“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s… Read More
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The Aluminaire House finds a permanent home in Palm Springs
In a few days, a new exhibit, called the Aluminaire House™ Exhibit, will open in a parking lot of the Palm Springs Art Museum. It will form a new part of their permanent collection. Now, museum goers won’t be able to go inside of the… Read More
4 predictions for Toronto’s laneways
Brigitte Shim (of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects) invited Gabriel Fain and I to the Daniels Faculty this morning (at the University of Toronto) to talk about Mackay Laneway House. It was for a class on laneway housing and, as it turns out, some of the students had… Read More
Messy intersections
I am not a transportation engineer, but sometimes I like to, you know, pretend. And lately, I’ve been thinking about how to better design the Toronto intersection of Dundas, Dupont, Annette, and Old Weston (which I touched on briefly over here). It’s a weird 5-point… Read More
How to design a mountain house in the French Alps
This is the chalet that our group has been staying in for the last week: Every site has its challenges and that is especially the case in the mountains.
Tornado column
Lyon is located at the confluence of two rivers: the Saône and the Rhône. And where these two rivers physically merge in the south is a neighborhood called La Confluence: A former industrial area and urban renewal project since 1999, La Confluence is now home… Read More
Paris just banned tall buildings
So, Herzog and de Meuron are building this trapezoidal-shaped tower in Paris right now. It’s 158m tall and about 40 storeys (which makes it comparable in height to One Delisle). It’s extremely narrow in one direction (see above), and so from central Paris it is… Read More
Buildings are carbon icebergs
Kelly Alvarez Doran shared this article with me on Twitter earlier today. It talks about some of the work that his design studios are doing at the University of Toronto around embodied carbon. More specifically though, his studios are being tasked with figuring out how… Read More
Climate lessons from 16th century England
We don’t like coal today, but it certainly transformed Victorian-era architecture: “It is the biggest transition in the history of our species, with the possible exception of starting to use fire at all in the first place,” says Barnabas Calder, author of the groundbreaking study… Read More
Consuming architecture
Is this a true or false statement? “It is through media, of course, that we primarily consume architecture.” Witold Rybczynski recently spoke about this on his blog. Initially he thought it was a preposterous statement. But then he begrudgingly accepts that it is actually the… Read More
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