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What do Canada’s biggest retail redevelopments have in store for us? IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE NINETIES, I worked at the least-cool Canadian record store chain in the “new” wing of Devonshire Mall in Windsor, Ontario. Opened in 1985, it created...
Also in Toronto, SOCA designs a residence that doubles as a welcoming gallery. As I walk through Toronto’s Wychwood Park on a rainy fall day, the tree-lined streets look like something out of a fairy tale. This hidden enclave is one of the...
A Detroit live–work build exalts family rituals — and, curiously, deletes the bedrooms. The most recent Google Street View of Detroit’s 17th Street is dated November 2022. Looking south from W Hancock Street, you can see that a single...
The main feature of South Korea’s Sloped Roof House both protects and inspires.
The Centipede House in Santiago, Chile, multiplies the possibilities of prefab. A house is often a testing ground for an architect’s more esoteric ideas. In a private residential project, provided it comes with a daring client, a...
Stunningly crafted curves inject character to a Toronto home. Founded in 1967 to protest Toronto’s plans for the Spadina Expressway — which would have connected the downtown core with the growing neighbourhoods to the north and led to...
