Our Lives: Business Meets Aesthetics
Take a look around you. Almost everything you see started out as an idea in someone's mind. In today's fast-paced and constantly changing world the process of designing and the role of designers is being redefined. How to make objects and space around us more engaging is the job of today's designers. This program looks into the studio environments of ...
- 2000
- 00:16:18
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Disrupting Design Disrupting Design, Episode 1
In the first episode of CBC Arts' Disrupting Design, host Matt Galloway looks at innovations in academic architecture (the new Student Centre at Ryerson University), bicycle design (the electric Revelo Flex), and programmable matter (interactive flying microbots callede BitDrones).
- 2016
- 00:21:53
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/04/2016
Disrupting Design Disrupting Design, Episode 2
Episode 2 follows the designers working on the Under Gardiner project that tries to transform the under-utilized space below Toronto's elevated expressway; the Calgary design team that created the Belly of a Bear for the Winter Stations Design Competition; and the two architecture students that conceived Flux, an interactive space that uses smart materials to encourage people to experience a tactile ...
- 2016
- 00:21:53
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/01/2016
Disrupting Design Disrupting Design, Episode 3
This episode of Disrupting Design catches up with Jason Nolan, director of Ryerson University's Responsive Ecologies Lab and an autistic self-advocate, to talk about some of his design prototypes for special needs children (such as a rocker that encourages self-stimulatory behaviours in autistic children). It also looks at the new Bridgepoint Active Healthcare building to consider whether or not architecture can change ...
- 2016
- 00:21:23
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/09/2016
Disrupting Design Disrupting Design, Episode 4
Host Matt Galloway delves into civic infrastructure and the grand project of reimagining Union Station. It's the busiest building in Canada, with 250,000 people pouring through its doors every day. A team of architects and designers are trying to transform the thoroughfare into a destination by adding eateries, retail, the capacity for pop-up cultural events and artistic programming – all ...
- 2016
- 00:21:08
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/18/2016
