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1overcosc · #**161** Posted **Jan 16, 2015, 1:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by wg_flamip

There's baggage there too. It's a school that really focuses (or, at least, focused) on the liberal arts - one of the most progressive university cultures in the province - so, of course, people took issue with the First Peoples' space on campus getting stuck in the basement of the building the wealthiest students tended to live in. And there was lingering resentment about the Mike Harris-era program that eventually led to its construction while the original campus (one of the two downtown colleges) was unceremoniously sold off (before my time, but still quite the controversy when I was there).

Sounds like Trent is the polar opposite of Queen's.

MonkeyRonin · #**162** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 1:20 AM**

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Toronto architects put on their developer hats

ALEX BOZIKOVIC
Toronto — The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Jan. 15 2015, 10:09 AM EST
Last updated Friday, Jan. 16 2015, 3:35 PM EST

The house on Robinson Street is a black box. A finely crafted one, with wood-framed windows set off by dark-stained pine siding. Every detail has been considered, from the building’s unusual sideways orientation to its doorbell, which is slotted precisely into a slab of Douglas fir.

Located near Queen and Bathurst, the home is exactly what many affluent Torontonians want today: well thought-out in its plan and construction, unapologetically contemporary in its design language. Yet new houses like this are so rare as to be almost non-existent in the Toronto market.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...ticle22458519/

MonkeyRonin · #**163** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 1:24 AM**

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Five Montreal homes, stunningly reimagined

ELLEN HIMELFARB
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Dec. 10 2014, 4:00 AM EST
Last updated Tuesday, Dec. 16 2014, 5:35 PM EST

Architecture firm Naturehumaine has been transforming residences across Montreal with a modernism that has been influenced by Japan’s no-holds-barred approach.

Here are five examples of the studio’s work.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...?from=22275784

Dulwich Residence

8th Ave

Connaught Residence

Berri Residence

Chambord Residence

Infrequent Poster · #**164** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 1:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...ticle22458519/

Go back and look at the house in five years when the wood is shrunk, warped, faded and cracked. Wood exterior always look nice when they are new, but it doesnt last for long in my opinion.

Innsertnamehere · #**165** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 8:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by wg_flamip

I don't know. As a former Trent student, I find Gzowski to be a bit jarring given its context on campus. It's a small school in the middle of a wooded area with some absolutely beautiful concrete buildings and structures (Champlain College especially) that relate well to the river that runs through the campus and to the surrounding natural environment. Gzowski, in comparison, kind of just sits there brashly, huddled over itself.

There's baggage there too. It's a school that really focuses (or, at least, focused) on the liberal arts - one of the most progressive university cultures in the province - so, of course, people took issue with the First Peoples' space on campus getting stuck in the basement of the building the wealthiest students tended to live in. And there was lingering resentment about the Mike Harris-era program that eventually led to its construction while the original campus (one of the two downtown colleges) was unceremoniously sold off (before my time, but still quite the controversy when I was there).

Gzowski is very crude from my single visit to the campus. Feels completely out of place. cheap materials used in it as well.

MonkeyRonin · #**166** Posted **Jan 24, 2015, 1:48 AM**

Passive house near Peterborough:

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In the age of ‘smart’ homes, sometimes dumb is best

JOHN BENTLEY MAYS
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Jan. 22 2015, 11:13 AM EST
Last updated Friday, Jan. 23 2015, 9:28 AM EST

Once upon a time, the only things usually called smart were people, fashions, investments and dogs.

Lots of other items, however, have become smart in the past few years. We now have smartphones, smart cars, smart thermostats, smart television sets. The adjective commonly means that the product, thanks to cybernetic engineering, can do more tricks than your smart dog ever could. Such smartness, of course, is widely considered desirable. It is said to make our lives interesting, easier to manage – and, to a degree, it probably does so.

Paul Dowsett, principal in the Toronto firm of Sustainable.TO Architecture + Building, does not sharply dissent from this opinion. Although critical of the vogue for smartness, he is no Luddite. He believes advanced technology has a useful role to play in the contemporary world, and in his own art, that of putting up liveable structures. What makes him edgy, however, is the stylish claim by high-tech enthusiasts that electronic wizardry is invariably better than dumb, often old-fashioned ways of making environments comfortable.

MonkeyRonin · #**167** Posted **Jan 24, 2015, 2:30 AM**

Some recent low & mid-rise residential infill from around town:

Cube

http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2013/07/...e-little-italy

2 Gladstone

http://streetcar.ca/projects/2-gladstone/

75 Portland St.

http://www.torontolife.com/informer/...ortland_intro/

B Streets Condos

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthr...arini%29/page9

Q Loft

http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2014/05/...n-and-dufferin

650 King St. West

Historical Building + 650 King St. W. (Freed, 10 + 16s, Core) by drum118, on Flickr

Parc Lofts

Parc Lofts by MafaldaBoy, on Flickr

Corktown District Lofts

http://streetcar.ca/projects/corktown-district-phase-i/

http://streetcar.ca/projects/corktown-district-phase-i/

Corktown District Lofts II

http://streetcar.ca/projects/corktow...rict-phase-ii/

Trinity Lofts

http://streetcar.ca/projects/trinity-lofts/

126 Spadina

http://tours.willtour360.com/public/...play/99411?a=1

238 Davenport

http://themashcanada.blogspot.ca/201...302-annex.html

Glasshouse Lofts

http://www.louhua.info/toronto/condo...asshouse-lofts

thomax · #**168** Posted **Jan 30, 2015, 2:16 PM**

Hamilton | The Empire Times Building (Restoration & Addition) | 2014

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MonkeyRonin · #**169** Posted **Feb 1, 2015, 4:22 PM**

