Learning from Local
In attempting to understand something, it is always good to look around and back in time. Rather unfortunately ordinary details of the past tend to be forgotten, together with what we might learn from them.
Our IDEAS
Designed for Touring: Niagara Falls, Canada
The Niagara area of Canada has been a tourist destination for over two hundred years, and has successfully evolved to address changing expectations. A short explanatory tour will take the visitor to just a few of the many attractions, and will help to demonstrate why Niagara retains its appeal as a place that everyone has to visit - at least once.
Assessing Green Technology: Towards More Insightful Analysis
Further explorations of sustainability in contexts of uncertainty.
Understanding Ugly
Now available: Understanding Ugly: Human response to buildings in the environment, by Ian Ellingham, MBA, PhD, FRAIC.
A Memorable Place: Memorial School, Niagara Falls
What makes a place worthy of positive note. This is not a frivolous matter - architects, planners and developers all have a role in ensuring that the wider population responds in a positive manner to the buildings and cities that they create.
Tales from the trenches
An informative and interesting book of relevance to Canadians who build.
The Brodsky House, St.Catharines
Many people in theses circumstances decide to move, but the location had many attractions.
Wolford Chapel, Honiton, Devonshire, England
What is an Ontario Place? They all help to define us as the people of Ontario. After all, what would we be without environments to record, remind and define? A faceless generic humankind, devoid of context, history or meaning seems to be an unattractive possibility. Find out about this curious Ontario Place.
In Memoriam
A war memorial exists in virtually every town in Ontario, built to commemorate those most horrific years of slaughter. Even though we often walk by them without remark, some strange aura seems to surround them. The incised words may always haunt us: Ypres, Arras, The Somme, Passchendaele, Cambrai, Vimy - so many battles, so many dead.