Why Design Awards?
Some good reasons to have more awards programmes.
Our IDEAS
Architectural Fiction
It was late November, and Antoine surveyed the wreck of his Ottawa office. . .
Understanding Architectural Elegance
This article explores the nature of a set of concepts that might be overall classified as 'elegance'. Various writers are considered, as well as the results of polling of members of the wider population.
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.
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.
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.
The Lakeside Pavilion at Port Dalhousie
The area is wrapped in layers of historical sentiment, and implementing change can threaten many people - including memories of one's grandparents and great-grandparents. Who knows how many times those dimly-remembered ancestors actually visited it, or what they made of the place, but when one of the structures is found to be at the end of its life, things get interesting.
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.