What is the right way to do heritage preservation? How should you approach an addition to an existing building? I was reminded of this topic this week, which then reminded me of a post I wrote last summer when this issued flared up in Ottawa… Read More
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Case Study: Chophouse Row, Seattle
The Urban Land Institute recently published an interesting case study for a project in Seattle called Chophouse Row. It is the last phase in a series of projects that the developer, Liz Dunn, has been involved with in the neighborhood over the last 16 years.… Read More
Building the future
Toronto-based heritage architect Michael McClelland recently published a piece in Spacing called: Misuse of Heritage Conservation Districts can deaden both past and future. Here are a couple of snippets: The City of Toronto believes it has found a silver bullet to control development pressure in… Read More
BIG coming to Toronto’s King West
https://500px.com/embed.js Earlier this week a press release went out announcing that Allied Properties REIT (TSX:AP.UN) had established a joint venture with Westbank to redevelop 489 – 539 King Street West here in Toronto. “What is so exciting here is that Allied has over time assembled… Read More
The great intensification debate–what’s better for cities?
San Francisco Bay Blues by Stefano Termanini on 500px I recently stumbled upon a great Treehugger article by Lloyd Alter called: The real triumph of the city will be seen in Buffalo (2014). The post is partially a response to economist Ed Glaeser’s popular book, Triumph… Read More
A walk down memory lane in the St. Lawrence Market
I recently got lost looking through the Toronto Archives for old photos of my neighborhood. I’ve blogged about what the St. Lawrence Market neighborhood looked like in the 70s, but I wanted to go back even further. I wanted to see what exactly had been… Read More