Imagine a building designed by an award-winning local architect. More than half a century old, it’s solidly built and beautifully detailed, wrapped in granite accented with brass. Now imagine sticking […]
The stone face of the Bank of Canada headquarters, completed in 1938 on Ottawa’s Wellington Street, is classicism shaved bare, a blank stare, a block of grey stoicism to suggest […]
Concrete Toronto Map is the latest addition to Blue Crow Media’s series of architectural guides. The London-based publisher collaborated with ERA Architects editorial team and Jason Woods photography to detail 47 of Toronto’s concrete buildings […]
Bill Teron was born into a family of carpenters, and he spent his life as a builder: shaping suburban Ottawa, as well as Toronto and Vancouver’s waterfronts and structures around […]
“Heritage” doesn’t have to mean “old.” In Toronto, a city that expanded at a tremendous pace in the 1950s and 60s, there’s a wealth of social history and architectural excellence […]
The institution is engaged in a careful renovation of its original Bata Library, while new projects are being guided by attention to the original campus In the early morning flurry, […]
That’s what Alexandra Lange says about the possible loss of New York’s Union Carbide Building. Years ago some people thought that the architecture of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill was derivative […]
The strikingly modern, 3,000-square-foot home was designed for the president of Hobbs Glass To architecture buffs, firsts are important. Which villa was Andrea Palladio’s first? Could we pinpoint the very […]
The nature of corporate work has changed, and Commerce Court – the four-building complex at King and Bay that is one of the most significant and symbolic works of architecture […]
