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”

Nice houses. Pity who’s living there    (2012.07.26)

Scott Weir and the soi-disant Cabbagetown Heritage Conservation District are more concerned with buildings than people. Are you surprised?

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

Shawn Micallef, hypocrite    (2012.01.30)

Shawn Micallef thinks it’s fine when someone as rich as he wishes to become tears down a historic property – but ever so deplorable when anyone else does it

Architecture critic of the year, 2011    (2012.01.02)

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