Incredible how much of the Hemingway in Paris lifestyle was funded by doing one half-assed freelance piece in the Toronto Star every couple of weeks.

Open anonymous competitions are so rare in Ontario and this one has a lot of good ideas! Check them out!

in lisbon, the city is moving forward with giving land to cooperatives

included in these projects are 3BR apartments that will cost less than $300k

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For dwell I wrote about cooperative home buying: purchasing a house with your friends as a way to share costs and address issues like self-employment. Thanks to all the amazing people who generously shared their “house partner” stories with me! dwell.com/article/cooper…

ENOUGH ALREADY WITH THE BLEACHER STAIRS!
here i am on the origins and proliferation of the space hogging, uncomfortable, inaccessible architectural trend that must die.
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Imagine what it’s like for artists without celebrity or access to lawyers. x.com/BobbyAllyn/sta…

In Azure Magazine, I write about the history and revitalization of downtown Toronto's Hermant Building by ERA Architects and Giaimo — and why you shouldn't necessarily avoid Yonge-Dundas Square. azuremagazine.com/article/downto…

Check it out folks! Some have heard/are aware I’ve been working towards this for a while, with the help of a core group of great volunteers. Launch event June 7!

Batay Csorba Architects teasing a v beautiful (and green!) building near Christie and Dupont.

100 more of these please!

CP24 is often rough, but this coverage of the Gardiner closure which is over 5 minutes long and talks about people changing jobs because of reduced highway lanes doesn’t mention transit - once - the GO train tracks are even in various clips they show!

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Toronto: The Globe and Mail is seeking your memories of Raymond Moriyama's buildings, and your thoughts about preserving the 1960s Japanese-Canadian Cultural Centre. Please share. [No paywall.] theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/ar…

Laine Johnson Theresa Kavanagh She/Her City of Ottawa That’s good. But do they have to be boring? What if our bridges were interest? Beautiful even. Why can’t we have nice things? See thread below. 1/

Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose short stories have been beloved for the past six decades, has died at 92. '
Her earthy humour and ability to extend sympathy to every character made her a household name, and made her birthplace of Wingham, Ontario, a place of literary

Enough small business sims. Indie game about being on the worker’s self management committee of an aluminum foundry.

In 14 years at Toronto city hall I can’t recall seeing the entire front of the building blocked off to prevent protest. Pro-Palestinian protesters being forced to the far west side of Nathan Phillips Square, away from Israeli flag raising

“What sets this project apart from others like it is how it’s paid for:

They created a crowdfunding campaign that recruited nearly 500 residents to invest $1.3 million as a down payment to help finance the project’s construction + earn up to 7 % annually in dividend payments.”