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Catching the Wood Wave

It’s Olympic time, and I’m a sports fanatic. I’ve been blown away by some of the coura­geous per­for­mances we’ve seen so far (Alexan­dre Bilodeau!), and am look­ing for­ward to more (obvi­ously I’ll be cheer­ing for skele­ton ath­lete Michelle Kelly). But I’m equally as impressed by some of the Olympic venues. In par­tic­u­lar, the Rich­mond Olympic Oval, […]

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Building and Architecture

Tricked-​​out treehouses

When I left the house this morn­ing, I heard birds chirp­ing. Not a com­mon sound to hear in Toronto in Jan­u­ary, espe­cially this year when it seems as thought the tem­per­a­ture has only rarely risen above –10 degrees. Was it ever soul pol­ish­ing to hear that squeaky reminder of spring.
Ah, yes, spring.
It also reminded me of some­thing I’ve […]

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Building and Architecture

Design a Cottage for Living

Yes­ter­day I was chat­ting with Gra­ham Smith of Altius Archi­tec­ture about one of his recent projects and we got to talk­ing a bit about cot­tage design in gen­eral.
When you’re build­ing a cot­tage from scratch, the key thing is to remem­ber that you’re design­ing a cot­tage, not a home. “It can be dif­fi­cult to get clients out of the mind­set of […]

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