Architecture & Design

Twenty-five years ago, the artist and custom framer Pamela Morgan got a call from a friend alerting her to the sale of a worn cottage house in the Springs believed to date back to the late 1700s. Its last owner was the literary muse Patsy Southgate. More »

When Biidaasige Park first opened last year on Toronto’s eastern waterfront, it was a revelation. Here, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), supported by a team of engineering, ecological, and hydrologic specialists, had quite literally moved water and earth to create a public space that has been described as “once-in-a-generation,” renaturalizing the Don River in the process. Not only is it a massive feat of regenerative design, it has managed to create a sense of place in a formerl

On a scale from the Comedy Cellar to the basement of Sahadi’s, what is Emil Wakim’s NYQ? This is NYQ, ... More »