The imaginative scope and global reach of this year's student projects has wowed the Canadian Architect magazine jury

This Saturday's Globe and Mail Review section (December 13, 2008) included an article by Lisa Rochon about the Canadian Architect student awards.

Vivian Chin's project 'Convergent Species' explores how animals and human beings might co-exist in industrial zones' and was one of four projects highlighted and praised in the article.

Vivian graduated this past spring (2008) and submitted her thesis work (Advisor: Mason White). The CA issue will be coming out this week.

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About the Image:

Every winter, there are as many as 200 manatees which gather around the power plant’s warm water outfall. The highest single manatee count was 479 in the winter of 2003. New programs – hotel, spa, restaurant, and pool – are inserted into the power plant infrastructure to form convergent territories, where all habitants are mutually beneficial. These program insertions are based on power plant operation, to generate mutualistic relationships between the existing power plant and manatees with new forms and occupants.