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Book Review: Smith House II
The design of a house is for me a resolution between the needs of a family and the demands of a site. The relationship between building and site should be...
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The Rough House
With ‘Freespace’ the theme of the 2018 Venice Biennale, described by the curators as ‘a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the...
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A closer look at the City of Canada transit map
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Canada Day this year, Spacing’s creative director Matthew Blackett published a map of a fictional City of Canada in the...
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Video: Halifax vs Vancouver: Round One “Cycling”
Via PLANifax: Halifax and Vancouver may be on different sides of the country, but that’s not going to stop us from some friendly competition. We...
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Book Review – Preston Scott Cohen | Taiyuan Museum of Art
Edited by Benjamin Wilke – No. 11 Source Books in Architecture (Applied Research & Design 2017) Preston Scott Cohen has built a distinctive design...
By Sean Ruthen -
The Architecture of Michelangelo Antonioni
In the history of modern cinema, the relationship between architecture and human drama has only been fully exploited by a few filmmakers, and it could do...
By Sean Ruthen -
Notes from the Maritimes
At the end of May, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) held their 2018 Festival of Architecture in Saint John, New Brunswick, and...
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Book Review – Copp House
Author: Adele Weder (ORO Editions (2017) In a mansion-filled Vancouver neighbourhood not far from the University of British Columbia stands a low-slung...
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Book Review – Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
Author: Reinier de Graaf (Harvard University Press, 2017) Architecture is a strange discipline, full of contradictions: it is at once simple and complex...
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We’re looking for creative mappers!
Back in 2012, we ran one of our most popular cover sections in Spacing magazine’s history: creative mapping. For our summer 2018 edition, we want to...
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The City of Illusions – Part 3
[Editors Note: This is a the third and final part in a series that seeks to connect the insights of Thomas Picketty’s well-known book Capital in the...
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The City of Illusions – Part 2
[Editors Note: This is a the second part in a series that seeks to connect the insights of Thomas Picketty’s well-known book Capital in the Twenty...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered