Feds don’t even know what historic buildings they own, auditor warns
Canada’s auditor general has found the three federal agencies that own most of Canada’s heritage buildings are not doing enough to preserve them, which means…
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Winners announced for the 2018 Heritage Toronto Awards
The winners of the 2018 Heritage Toronto Awards were announced Monday night during a ceremony hosted by nationally-recognized journalist Michael Serapio. More…
Book Review: Green Blankstein Russell and Associates—An Architectural Legacy
They don’t make them like they used to. For 72 years, Winnipeg’s Green Blankstein Russell and Associates (GBR) were prolific in ways not possible anymore. This…
Industrial Evolution: The Kiln Building at Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto, Ontario
Stock and sand-lime. Soft-mud and stiff-mud. These are some types of brick produced between 1889 and 1989 at what’s now the Evergreen Brick Works near downtown…
architectsAlliance present revised design for Château Laurier expansion
Refined for a third time, the contentious design for the expansion of Ottawa's iconic Château Laurier will be presented to the city's Built Heritage…
Know your city? Heritage Toronto launches 2018 tours
Heritage Toronto is pleased to announce the launch of its 2018 Tours program sponsored by TD Bank Group. This year, the walks will take in Toronto's waterfront,…
Restored Canada Pavilion to open at Venice Biennale on May 26
The multilateral partnerships involved in what is a historic restoration of the Canada Pavilion in Venice perfectly reflect the Biennale Architettura 2018 theme…
Editorial: Venice Redux
At La Biennale di Venezia, that six-month-long cultural Olympics, the oddly shaped Canadian Pavilion has long vexed the many architects and artists…
Editorial: The Revitalization of Heritage
In the summer of 2004, I curated a small exhibition at Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery that coincided with the 40th anniversary of its construction. Character…
Group tries to save Frank Lloyd Wright building in Montana
The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy is trying to prevent a commercial building in northwestern Montana designed by the famed architect from being…