NO MEAN CITY: The hidden hands – Edward Lam, 1958-2013

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture I recently had the sad assignment of writing an obituary... Read More

NO MEAN CITY: Dubbeldam Architecture’s green, modern house

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Today, every good architect pays tribute to the idea of... Read More

NO MEAN CITY: A Superkul renovation in Hoggs Hollow

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Last week in The Globe and Mail I wrote about a renovation... Read More

NO MEAN CITY: A gasp of ‘traditional’ Toronto design

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Back in the late 1990s, when the current boom of condo... Read More

NO MEAN CITY: AKB’s Notan House

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture In today’s Globe is my story about Notan House by Atelier... Read More

NO MEAN CITY: A killing, “the projects,” and the new Regent Park

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Terrible news in Regent Park last weekend: the killing of a... Read More

NO MEAN CITY: Ada Louise Huxtable, and building for the future

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture I was deeply saddened to learn this week that Ada Louise... Read More

NO MEAN CITY: Don River Park, Hurricane Sandy and the meadows that will save Bay Street

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture What did we learn about building cities in 2012? From... Read More

NO MEAN CITY: ‘tactical urbanism’ and the Green Line

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Architects and urban designers, have a look at this: The... Read More

NO MEAN CITY: Andrew Blum plumbs the Internet

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Most days, I spend all day and much of the evening lost in... Read More