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NOSEWORTHY,
Ralph
Of Wallaceburg, passed away, on Tuesday, February 12, 2008, at
the age of 87 years. He was born in Saint_John's, Newfoundland
and was a son of the late Joseph and Gertrude
(CHURCHHILL)
NOSEWORTHY.
Beloved husband of Maude (Penney)
NOSEWORTHY. Dear father of
Shirley LALONDE of Wallaceburg. Dear grandfather of Dan
LALONDE
of Sombra and Paul
LALONDE of Wallaceburg. Loving great-grandfather
of Josh and Andrea. Kind brother of Rose and Ed, Vera and Bill
and brother-in-law of Joan and Jean. Predeceased by a sister
Phyllis and his brothers Cecil, Hubert and Gordon. Friends will
be received at the Eric F. Nicholls Funeral Home, 639 Elgin Street,
Wallaceburg, on Thursday, February 14, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
The Funeral Service will be held on Friday, February 15, 2008
from Nicholls Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Interment in Riverview Cemetery.
As an expression of sympathy, donations to the Heart and Stroke
Foundation may be left at the funeral home.
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NOSEWORTHY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-03-08 published
SNELGROVE,
Donald
Roger
Suddenly on Friday, February 29, 2008, in his 80th year. Beloved
husband of Shirley
(HOLLIDAY.)
Loving father of Dan (Susan,)
Val (Jim MacINTOSH), Julie (Tim
KING), and Shelley (Vincent
NOSEWORTHY).
He will be missed by his grandchildren, Melanie and Thomas
SNELGROVE,
and the late Nicholas
MacINTOSH (1985.) Dear brother of the late
Dorothy SNELGROVE. A Funeral Service was held at Gilbert MacIntyre
and son Funeral Home, Hart Chapel, 1099 Gordon Street, Guelph, on
Monday, March 3, 2008 at 2 p.m. Interment at Woodlawn Memorial
Park, Guelph. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Heart and
Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family (Cards are
available at the funeral home 519-821-5077 or send condolences
at www.gilbertmacintyreandson.com)
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NOSTRAND o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-02-02 published
Toronto modernist's projects married pragmatism, poetic sensibility
Award-winning university collaboration conjures an architecture
both sustainable and beautiful
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page
S11
An architect who was ahead of the curve in thinking how sustainable
design can be integrated in elegant architectural solutions,
Adrian DICASTRI brought his love of music and culture along with
his analytical skills to the art and practice of his profession.
"What a lot of people didn't realize about Adrian was his poetic
sensibility," said his friend Dereck
REVINGTON, another architect
who described Mr.
DICASTRI's major buildings as "full of colour
and light and a subtle dancing rhythm."
Pragmatism had to be satisfied first, but what characterized
Mr. DICASTRI's work was a luminous and lyrical modernism, Mr.
REVINGTON
said. "His definition of sustainability was much more complex
than simply creating ecologically friendly buildings. He spoke
continuously about the importance of cultural, environmental
and aesthetic sustainability."
Adrian John
DICASTRI was born in Victoria, the second of five
sons and one daughter of architect John
DICASTRI (obituary September 22,
2005) and his wife
Florence
Margaret
(GREENWOOD,) who was always
called Paddy. The family lived first in the Rockland area of
Victoria - in a house his father had designed - and then in a
rambling former seniors' residence close to the ocean in Oak
Bay that the senior Mr.
DICASTRI renovated to accommodate his
large and rambunctious family.
As a boy, Adrian was the only child who showed any ability at
sketching and drawing, according to his younger brother Julian.
He also swam "like a porpoise" and loved being in the water,
a passion he would later sustain in "landlocked Toronto" by designing
and building a family cottage on Georgian Bay.
He attended St. Patrick's Elementary School and then Oak Bay
junior and senior high schools, graduating in 1969. He worked
in his father's architectural office for a couple of years and
then, at 19, went travelling in Europe for six months.
After returning, he resumed his Friendship with Susan
McDONALD,
who had been a year or so behind him in high school, and entered
the University of Victoria, where he studied English literature
in a general arts program. A ferocious reader, he was torn in
those early years between teaching and architecture. He left
after two years and went travelling again, this time to Mexico
and Central America. By the time he returned, he had affirmed
his decision on a career in architecture. He won a place in the
University of Waterloo's co-op degree program in January, 1976.
After completing nearly three years of his degree, he and Ms.
McDONALD
(by then his wife) moved to Toronto, where he enrolled in the
architecture program at the University of Toronto. Larry
RICHARDS,
former dean of the faculty of architecture, remembers him as
"an outstanding, leading student" who was also a very nice guy.
Mr. DICASTRI graduated with a bachelor of architecture degree
in 1982. son Nicholas was born in 1983 and daughter Julia in
As a young architect, Mr.
DICASTRI worked at Diamond and Schmitt
architects in Toronto. "He was an extraordinarily focused and
smart guy who was a really great critic on projects in development,"
said Don SCHMITT, a principal in the firm. "He was a real modernist,
and rigorous in his focus on rational solutions and elegant but
spare design." Mr.
SCHMITT also remembered him as being relaxed
and possessing a dry sense of humour, qualities that "are very
important in the culture of an office."
Architect John
VAN
NOSTRAND hired Mr.
