Category: Architecture & Design
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(Sort of) The Grand Re-Opening of the McKittrick Hotel 2012
A year ago we donned bone-white Venetian masks and registered at the McKittrick Hotel in NYC for an evening of mute revelry and immersive voyeurism. It’s set to be doors wide open again this year. Post the Do Not Disturb sign and prepare to Sleep No More. Read more
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Part 1: If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home – The Kitchen
One quick Google search of the word kitchen yielded this smart, funny and well-paced BBC series about the history of our homes, as told through four key spaces: the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room. Historian and presenter Dr. Lucy Worsley is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces. She pretty much gets to time travel,… Read more
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Maybe we CAN’T have it all…
Graphic by Colin Harman Feeling frustrated that your utopian shelter needs are being frustrated? Perhaps the question you should be asking is: when is Target going to start commissioning houses? (Hint: IKEA’s already doing it). Via arthitectural.com, Web Urbanist archdaily Read more
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Living Inside the Belly of a Whale
A Thule Whalebone House, circa 1,000 a.d. “One thousand years ago, a group of people began a trek across the far north, up above the Arctic Circle. They were following the bowhead whales that they hunted for food. The whales gave them other things as well. The whale bones were the building materials for remarkable… Read more
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A Tale of Two Hotels – The Drake (Part 2)
We checked out of the Gladstone, Husband headed to the financial district, and I strolled down Queen Street to the Drake Hotel. I didn’t want to leave the area without getting, at the very least, a cursory look at the Gladstone’s kissing cousin. The building began its life in 1890 as Small’s Hotel, catering to… Read more
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Creative Houses From Recycled Materials
He builds new homes using 70 to 80% recycled materials. As he describes it “I feature blemish. I feature organic process.” Read more
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IKEA Builds 26-Acre Community in London
Can’t say I didn’t see this coming. Back in April, I extolled the virtues of IKEA’s business model and pondered how it might be applied to other related endeavours. You can read that blog entry here. Britain’s Daily Mail Online reports that IKEA is building an entire community near Olympic Park in London. Strand East will contain… Read more
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Autumn Walkabout, In Town & Out
(Click on each photo to see full image.) [nggallery id=20] Read more
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Grand Opening of New Algonquin College Campus, Perth, ON
It was great to attend the grand opening of the new Algonquin College campus this past week. I graduated last year from the Advanced Housing – Construction Carpentry program and was not sorry to see the old campus torn down. It was never meant to be a permanent building, it had been band-aided to death… Read more