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Mar. 26, 2008 / Gordon Price

What only Gehry can get away with …

This year’s temporary Serpentine Pavilion in London:…

Mar. 25, 2008 / Gordon Price

Cautionary note to the Art Gallery

From Architect Online: That the Bilbao effect became a wildly successful urban development strategy for resuscitating declining cities throughout the…

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Feb. 03, 2008 / Gordon Price

Portland Spaces

Everyone (at least who reads this blog) knows Portland has a dynamic urban culture. Naturally, there’s an online site – Portland…

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Jan. 31, 2008 / Gordon Price

Does Gordon Campbell know about this?

Greg Hamilton sends along an article on the latest plan for St. Petersburg: “The heart of the city quarter will…

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Jan. 22, 2008 / Gordon Price

Edginess on the Edge

Every urban-design and architecture critic I read has a highly cultivated cynicism. Christopher Hume, he of the Toronto Star, is…

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Jan. 21, 2008 / Gordon Price

Southward Bound

Sun writer Frances Bula has a blog – City States – where she can put pieces that don’t make it…

Jan. 19, 2008 / Gordon Price

Notes on Duany

I was going to jot a few of the notes I made on the Andres Duany lecture that filled the…

Jan. 13, 2008 / Gordon Price

Pioneer

Interior designer Mitchell Freedland has an interesting observation in this Globe article when he was asked why Vancouver is at the…

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Jan. 05, 2008 / Gordon Price

Revival

Charles Barber in front of the Pantages Theatre in the Downtown East Side: Find out who he is and why…

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Jan. 02, 2008 / Gordon Price

Big Box

Last year, Sun columnist Miro Cernetig did a piece on the new convention centre expansion. From a design perspective, the…

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Dec. 28, 2007 / Gordon Price

Bing to Bing

Walter Schultz relates a fascinating story about the origins of the Sunset Community Centre here. From Bing Crosby to Bing…

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Dec. 21, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Un-Iconic: AR Awards for Emerging Architecture

In this article in The Times, Tom Dyckhoff notes how “un-iconic” the Arhcitectural Review award winners are: … in the…

Dec. 16, 2007 / Gordon Price

Con or Icon

Put February 1 in your calendar (7 pm, SFU Harbour Centre) if you care about the state of Vancouver’s architecture. …

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Dec. 11, 2007 / Gordon Price

A is for Absurd

Brent Toderian sends along a book review: In Architecture of the Absurd, John Silber dares to peek behind the curtain…

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