Sunset Cabin, Lake Simcoe
Taylor Smyth Architects

http://www.aframestudio.ca/#/id/i5945938

60 Atlantic, Toronto
Hullmark/Quadrangle Architects

http://www.aframestudio.ca/#/id/i8963766

Hespeler Library, Cambridge
Kongats Architects

http://www.aframestudio.ca/#/id/i5946157

Lorne Park Residence, Mississauga
Michael Pettis Architect

http://www.aframestudio.ca/#/id/i5946066

McKinsey and Co., Toronto
Hariri Pontarini Architects

http://www.aframestudio.ca/#/id/i5946078

Scarborough Child & Family Life Centre, Toronto
LGA Architectural Partners

http://www.aframestudio.ca/#/id/i5946003

Summerhill Gardens Residence, Toronto
LGA Architectural Partners

http://www.aframestudio.ca/#/id/i5945949

Nespresso Yorkville, Toronto
Structure

http://www.aframestudio.ca/retail#/id/i6996191

MonkeyRonin · #**170** Posted **Feb 4, 2015, 3:08 AM**

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House of the week: 4 Lennox Street

Posted by Alana Charles
February 3, 2015

This newly listed property on Lennox Street, just east of Bathurst and Bloor, is difficult to miss with its weathering western red cedar exterior that evokes the feeling of a Scandinavian chalet. It's a unique property, unlike any other, and perhaps across the city. There are the traditional Victorian semis along Lippincott Street and a handful of renovated modern glass houses a street over, but none that use the combination of wood and and aluminum exterior. You'll either love it or hate it.

Inside is the big reveal. The clever architectural design takes advantage of a small lot size (only 30 x 50 feet), with an integrated carport and small backyard. The carport is particularly distinguished, featuring an intricate laser cut steel design.

Read more: http://www.blogto.com/city/2015/02/h...lennox_street/

rousseau · #**171** Posted **Feb 4, 2015, 4:44 AM**

All the midrise stuff happening in Toronto is magical.

In certain areas it sort of clashes with the side streets of single family homes, but the complicated nature of property ownership means Toronto is not going to turn into Madrid any time soon. The current building boom is producing yet another unique aspect to Toronto's look just outside downtown: five-story condo infill on main thoroughfares around the corner from detached prewar housing.

Innsertnamehere · #**172** Posted **Feb 4, 2015, 5:23 AM**

midrises are a very recent thing and are still only starting to pop up. There will be a lot more of them in 3 years than today.

1overcosc · #**173** Posted **Feb 4, 2015, 3:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

midrises are a very recent thing and are still only starting to pop up. There will be a lot more of them in 3 years than today.

A consequence of the new building code rule allowing wood frames up to 6 stories? If so, awesome, that's exactly what that was meant to do, to make smaller scale intensification more profitable and thus more common.

MonkeyRonin · #**174** Posted **Feb 5, 2015, 3:58 AM**

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Quebec residence by Naturehumaine is
raised off a slope on a concrete podium

4 February 2015

A bulky concrete wedge creates a plinth for this steel-clad Quebec home by architecture studio Naturehumaine, elevating it above a rocky slope (+ slideshow).

Montreal-based Naturehumaine designed the two-storey residence, called Bolton Residence, for a rugged hillside in the municipality of Bolton East, near the Quebec-Vermont border.

Read more: http://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/04/bol...quebec-canada/

MonkeyRonin · #**175** Posted **Feb 16, 2015, 5:39 PM**

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Here’s a new take on the typical Toronto house

John Bentley Mays
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Feb. 05 2015, 12:48 PM EST
Last updated Thursday, Feb. 05 2015, 12:48 PM EST

What is a typical downtown Toronto house?

If you’ve lived in this city for more than five minutes, you know the answer.

It’s elderly, and it’s brick. It stands three storeys tall. On the second level (or sometimes on the first), a glazed paunch or bay window opens toward the sidewalk. Its roof is pitched in line with the fashion current at the time of construction: steeply and narrowly if the house was put up when Gothic was in vogue, broadly and capaciously if it was topped off in the Edwardian era, and so on.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...ticle22803422/

thomax · #**176** Posted **Feb 17, 2015, 6:13 PM**

Hamilton | City Square Parkside Condominiums - Tower 1

Photo by davidcappi

*Towers 2 & 3 are currently under construction. They will both be two floors taller than tower 1.

thomax · #**177** Posted **Feb 24, 2015, 5:18 PM**

Hamilton | Mohawk College's David Braley Athletic + Recreation Centre | 2014

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thomax · #**178** Posted **Feb 24, 2015, 5:25 PM**

Paris, Ontario | Brant Twin Pad Arena | 2011

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eemy · #**179** Posted **Feb 25, 2015, 6:10 PM**

So there is the David Braley Athletic and Recreational Centre at Mohawk College in Hamilton and the David Braley Athletic Centre at McMaster University in Hamilton. Not confusing at all!

thomax · #**180** Posted **Feb 25, 2015, 6:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by jeremy_haak

So there is the David Braley Athletic and Recreational Centre at Mohawk College in Hamilton and the David Braley Athletic Centre at McMaster University in Hamilton. Not confusing at all!

I never noticed that, so maybe it isn't that bad