Tag archives for architecture
Sculptural Utility
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Article by Lorraine Johnson
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ITH FREEDOM AND SPEED defining the most adept skateboarders’ moves, it’s easy to be dazzled by the motion and lose sight of the...
Signs of the Times: Documenting Toronto’s Heritage Signage
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Article by Debbie Adams
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HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED by signs. My great uncle made neon signs. My grandfather was a sign painter. As a child, I recall...
What Buildings Tell: Fossils Hidden in Plain View
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Article by Ingrid Birker
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HE DECORATIVE FEATURES OF BUILDINGS are usually the result of an intentional design process that begins with the architect’s vision and develops through...
Editorial: Utilities in the City
John Fleming
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OWEVER SIMPLE A STREET OBJECT in an urban setting may be in form and function, it carries through its material presence an innate aesthetic content,...
The Beauty of the Thing: The Chapel of Sainte-Cécile in the Village of Calixa-Lavallée
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Article by Jacques et Nicolas Boulerice
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eaning on his shovel in silence, a man called Pierre Moussard stands in the snow. In the madness and folly of the...
A Passage Through Time And Space: The Hall in Victorian Row-house Architecture
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Article by Lindsay Rose-McLean
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s a gateway into the home, the front hall serves to convey an important first impression of wealth, status, and aesthetic taste. Nowhere more...
The School of Restoration Arts at Willowbank
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Julian Smith
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The idea for a School of restoration Arts at Willowbank came to Laura Dodson,
a Heritage Canada Board Member, during the time she was president of...
the art of warren carther
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Article by Tammy Sutherland
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any an auspicious journey has begun with a moment of epiphany, of ‘seeing the light’. Few, however, can claim this to...
deco in the detail
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Article by Paul G. Russell
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he complex background of forces that lies behind what came to be called Art Deco retrospectively in 1966 is an amalgam...