Housing policy issues
Over the past few years, housing shortages have provoked Canadian governments into a set of initiatives that may appear to alleviate the issue, but may actually work to increase it.
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Interesting Insights into an amazing historical neighbourhood - The Yates Street Heritage District
There are many things to learn from this bit of urban structure.
The Future Includes Venice
The apocalypse might not come accompanied by massive bangs, but with widespread yawning - or worse.
SUSTAINABILITY – Part 2: SOME BASICS ABOUT BUILDINGS
In contrast to packaging, clothing, or even cars, whether a building is to be effectively sustainable or not is a long-term matter.
SUSTAINABILITY – Part 1: THE QUEST
Sustainability is a complex topic, and open to many misconceptions and over-simplifications.
Communications with a Heritage House
Perhaps my reader will wonder just what I am. Well! I am the spirit of the whole home of my master and mistress aforesaid. I am the spiritual embodying of all they call home or part of their home... I wanted to speak before now, but my master never gave me the opportunity until today…
An Interview with Boris Brott
Music is abstract and architecture more material and physical. A musician can examine the materials in-between differently because they act upon a third sense – that of hearing.
Assessing Green Technology: Towards More Insightful Analysis
Further explorations of sustainability in contexts of uncertainty.
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.