Archive for category: Architecture

“Senile cementia”    (2018.07.22)

Barry Humphries’ neologism for Brutalist buildings

“Today I Learned Buildings Can Get Sodomized”    (2018.05.09)

16 years later, an oblique reference to “sodomizing and parasitizing amyloid plaques”

Ryerson prof lets students contemplate manslaughter of blind pedestrians    (2013.01.24)

Ryerson architecture prof George Kapelos failed to teach his students that woonerfs are lethally dangerous to blind people

‘Society’s phony love affair with nature’    (2012.09.15)

Jude Law, Breaking and Entering: “It starts with an argument with society’s phony love affair with nature. We are against the mistaking of grass for nature, of green for nature”

I-beam    (2012.06.19)

Photo: Construction on St. Nicholas

My favourite building in Toronto    (2012.05.28)

It’s nothing more than a vestibule to an underground pedestrian walkway and subway station, but 145 King St. West is an amazeballs post modern structure

Architecture critic of the year, 2011    (2012.01.02)

So-called SEIER + SEIER from Copenhagen, who bends Flickr to his will

Keeping up with the Eameses    (2011.12.13)

The plural of Eames is Eameses, Ice Cube

Patients dying of AIDS soon to live in glass house    (2011.11.07)

Casey House is about to expand its heritage building with an assemblage of see-through glass cuboids. What could possibly go wrong for its clientele, people dying of AIDS?