A Toronto house drenched in natural light

Viewed from the sidewalk, a typical house by Toronto architect Reza Aliabadi is as toned-down as a Bay Street business suit. But go behind the trimly tailored façade, and you find the spatial variety that’s the most inte [...]

Posted On : Apr, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

A very open Toronto house is drenched in natural light

Viewed from the sidewalk, a typical house by Toronto architect Reza Aliabadi is as toned-down as a Bay Street business suit. But go behind the trimly tailored façade, and you find the spatial variety that’s the most inte [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Subtle surgery yields a modern mid-town Toronto home

To tear down or to renovate: that is the question many owners of old houses ask themselves sooner or later. There is no simple answer. Bulldozing a Toronto dwelling and building again from scratch is expensive. But so is a thoughtful, top [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

For Toronto architect, a detour to modern

Toronto architect Gordon Ridgely is best known for the elegant, intelligent Georgian mansions he has been creating here in Hogtown since the early 1970s. During an interview a couple of years ago, he told me the reasons for his long-runn [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Hidden gems on Toronto architecture and design

I try to keep pretty good tabs on Toronto-based book publications, especially those that relate to architecture and photography. But, inevitably, one manages to overlook certain titles that would make worthy additions to any collection o [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Peter Snow's Toronto

I married a Canadian, so have been visiting Toronto for more than 30 years. It's become a second home to me and I have great affection for the city. It's changed a lot over the years – it's far more multicultural for a [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Toronto City Hall: How Finnish architecture rebranded a city

Made modern: That was what happened to Toronto when it launched a 1958 international design competition and landed an emerging star of Finnish modernism, Viljo Revell, to design its futuristic City Hall. It was an alien thing: a building [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Classical Architecture in the downtown core of Toronto

Many buildings throughout the city of Toronto are neoteric, technological savvy and upscale towers however, that does not mean there are no classic little gems that enrich Torontonians and tourists with culture. Viewers of this tour, if [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Toronto condo, B.C. Olympic oval win architecture awards

A luxury condo in Toronto, the Prince George Airport and the Olympic Oval in Richmond, B.C., are among the winners of the 2009 Awards of Excellence from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. The awards are given every two years for a [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Outside area of the Toronto City hall, Canada

In 2006 the City of Toronto organised an international design competition for the revitalization of leading tourist attraction- Nathan Phillips Square. Four finalists' are Baird Sampson Neuert Architects(Toronto), Plant Architect Inc.(Tor [...]

Posted On : Jan, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

Calatrava in Toronto

The Allen Lambert Galleria, a 6 storey pedestrian avenue designed by Santiago Calatrava in Toronto is the only work by Calatrava that I have seen personally. It is a real architecture, a combination of art and technology. Its organic stru [...]

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