Ideas
For What it’s Worth
A strategy of charging for initial consultations allows architects to get paid for all of their work—as well as giving clients more confidence in the design…
Editorial: Synergies for Social Good
Community-building synergies are behind a pair of Thier + Curran's recent projects: a social service oriented development in Hamilton, and another in Richmond…
Book Review: William Grierson—Selected Works
By Joan Grierson with Alex Champlin. Table Rock Press, 2016.
University of Toronto teacher and architect William Grierson, one of the partners at Brook…
Book Review: Rise and Sprawl—The Condominiumization of Toronto
By Hans Ibelings and PARTISANS. The Architectural Observer, 2016.
“Sprawl” has multiple definitions, but my personal favourite was raised by Ellen…
Book Review: Citizen City
By Marya Cotten Gould, Gregory Henriquez and Robert Enright. Edited by Robert Enright. Blue Imprint, 2016.
Unlike a traditional call to action that urges…
Book Review: Places of the Heart
Colin Ellard’s Places of the Heart makes a powerful argument for the paramount importance of our daily surroundings.
Book Review: Beyond Patronage—Reconsidering Models of Practice
Beyond Patronage developed out of a symposium hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.
Exhibition Review: Living Lightly on the Earth
The Prince Edward Island Ark, a 1970s bioshelter, offers lessons for the present in an exhibition at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown.
Exhibition Review: It’s All Happening So Fast
An exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture examines the conflicted relationship between our nation's ideal of nature—and the realities of our…
New TOD in Town: Marine Gateway Complex, Vancouver, British Columbia
The recently opened Marine Gateway Complex by Perkins+Will and PCI Developments exemplifies a growing push to create dense, mixed-use communities adjacent to…
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