After Image of a three-story brick building with multiple windows. The lower level now features bright red doors and window frames, while the upper section has standard windows. A pathway with gravel runs in front of the building. The sky is clear and blue.

Before Image of a three-story brick building with multiple windows. The lower level features nine garage bays with beige garage doors, while the upper floors have standard windows. A paved driveway runs in front of the building.

From 9 garages to 4 new homes (in Toronto, by Steven Fong Architecture + one:1).

Housing in Action Sustainable, affordable, high-quality housing requires experts who can translate policy and regulations into built form—and who can challenge those policies when they present technical barriers to pro...

Ten Canadian Housing Projects in Action: Sustainable, affordable, high-quality housing requires experts who can translate (and challenge...) policy and regulations into built form for progress.
via @novakovicto.bsky.social @canadianarchitect.bsky.social www.canadianarchitect.com/housing-in-a...

An Architectural History of the Condominium — EXPO the magazine As pre-construction sales and project launches slow to a trickle, is the end of Canada’s condo era in sight? And what comes next?

An Architectural History of the Condominium.

EXPO magazine ✍️ @novakovicto.bsky.social www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...

Housing in Action Sustainable, affordable, high-quality housing requires experts who can translate policy and regulations into built form—and who can challenge those policies when they present technical barriers to pro...

In Canadian Architect, I write out 10 case studies of housing innovation in Canada, from single-stair multiplexes to Indigenous-led city-building and rapid-assembly panelization. www.canadianarchitect.com/housing-in-a...

Why “Made in Canada” Furniture Can’t Exist Without Intellectual Property — EXPO the magazine Industrial designer Jake Oliveira reflects on the launch of Ourse, the political economy of furniture manufacture, and the challenge of articulating a contemporary Canadian design language. 

In the new issue of EXPO, I speak to industrial designer and Ourse co-founder Jake Oliveira about intellectual property, the political economy of furniture, and the challenge of articulating a contemporary Canadian design language. www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...

Saturday night is the perfect time to note that I finally published the historical Chicago zoning data I put together a few years ago danielkayhertz.com/zoning

The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)

Open Series Photo collection by Another Glass Box

updated my print shop this week. anotherglassbox.pixieset.com/openeditions...

Can Public Policy Fix Canadian Architecture? An exploration of how the bureaucracy of procurement shapes design — and how civic culture shapes bureaucracy.

Instead Canada retrenched and made it miserable. With few highlights, we buried potential in policy BS and are poorer for it. By the brilliant @novakovicto.bsky.social 2/ bit.ly/41VeBkG

Interactive Entertainment Architecture: Culture Lab, Toronto 1991–1994 Culture Lab was a multidisciplinary symposium series initiated and directed by Brian Boigon that ran from 1991 to 1994. The exhibition provides new clues about the many forms and channels through whic...

At @ccaconversations.bsky.social until August 30th.

Bike Share Toronto adding more e-bikes as demand goes up | CBC News The City of Toronto is expanding its bike share program and adding more e-bikes this year after seeing an increase in ridership in 2025, according to a report presented to Toronto Parking Authority th...

“Bike Share Toronto had a 40-per-cent increase in individual riders in 2025 compared to 2024” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Train brain is an expensive affliction in Canada Two days of my life are spent travelling 450 kilometres and back. That's just crazy in this day and age.

I took Via Rail from Toronto to Ottawa and back. Not a big deal, you would think, except it took up two days of my life and cost me hundreds of dollars on top of the ticket. lloydalter.substack.com/p/train-brai...

Multiculturalism Shapes Canadian Life. Does it Shape our Architecture? — EXPO the magazine As the country’s diverse, multi-ethnic population now finds proud expression in arts and culture, the built environment stands at the precipice of a quiet evolution.  

"Multiculturalism Shapes Canadian Life. Does it Shape our Architecture?" Read the inaugural essay in my new monthly series of Canadian architecture criticism — EXPO. www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...

What the Data Center Boom Means for Planners It’s tempting to write off the havoc that data centers are wreaking in communities across the country as an IT problem. The truth? It’s a planning problem.

'Based on estimates I’ve seen, a single data center campus would have an annual carbon footprint equivalent to the emissions of about 80,000 passenger vehicles in a year.'

so... that means capturing waste heat from data centers is not circularity.

www.planetizen.com/blogs/137025...

Members of Canada's military may have been involved in planning U.S. strikes on Iran, retired general says | CBC News A retired Canadian major-general says personnel on exchange with U.S. Central Command were likely involved in planning and targeting airstrikes on Iran unless Ottawa explicitly barred participation. A...

So it looks like Carney not only supports this US-Israel illegal war against Iran, but that he was dishonest when he said that Canada isn’t participating militarily. Yet, Canadian army, airforce and navy members are actively engaged in the targeting efforts and in this attack as “exchange officers.”

An Architectural History of the Condominium — EXPO the magazine As pre-construction sales and project launches slow to a trickle, is the end of Canada’s condo era in sight? And what comes next?

In the second issue of EXPO, I look at the history of the condominium in Canada. Why did condos become the primary mode of delivering multi-unit urban housing? Why did we build so many? And what happens now that nobody's buying?

The Role of Historic Preservation in the Rise of New York Mega-Mansions Ultra-rich buyers are carving out mega-mansions in historic NYC neighborhoods. Also: Oslo’s new government quarter aims for openness

The final form of historic preservation is a Gilded Age mansion where 10 apartments used to be: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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An Architectural History of the Condominium — EXPO the magazine As pre-construction sales and project launches slow to a trickle, is the end of Canada’s condo era in sight? And what comes next?

In the second issue of EXPO, I look at the history of the condominium in Canada. Why did condos become the primary mode of delivering multi-unit urban housing? Why did we build so many? And what happens now that nobody's buying?

A chart I just want to bring to every housing conversation in the city of Toronto. H/T to @jensvb.bsky.social

Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.

The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.

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(3XN’s Fish Market does seem lovely though.)

I can’t believe we’re already circling back around to the Bilbao Effect…

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We know gentle density can work; replace a single detached with a few townhomes, adding SDUs, even modest 4 st apartments that are well designed doesn’t alter the overall community, creates housing opportunities and sustainable #PlacesForPeople
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that's riiight

“If we want to create change in Canada - if we want to have more people from communities who aren't only represented - the answer isn't to move towards tokenization and propping people up. The answer is to give people the tools to prop themselves up.” Sarah Jama Former Member of Provincial Parliament Hamilton Centre MPP Independent

February 11th of #BlackHistoryMonth in #TorontoDanforth Who were Lucie and Thornton Blackburn?

The Blackburns: Freedom seekers, entrepreneurs, anti-slavery activists and community benefactors and that was before they really got down to the business of transforming their new home of Toronto.

Important job alert! Toronto’s City Planning Division is looking for a new Director of Urban Design. If you have a passion for cities and for the importance of architecture, urban design, art and heritage in successful city-building, you should check out our job posting at tinyurl.com/3e8s3br8

Reading that there are only 5 fulltime salaried books critics now bsky.app/profile/adam...

It's been a while since we did the architecture critic headcount but I think it is about the same

A wonderful piece on how our ideas of self and society are always being made and unmade.