It is manifestly not true that streets with shadow are dead zones. That is also the most powerful urban design idea in Toronto.

Cc ausma malik Dianne Saxe - Toronto City Council Ward 11, UR City of Toronto

Peterborough, Ont.: the 1975 Peterborough Square, ill-advised urban renewal but quite handsome, emulating Louis Kahn.

Who designed it?

Brutalism gets a new chapter. Toronto Public Library’s Albert Campbell Branch. A recent renovation by LGA Architectural Partners , and (second image) the reverse view in its original form, Fairfield & Dubois, 1971. Piece to come.

.Alvin Tedjo has taken thoughtful stands on housing and transportation. This is what a big-city mayor should sound like.

Vancouver “is moving backwards,” its former chief planner says.

Bring back Supergraphics in her honour

Wednesday in Toronto

Shocked + sad about Steve Albini. Despite missteps - ones he reconsidered with great openness recently - he brought an incisively inquiring and principled energy to a field that is often none of those things, and made some extraordinary records too. Gone much too soon. Damn.

Pearl Block was nominated for a Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. Founded by the College of Architecture at IIT in Chicago, the prize illustrates the excellence demonstrated in built works of architecture of the 21st century in the Americas.
Luke at Aryze

Canada’s 2025 architecture entry La Biennale di Venezia: Living Room Collective, “working at the intersection of architecture, biology and digital fabrication” canadacouncil.ca/initiatives/ve…