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December 22, 2015

Harold Lloyd’s Christmas Tree

Silent film comedy star Harold Lloyd was a crazed Christmas lover. Using many trees roped together Lloyd built these enormous Christmas trees, then added an extraordinary collection of Christmas ornaments……

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November 28, 2015

The 10,000 Year Clock?

  Quite some time ago, though not long in the context of the 10,000 year clock, I read The Clock of The Long Now: Time & Responsibility, by Stewart Brand……

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November 18, 2015

Alexander Caldwell at KOAC

ALEXANDER CALDWELL has a small sculpture installed on the grounds of the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Center,  out on the western edge of the city (Calgary). The piece reminds me of New York based architect…..

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November 3, 2015

Reneisidore-Panmuphle: A Website in Absurd Triplets

For the past year, every day at 6:30 A.M. Hunter Doyle has organized and recorded his research from the previous day. Hunter is s a 2nd year student of architecture,studying…..

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August 17, 2015

William Butterfield – Christ Church, Fredericton NB

One more in our occasional views of the work of William Butterfield, a High Church Anglican with the inside track on a great deal of Anglican Church architectural work of the…..

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July 20, 2015

Dick’s Cafe, Redvers Saskatchewan 1987

Redvers Saskatchewan, is the first town you pass through travelling west from Manitoba on the Red Coat Trail, once a thoroughfare of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and now modern…..

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May 19, 2015

Katie Ohe, RCA, at Herringer Kiss Gallery

  We have known Katie Ohe for many years, and we are so pleased to hear that five or her early works have just become available. Katie found these works, dating…..

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February 19, 2015

Aero Garment, Vancouver

“Charles Chan Kent’s C. Kent & Co. and his Vancouver Shirt and Overall Manufacturing Co. became Aero Garment Ltd. in 1925 and began to market nationally. He built a hundred…..

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February 12, 2015

Loverna Saskatchewan, Main Street

Small town Saskatchewan, but still there. The grain elevators were moved across the border into Alberta, to Ronald Strankman’s farm but the town celebrated its 100th Anniversary on June 1st 2013……

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January 31, 2015

Southern Alberta Barn

Still strong visions of the prairie, materials weathered by the seasons, dreams vanished, hope drifted away. Southern Alberta Barn. Photograph by Bob Agar 2015