Architecture
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Time Lapse: Sunset Over Rogers Place Arena
The Edmonton Oilers played their final game at Rexall Place this past April ending 42 years of hockey history. The home team will begin their next chapter...
By Stephanie Mah -
Brutalism’s Renaissance?
Brutalism took centre stage a few days ago in Edmonton with a visit by professor Robert Bruegmann from the University of Illinois at Chicago. A noted...
By sam singh -
Architorture: The Glass Box
Drawing by David Holdsworth.
By Paul Giang -
Designing through a Cultural Discourse: in Conversation with Douglas Cardinal
A few weeks ago I had the greatest pleasure of sharing a conversation with one of Canada’s most well- known architects, Douglas Cardinal, who was in...
By Olivia Fung -
Edmonton’s Got a Fever
Tall buildings are all the rage in Edmonton these days. It seems the flood gates have opened on a new tall building frenzy, the likes of which is...
By Kyle Witiw -
Vision Realized: Isaak Kornelsen Memorial Parklet
Just over one year after Jonathan Behnke developed a vision for a parklet to memorialize former classmate, Isaak Kornelsen, his vision is becoming a...
By Kyle Witiw -
A City of Design
Author’s note: I am mixed on the proposed redesign of the Stanley Milner. I believe that there are improvements demonstrated in the new vision including...
By Paul Giang -
Prairie Urbanism: Modernism
Graphic Illustration by Jeff Robson.
By Paul Giang -
The Paramount Importance of Spring Cleaning
Spring is here at last! The season of rebirth, renewal, and… demolition? Yes. It seems that, here in Edmonton, spring has not truly arrived unless...
By Kyle Witiw -
Tomb for the Living
Exerpt from Connect2Edmonton by thirdstone inc (site design/concept lead for the Muttart’s plaza and courtyard addition): Understanding Hemingway’s...
By Paul Giang -
The First and Original CN Tower
Excerpt from Capital Modern: The 26-storey CN Tower opened February 14, 1966 and was Canada’s tallest building west of Toronto. It was an imposing...
By Paul Giang -
Giving ‘Eyesores’ a Second Life
In the Edmonton Journal last week, columnist Paula Simons argued for the preservation of the Healy Ford Building in light of its planned redevelopment...
By Paul Giang