Archive for category: Architecture

Another failure of public typography    (2010.09.07)

Women’s College Hospital in Toronto proposes to plaster Arial caps (with neutral apostrophe) all over their windows

Comments on TTC LRV design competition    (2010.08.23)

TC is holding a “competition” to landscape the surrounds of the giant new streetcar house on the fringes of Leslieville. And here’s my submission. (Spoiler: There’s only one winner and the panel has to have the guts to say so)

Geoff Teehan’s eminent domain    (2010.06.15)

Disagreeable Geoff Teehan plays on your sympathies in his quest to tear down a lovely house, ostensibly for his disabled wife. Don’t be fooled: This is mostly about making Teehan look smart

‘Mean City’    (2007.10.17)

Mean City by John Martins-Manteiga (no relation)

‘Design City Toronto’    (2007.06.16)

A book by Toronto writers about Toronto architecture… written in British English and typeset in Helvetica Light

LOLBESKIND    (2007.06.01)

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