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Jan. 07, 2016 / artitectus

Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes

  Vancouver is a young city. While this means we don’t have our own Arc de Triomphe (though some seem…
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Jan. 07, 2016 / artitectus

When bad policy meets bad design …

[OR: What happens when you don’t engage in Design Thinking] Much has been written (often here) about the decision to…
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Jan. 06, 2016 / artitectus

Design thinking for Cities?

An article today in the NYTimes: ‘Design Thinking’ for a Better You … got me thinking about a post from…
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Jan. 06, 2016 / artitectus

If you build it they will … um …

I covered a story about the great looking architecture in Winnipeg which has suffered greatly since its initial photos put…
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Jan. 05, 2016 / artitectus

Green spaces on high places?

Some Rad Shit from LA … with all of last fall’s various discussions about the demolition of the viaducts, and the…
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Jan. 05, 2016 / artitectus

Low thoughts about High design?

Or … when bad things happen to ‘good’ architecture … In recent years, there have been breathless reports of Winnipeg’s…
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Jan. 04, 2016 / artitectus

High thoughts about low design?

Forwarded to me by James Bligh … “I saw this commercial at a movie theatre the other night and almost…
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Jan. 04, 2016 / artitectus

We were bold once, and young …

Michael Mortensen’s reply to my post yesterday presents the perfect segue to another topic I wanted to discuss this week.…
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Jan. 03, 2016 / artitectus

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” This was something a planning professor of mine once told me…

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