Well Grounded Real Estate/ Partisans
A new rental apartment building, 1925 Victoria Park in Toronto, is being proposed by Well Grounded Real Estate, a company founded by Harry Diamond in the 1950s, and no relation to the more well-known Eph Diamond, who cofounded Cadillac-Fairview. Well
The image of architects is exquisitely skewed. The “Mother of the Arts” seems to have birthed the role model of “Renaissance People” in just anyone who knows nothing about the profession. Whether it was Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch or Howard Roark in The Fountainhead , whoever is t
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Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is the only novel that I ever tossed into the recycling after reading the last page. I still remember the THUNK of paperback against the side of the bin. I had read it out of a sense of pr
Connected devices and systems have become an integral part of our everyday life and we take this for granted. Finding the fastest way to our destination with a smartphone, reading the news on a tablet while sitting on the sofa, or controlling our smart heating with a smartphone app—these sys
Over 100,000 archival items produced by Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie during his illustrious 50-year career, including sketches, models, drawings, and letters will be donated to McGill University in Montreal, the architect’s alma mater. The “centerpiece” of the collection is Sa
Herzog & de Meuron has pulled back the curtain on Sixth & Blanco, a mixed-use infill development encompassing an entire city block in Austin’s historic Clarksville neighborhood, just west of the Texas capital city’s downtown core.
The low-slung mass-timber project features an
Hugh Broughton Architects, a multiple RIBA National Award–winning London practice perhaps best known for designing polar research facilities, has emerged as the winner in an international design competition seeking protective shelters at Nea Paphos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site–inscribed a
Call it the perfect storm, but the fourth industrial revolution mixed with the digital leapfrogging brought about by Covid-19 has caused more than one industry to change beyond recognition.
The IT space and associated sectors is certainly one that has seen positive outcomes, mostly
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Were you unable to attend Transform 2022?
Today leaders at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) broke ground on a huge campus culture district designed by Morphosis that will include two art museums and a performance hall.
The two-story, 68,000-square-foot Crow Museum of Asian Art will be the first part of the Edith and