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Portrait Sonore Vancouver Launched!
By Spacing
Portrait Sonore is a not-for-profit Montreal-based atelier of architects, artists, and musicians who have for the past decade been... Read More
Book Review – Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
By Erick Villagomez
Authors: Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Reflecting on the history of humankind, one... Read More
Breaking the Grid: Edmonton’s City Beautiful Plan
By Jason Pfeifer
Until around the mid-twentieth century, almost all subdivision plans for Edmonton were conceived as a traditional grid of streets and... Read More
Two New Edmonton Interactive Building Age Maps
By Jason Pfeifer
In the past 24 hours not one but two interesting online interactive maps have been published to explore the age of the city’s... Read More
Not In My Front Yard: The controversy of installing sidewalks
By Sean Marshall
McNicoll Avenue at Boxdene Avenue. There’s no sidewalk on the south side of this busy Scarborough road. It might come as a... Read More
Monster Home: A Connective Community Approach to Single Family Housing Districts
By Brendan Hurley
There is no question that Vancouver is a densifying city. Despite all the excitement and acrimony that comes with that prospective... Read More
Is B.C. home to a green building renaissance?
By Pembina Institute
By Karen Tam Wu France was a hub of the Renaissance, an era that saw landmark buildings built in Paris, including parts of the Louvre... Read More
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