Posts tagged with ‘architecture’ (16)
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Tying thousands of balloons to a house to carry it away may be a made-in-Hollywood story. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, wheels, not balloons, will lift an old house to its new home - and give it a second chance at life.
This weekend, the historic Morris house, once home to Halifax’s Surveying General Charles Morris Junior, will make a 4.5 kilometre journey to its new neighbourhood. The building, believed to be the oldest wooden building in Halifax, was slated for demolition four years ago until a ...
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Posted by Kelly Greig
on Monday, February 14, 2011
Photo: iheartcities/flickr
I’ve been living green without even knowing it. As a student, I'm used to cramped, tiny apartments. But it turns out that living in small is actually significantly reducing my carbon footprint.
"Small living" is a new trend rebelling against the excesses of wasteful space. Since the 1950’s, the average size of homes has ballooned from 983 square feet to 2,349 square feet in 2004. Yet at the same time, the average size of a North American family has shrunk.
The bottom line is that we’re taking ...
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Posted by Graham Lanktree
on Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Photo: YouTube
Well known to most Canadians, the Heritage Minutes television spots have run alongside the commercials during our favourite shows for years to teach us about our nation’s history. But are they merely fun, mini-documentaries?
While pursuing her master's in politics and communication at the London School of Economics, political scientist Cait Hurcomb began examining the Heritage Minute project and how it works to unify the identity of a nation often cast as a mosaic of cultures and ideas. What ...
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Posted by Graham Lanktree
on Friday, July 09, 2010
It’s tough to host international exhibitions when you have to tell curators you’ll be unloading their precious artifacts in the snowbanks out back. Until a few years ago, that wasn’t far from the truth at downtown Ottawa’s Victoria Memorial Museum Building, which houses the Canadian Museum of Nature. Constructed 100 years ago, the "castle," built from local sandstone, was meant to mirror Centre Block on Parliament Hill. It’s architecturally divine but, as a public facility, desperately needed ...
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Posted by Graham Lanktree
on Thursday, April 08, 2010
Inspired by a utopian Swedish suburb, Québec has embarked on an ambitious plan to transform an urban wasteland on the banks of the historic Rivière Saint- Charles into a model green neighbourhood. Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain were both enamoured of the Saint-Charles, the meandering waterway in the valley of the promontory that defines Québec. Cartier wintered on it in 1535-36; a century later, Champlain envisioned a shiny new city on its banks, in an area now known as Pointe-aux- Lièvres ...
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