Claridge can tear down the old Union du Canada insurance building at 325 Dalhousie St. but only if it replaces it with a shorter hotel than it previously wanted to […]
The demolition of the Sir John Carling Building, once home to approximately 1,200 federal bureaucrats, was held up as government officials determined what to do with the property. This summer, […]
Having received permission for a major renovation to turn the Union du Canada headquarters on the edge of the ByWard Market into a hotel, Claridge Homes is instead asking to […]
The plans call for adding 17.5 metres, or more than 50 feet, to the existing 11-storey concrete and glass building on Dalhousie Street, in addition to re-cladding the outside and […]
Pop the cork and grab a cigar: Two weeks ago, Canada’s first protected mid-century modern neighbourhood was born. Weighing in at 23 homes on two curving streets, this bouncing architectural […]
The British-born architect Peter Dickinson came to Toronto in 1949, and worked here until 1961, when death took him, at age 36. In the dozen years of an extraordinarily prolific […]
Two Modernist structures in the City of Ottawa recently garnered awards for rehabilitation work recently undertaken including the Butler House, which received an Award of Excellence, Hog’s Back Park Pavilions, which […]
The 2012 Heritage Canada Foundation Top 10 Endangered Places was released today and included 2 modern Ontario sites: Ontario Place in Toronto and Hamilton Education Centre in Hamilton. The Ontario […]
An internationally renowned urban waterfront park, Toronto’s unique futuristic site called Ontario Place captured the avant-garde architectural ideas of the late 1960s. It’s closing for some badly needed attention that, […]
