Meet me At Starbucks
My goal as an Architect has always been to serve my clients and my community with good design. It has been exciting and challenging at the same time. My most difficult challenge is finding those people who want or need good design, but don’t know where to start. My hope that by offering to “meet … Read more
A New Year of Tax Fraud
Municipalities will be ringing in the New Year by ringing the cash registers, once again collecting their revenue from one slice of citizens, and using it to subsidize another. Their New Year’s resolution should be to stop this fraudulent practice, and bring tax fairness to forms of urban development that are economically and environmentally sustainable. … Read more
Commuting for the Common Good
Downtown London has the John Labatt Centre (the “jail”, I think it’s known as), and Hamilton its Copps Coliseum. Sundry dreams of replacing Kitchener’s Aud, and inevitably the subject of a location for it, contain the seeds of a dilemma: build on the outskirts where land is cheap, in a sea of surface parking, or … Read more
Public Interest and the Architect
I’ve just been reading the 2011 Ontario Association of Architects “Profiles 2011″ Membership Guide. In it there’s an article entitled Why You Should Use an Architect for Your Project. Although interesting, and informative, and mostly on target in the mind of this particular architect, I couldn’t help but wonder how a broader audience receives its … Read more
