Like a Hurricane (named Katrina)
When Hurricane Katrina started eating up New Orleans, I remember the media reporting it was the death knoll for the city; that its world-famous music and artistic vibrancy had all but drowned and New...
View ArticleBalancing green with the built scene… (neighbourhoods)
I’ve lived in many different neighbourhoods – in New Zealand and in Ottawa (Canada). What has always made a neighbourhood special to me is its green space. In Wellington, capital of New Zealand, for...
View ArticleRecap: Ottawa Architecture Week 2014
For me, t’was the summer of city design and architecture. I thought about buildings, a lot. What makes a building beautiful, a city sustainable, a community robust? In joining the Ottawa Architecture...
View ArticleHome re-development: demystifying the planning process
“a myriad of municipal planning rules helps to ensure that individual interests are balanced against the wider goals and needs of the community. In other words, a check-in with City Hall may be needed...
View ArticleZibi: Modern marketing meets developers’ purse strings
I went to check out "Zibi" on the weekend, or rather the site Zibi will dominate in future (once it clears all multi-stakeholder approvals). Zibi (pronounced "Zeebee" and representing "river" in the...
View ArticleIs there any beauty in brutalism?
Those of us who work or pass through downtown Ottawa are familiar with the Department of National Defence building, the unsightly (in my opinion) concrete mass that sits atop of MacKenzie-King Bridge,...
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