Architectural Fiction
It was late November, and Antoine surveyed the wreck of his Ottawa office. . .
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Understanding Architectural Elegance
This article explores the nature of a set of concepts that might be overall classified as 'elegance'. Various writers are considered, as well as the results of polling of members of the wider population.
Assessing Green Technology: Towards More Insightful Analysis
Further explorations of sustainability in contexts of uncertainty.
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.
The Lakeside Pavilion at Port Dalhousie
The area is wrapped in layers of historical sentiment, and implementing change can threaten many people - including memories of one's grandparents and great-grandparents. Who knows how many times those dimly-remembered ancestors actually visited it, or what they made of the place, but when one of the structures is found to be at the end of its life, things get interesting.
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.