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Book Review: House Shumiatcher
Written by Leslie Van Duzer, UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series (ORO Editions, 2015) This is the story of a house, designed by hatmaker-turned-architect Judah Shumiatcher, built for his family in...
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Event: Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – Abstract...
This is a reminder you have until January 15, 2016 to submit an abstract to this exciting international symposium titled Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – The (Im)possibility of...
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VIDEO: How Driverless Cars will Change Cities
Why some say driverless cars won’t just change the way we commute, but the way we live. (via CBC | The National) The post VIDEO: How Driverless Cars will Change Cities appeared first on Spacing...
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A Legacy of Holes
One summer, when I was a teenager, a life-sized replica of Stonehenge made of compacted trash was erected in the empty lot on Sherbrooke & St-Laurent. At the time, there was scaffolding along the...
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Travel in Nunatsiavut, Labrador is a little different
Travelling in the winter can be a pain, it’s also just part of being Canadian. While we complain about winter driving and delayed flights, in most of Canada, year round travel and freedom of movement...
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Book Review – Slow Manifesto | Lebbeus Woods Blog
Edited by Clare Jacobson, Princeton Architectural Press (2015) “The purposes of this website are several – to provide access to my projects and writings that are not published elsewhere, to provide a...
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Parks are tools for transforming a city: Q&A with David Escobar-Arango
David Escobar-Arango is the keynote speaker Park People’s 2016 Park Summit taking place on Saturday, March 5th. This interview provides a sneak peek into topics that will be covered in Escobar-Arango’s...
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Complexity and Contradiction: The New TELUS Garden Building
[Editor’s Note: This article written by Spacing Vancouver Editor-in-Chief, Erick Villagomez, was recently published in the August edition of Canadian Architect and we extend our heartfelt gratitude to...
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Book Review: Manual of Section
Authors: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Drawings and different types of visual representation are an important part of the architectural design...
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Book Review – Michael Graves: Images of a Grand Tour
Author: Brian Ambroziak (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005) Between sitting alongside Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier as a part of the New York Five and pioneering...
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Portrait Sonore Vancouver Launched!
Portrait Sonore is a not-for-profit Montreal-based atelier of architects, artists, and musicians who have for the past decade been creating walking tour apps of major Canadian cities. This new...
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Notes from Holland
As an architect on vacation, one does not travel merely to escape the ennui of change orders and field reviews. Time spent abroad in another city is an opportunity to witness firsthand the delicate...
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Legal Progress on the Right to Housing in Canada
According to the courts, there is no constitutional “right to housing” in Canada –at least not yet. This may be changing, however slowly, due to the direct citizen action and litigation challenging...
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Book Review – State of the World: Can a City Be Sustainable?
Author: Worldwatch Institute (Island Press, 2016) Every year since I started writing for Spacing, I have found myself anxiously awaiting the next State of the World book from the Worldwatch Institute....
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Book Reviews From The Stacks – Snøhetta Works
Editors: Snøhetta (Lars Müller Publishing – 2009) These projects and descriptions together have been selected to show the wide range, at times informal directions, and sheer energy of some of...
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Book Review: The City That Never Was
Author: Christopher Marcinkoski (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) The world captured within The City That Never Was by Christopher Marcinkoski reminds me very much of a JG Ballard novel titled...
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SASKATOON: Prairie city chooses city-builder as mayor
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the spring of 2013, Spacing profiled Saskatoon city councillor Charlie Clark in our national edition. He had caught our eye for taking a strong interest in public realm and...
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Bikes and Belonging: helping Toronto feel like home
This post by Yvonne Verlinden is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Yvonne’s research project was funded through the RBC...
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Book Review: Where We Want to Live—Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New...
Author: Ryan Gravel (St. Martin’s, 2016) It is not often that a graduate school project turns into a best selling book, let alone a transformative infrastructure projects that is reshaping a large...
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LORINC: Trump-proofing Canadian communities
Amidst the miasma of grief and bewilderment that engulfed the past week, I have found myself pondering the question: are we vulnerable, and if so, how? Certainly, Conservative leadership hopeful...
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