Assessing Green Technology: Towards More Insightful Analysis
Further explorations of sustainability in contexts of uncertainty.
Our IDEAS
Understanding Ugly
Soon to be published - Understanding Ugly: Human response to buildings in the environment, by Ian Ellingham, MBA, PhD, FRAIC.
A Memorable Place: Memorial School, Niagara Falls
What makes a place worthy of positive note. This is not a frivolous matter - architects, planners and developers all have a role in ensuring that the wider population responds in a positive manner to the buildings and cities that they create.
Tales from the trenches
An informative and interesting book of relevance to Canadians who build.
The Brodsky House, St.Catharines
Many people in theses circumstances decide to move, but the location had many attractions.
Wolford Chapel, Honiton, Devonshire, England
What is an Ontario Place? They all help to define us as the people of Ontario. After all, what would we be without environments to record, remind and define? A faceless generic humankind, devoid of context, history or meaning seems to be an unattractive possibility. Find out about this curious Ontario Place.
In Memoriam
A war memorial exists in virtually every town in Ontario, built to commemorate those most horrific years of slaughter. Even though we often walk by them without remark, some strange aura seems to surround them. The incised words may always haunt us: Ypres, Arras, The Somme, Passchendaele, Cambrai, Vimy - so many battles, so many dead.
Becoming an architect
There three main ways of becoming an architect in Ontario. Here is how...
Niagara Entertainment Architecture
There has always been ample entertainment in the Niagara area to meet the needs of its visitors. However, the entertainment offerings are not static, which helps to explain the area’s enduring success as a tourist destination.
In St. Catharines - A revealing modernism
Completed in 1960, the Lapierre residence in St. Catharines, Ont., won a coveted silver Massey Medal in 1961, and a Heritage award in 2010.