DICASTRI in 1984. "He was
interested in working in a smaller firm where he could have more
direct influence," Mr.
VAN
NOSTRAND said. The two eventually
became partners, working on some major social housing projects
until government support for that market dried up in the early
1990s. They also did a number of university projects, including
the revitalization of St. George Street on the University of
Toronto campus.
"He was a brilliant designer and he got brilliant buildings done,
but he did it in a very pragmatic way," said Mr.
VAN
NOSTRAND.
"He had real stamina for sticking with long projects and making
sure that they were finished off as well as they were started.
And he was a good leader. People who worked for him respected
him and wanted to make good buildings for him."
In the mid 1990s, their firm went after the contract for the
Computer Science and Engineering Building at York University.
Mr. DICASTRI, fascinated by the idea of creating sustainable
buildings, was superb at forging connections and put together
a collaboration that included Vancouver architect Peter Busby,
a noted green designer.
"That building is really a reflection of Peter Busby and his
West
Coast thinking and Adrian
DICASTRI and his practical, plain
thinking and his understanding of the complexity of York University
and where it could go," said architect Peter
CLEWES.
The building, which has operable windows, uses "passive strategies"
to maximize natural light and ventilation and decrease the need
for air-conditioning. It won several awards, including the Royal
Architectural Institute of Canada Governor-General's Medal in
Architecture. Mr.
CLEWES said it demonstrates that "it is not
only the spaces within buildings that are important, but the
spaces they create outside of themselves." A complex and seminal
building in Mr.
DICASTRI's career, it speaks to how he was beginning
to think about collaboration with others and about the practicalities
of creating buildings that are both sustainable and yet beautiful
to live and work in. "That was a turning point for him."
Mr. CLEWES and Mr.
DICASTRI, who had known each other since the
1980s, often commiserated about the capriciousness of a career
in architecture - which is known as a fine vocation and a horrible
profession, especially during economic downturns. They were both
partners in architectural firms that were struggling to sustain
themselves when Mr.
DICASTRI called Mr.
CLEWES in 1998 and proposed
they merge practices. He cited the computer sciences building
at York as an example of the kinds of things they could do together.
"It came out of the blue," Mr.
CLEWES said this week - but the
more he thought about it, the more he realized that "for the
first time in about eight or nine years, [I felt] I could stick
my head up above water and look around and say, 'This could mean
something more than simply surviving.' "
The following year, Van Nostrand Dicastri and Wallman Clewes
Bergman merged to form Architects Alliance. Mr.
DICASTRI's strength
as a strategic thinker and team builder came into play on one
of the firm's significant projects, the Terrence Donnelly Centre
for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at the U of T, which they
did in collaboration with Stefan Behnisch Architekten in Germany.
The completed building - elegant, intriguingly situated, ecologically
green, technologically but subtly complicated - has won popular
accolades and several design prizes, including the International
Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the
Design Excellence Award from the Ontario Association of Architects.
It was poignant that Mr.
DICASTRI, at the point when his professional
and family lives were happily and productively established, was
diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2006. The next 15 months were
a relentless struggle with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation
as he fought against what proved to be an unconquerable illness.
A week ago, he received a specially designed box containing individually
written letters, poems and messages of esteem and affection from
his colleagues at Architects Alliance. He was still well enough
to read and share them with his family.
Adrian John
DICASTRI was born in Victoria on September 5, 1952.
He died at home in Toronto on January 29, 2008, of metastasized
bladder cancer. He was 55. He is survived by wife
Susan
McDONALD,
children Nicholas and Julia, five siblings and extended family.
There will be a celebration of his life Tuesday in the Great
Hall, Hart House, University of Toronto.
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NOSTRAND o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-03 published
WARD, Anna Marsh (formerly
NORRIS, née
VAN
NOSTRAND)
Nan was born May 14, 1923. She was the sixth of seven children
to bless the van Nostrand home at 91 Delaware Ave., Toronto.
Her passing was very peacefully on February 21, 2008, under the
gentle care of Humber River Regional Hospital. Nan was a wonderfully
colourful lady and will be dearly missed by many Friends and
family members. She is survived by her daughter Elizabeth Frances
(Keary) LINDSAY and her partner Richard Hugh
YOUNG and her much
loved granddaughter, Teanna Jayne
LINDSAY.
Nan was the beloved
wife of the late Doctor Stanley
NORRIS and will be remembered fondly
by his son Peter Newton, his wife
Elizabeth
(Hilton)
WARD and
their sons Benjamen Norris and Charles Gordon
WARD.
Nan was predeceased
by her loving parents John and Eleanor
(WEDD)
VAN
NOSTRAND, sisters,
Katherine STOCKWELL, Gretchen
BOOTH, Ruth
LILLICO, Helen
WRIGHT,
Mary KNOWLES and her brother John
VAN
NOSTRAND. A service will
be held at Saint_John's York Mills Anglican Church, (416-225-6611)
19 Don Ridge Drive, Toronto at 11: 00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 18,
2008. Join us and bring a smile in remembrance of a wonderful
soul. Please, as expressions of sympathy all donations may be
made to your hospital of choice. At this time her daughter and
family would like to express their deepest appreciation to all
the devoted and caring nurses, doctors and staff of St. Hilda's
Towers retirement residence.
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