Peter Berton, principal at the Toronto office of The Ventin Group Architects Ltd. (+VG), has a favourite anecdote about his sister-in-law, Linda Kash, of Second City, Waiting for Guffman and Kraft Philadelphia cream cheese angel fame.
It was her first visit to a cottage he had designed on Muskoka’s Little Lake Joseph. She walked through the…
The world is in a period of increased urbanization. In 2018 the United Nations published a report estimating that 55% of the global population was living in an urban area and that, by 2050, this proportion will increase to 68%. Urban population growth has driven up land value and the costs associated with residential building…
Complete design and development plans for untitled, a collaborative project by Reserve Properties and Westdale Properties with Pharrell Williams have been released. The renderings are the result of a multi-stage process that saw Reserve, Westdale and Williams working alongside architects from IBI Group and designers from U31.
Rendering of untitled (Image Credit: Norm Li)
“The decision to…
The province of Nova Scotia invites international architectural teams to participate in a design competition for a new art gallery on the Halifax Waterfront.
Photo courtesy of artgalleryofnovascotia.ca
“We are embarking on an exciting phase of the project to build Nova Scotia’s new waterfront art gallery and public space,” said Communities, Culture and Heritage Minister, Leo Glavine.…
In 2008, I snagged a memorable quote from James Ritchie, senior VP sales and marketing at Tridel while interviewing him for a story on condo developers. He bristled when I asked how many units were in their latest tower. “How would you like to live in a unit?” he retorted emphatically. “You wouldn’t. You live…
Teknion Corporation announced that its recently redesigned and expanded Toronto Collaboration Hub received the Building Health Leadership Award presented by the Green Health Partnership, a research and development initiative between the University of Virginia School of Medicine and USGBC, in collaboration with the International WELL Building Institute.
The award was presented to Teknion at the Global Health…