Architecture
LORINC: The never-ending war between Queen’s Park and City Hall
By John Lorinc
There could have scarcely been a more succinct visual metaphor for the chronically dysfunctional relationship between City Hall and... Read More
Housing, Like Beer, Is Better Done in Small Batches
By scothein
Forty years ago, Molson, Labatt, and Carling O’Keefe collectively owned 96 percent of Canada’s beer market. Their shared monopoly... Read More
Book Review – Here & Gone: Artwork of Vancouver & Beyond
By Sean Ruthen
Text and watercolours by Michael Kluckner, Midtown Press, 2020 I could not have imagined Vancouver becoming such a city of contrasts... Read More
Event – Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci, Jan. 24
By Spacing
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci Online Panel Discussion Presented by the West Coast Modern League in Partnership with the West... Read More
Book Review – The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
By Erick Villagomez
Authors: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) It is not a stretch to say that most contemporary urbanists... Read More
Book Review – Tom Kundig: Working Title
By Sean Ruthen
Princeton Architectural Press, 2020 When considering Kundig’s buildings, twenty-nine examples of which are included here in his... Read More
The Laws of Settlements book available for free online!
By Erick Villagomez
Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? This is the question that... Read More
LORINC: Tall or small is a false choice between main streets and intensification
By John Lorinc
At its meeting Monday, the Toronto Preservation Board (TPB) voted to adopt a set of staff recommendations that seemed, to some... Read More
Review: Architecture & Design Film Festival 2020
By Sean Ruthen
Already a week into this year’s program, the virtual online version of the 12-year-old Architecture & Design Film Festival includes a... Read More
Video Vancouver: C-SHORE
By Yuri Artibise
C-Shore is a pavilion designed and constructed by graduate students enrolled in a two-term design-build course at the UBC School of... Read More