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Arch-i-text: Something is wrong with this picture

“There is an extremely disturbing trend in this province directed at marginalizing, diminishing or outright destruction of our shared history, built heritage and cultural landscapes,” writes Brian Marshall.

Arch-i-text: It’s much more than all to do about nothing

“Change within the heritage district is one thing, but the wholesale flouting of the heritage district guidelines — specifically designed to preserve its ‘special character’ — is a horse of a different colour,” writes Brian Marshall.

Arch-i-text: Other points of concern in the new Royal George plans

The proponents of the Royal George Theatre redesign “are slavishly following the flawed protocols of the Venice Charter to produce a design which, in the view of several architects of my acquaintance, is utterly inappropriate within the context of the Queen–Picton historic district,” writes Brian Marshall.

Arch-i-text: Of Bill 5 and other environmental matters

The clear-cutting of a forest in Virgil this year to make way for development is “only a single, relatively small, local example of the potential devastation which could, and likely will, be visited upon the landscape of this province should the Ford government’s Bill 5 be passed into law,” writes Brian Marshall.

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