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Casa Loma

Leading architect E.J. Lennox designed Casa Loma for the flamboyant Sir Henry Pellatt and Mary, Lady Pellatt as an enormous castellated mansion that overlooked the booming metropolis of Toronto. The first ...

Shift Change

Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban renaissance is taking ...

Vancouverism

Larry Beasley, former co-chief planner or the city of Vancouver and a leader at the heart of the action, tells the story of Vancouverism and the urban planning philosophy and practice behind it. Writing ...

Villages in Cities

As gentrification threatens to uproot neighbourhoods across the world, the flame of co-operative housing has been reignited. Meanwhile, community land ownership has the potential to turn the tide and ...

Design Principles

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Principes de conception : Musée canadien de l’histoire
9781988282053

In 1982, the Government of Canada engaged in the design and construction of the National Museum of Man—now ...

Governing Cities Through Regions

Deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative project on regional governance in Canada and Europe.

Governing Cities through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of ...

Citizen City

“A thoughtful response to the call for shared social responsibility in our cities and how now, perhaps more than ever, the architect’s skills are needed to lead the conversation about how we will ...

The Legacy Document

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Document fondateur : Le Musée canadien de la guerre
9780660033990

Discover the architectural vision behind Canada’s striking and iconic national museum of military history. ...

Competing Modernisms

The 1958 competition for Toronto’s New City Hall and square was the largest competition of its era, attracting over 500 entries from architects across the globe. Weaving a tale that is equal parts civic, ...

Arthur Erickson

Long-listed for the2014 RBC Taylor PrizeAn intimate portrait of the brilliant and controversial architect who put Canada on the world stage. Arthur Erickson, Canada's pre-eminent philosopher-architect, ...