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Arch-i-text: The long and winding road to recognizing our town’s heritage

The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake has been described as having the greatest concentration of surviving British Colonial architecture built between 1813 and 1860 of any...

Arch-i-text: How architecture holds the history of its inhabitors

At the corner of King and Mary streets stands a large white building that recalls the early days of the Town of Niagara. In 1800,...

Arch-i-text: 19th-century and New Traditional — conversation across generations

Over the past few years, this column has stressed the importance of sympathetic — and contextually appropriate — design to achieve new developments (or...

Arch-i-text: What’s wrong with this picture?

Within the foreseeable future, Glendale will be home to 20,000 – or more – residents of Niagara-on-the-Lake. That’s likely to be over half of...

Arch-i-text: The ins and outs of choosing a colour palette for your home

So, you’ve decided it is time to paint the exterior of your house and are feeling a little trepidatious.  That's OK – since everyone knows...

Arch-i-text: The origin of ‘greige’ homes goes all the way back to 19th century

Since about 2010, the most popular colour palettes for the exterior treatment of homes have been muted tones dominated by neutral greys and taupes...

Arch-i-text: A concrete look at local governance

Looking at the letters to the editor published in the Lake Report during the last couple of months, it seems there is a rising...

Arch-i-text: More trouble, and potential solutions, to affordable housing crisis

In Ontario, the Residential Tenancies Act is the piece of legislation that — while being very broad, generally — provides explicit, legal requirements governing...

Arch-i-text: The pipe dream of affordable housing under provincial guidelines

There is an unspoken but generally accepted assumption among most Canadians that housing is a commodity traded on the open market with the objective...

Arch-i-text: Health care and amalgamation show bigger is rarely better

It often amazes me how, once a concept is adopted by the government, the actual success of the concept is rarely – if ever...

Arch-i-text: Innovative ways to meet build more homes quickly

Over the past five decades I have been blessed to work with some pretty brilliant folks, each of whom have freely shared pearls of...

Arch-i-text: The resurrection of wartime housing

This past Dec. 12, Sean Fraser, the federal minister of housing, announced his government intends to “take a lesson from our history books” by...

Arch-i-text: Trees, parks and climate change

Over the past few days, I have been battling a particularly nasty cold, which has reduced my energy levels to a mere ghost of...

Arch-i-text: Democracy in development? Maybe for the few

In November of 1947, Winston Churchill stated: “Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried, in this world of sin and...

Arch-i-text: Draft design guidelines an ‘impressive piece of work’

Before we get into this week’s primary topic, I’d like to extend my best wishes to an individual who served the people of Niagara-on-the-Lake...

Arch-i-text: Lest we forget how war has touched our lives – and architecture

On Nov. 11, I stood at the back of the crowd gathered in Old Town to mark Remembrance Day. I thought that here, in...

Arch-i-text: Dispelling some myths about heritage designation

I don’t believe it is an overstatement to say that, for the first time in the history of Ontario, we have a government that...

Arch-i-text: The good, the bad and the ugly of development

Upfront this week, an update regarding our provincial government’s ongoing use of municipal zoning orders. In the Oct. 26 edition of The Lake Report, the...

Arch-i-text: Questions about the province’s ‘red tape reduction’ efforts

Were you aware that Ontario has a Ministry of Red Tape Reduction headed by cabinet minister Parm Gill? And yes, that is the ministry’s...

Arch-i-text: The Greenbelt and the games governments play

Well, the halls of Ontario’s provincial government have certainly staged high theatre since Aug. 16, when the auditor general published her report regarding Premier Doug...

Arch-i-text: Embracing Glendale through a more inspired design

Over the past few weeks I have been experiencing a fierce internal debate around the subject of the proposed Glendale development by White Oaks...

Arch-i-text: Arts and Crafts movement introduces creativity to architecture

In last week’s column we looked at the Canada-centric expression of Edwardian Classicism. In that article, it was mentioned that during the latter part...

Arch-i-text: Edwardian Classicism, Canada’s blend of French and English style

On and off over the last eight weeks, we have explored a number of 19th and early 20th-century architectural styles that contributed to the...

Arch-i-text: A home, a couple and a sense of place

When I first began writing the Arch-i-text series back in 2018, my intent was to make this column a place wherein the character of...

Arch-i-text: NOTL’s Second Empire homes have roots in French design

Over the past few weeks, we have explored a number of 19th-century architectural styles and visited local examples. From Georgian to Gothic Revival and...

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