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  • Light show a lure at ART Condos

    A great write up from the Toronto Star on January 11th 2014, LINK to online article and to Scanned local copy:-

    “Andrew Shields knows it’s time to walk his dog when the evening light show begins in the loading …

    Posted: January 26th, 2014 ˑ 
    Filled under: Media
  • Great News! ART’s been awarded again


    Great News! ART’s been awarded again at the Ontario Concrete Award 2013…

    Posted: December 10th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Media, Uncategorized
  • ART Condos Wins Prestigious Urban Design Award

    Fantastic new ART Condos has won an Urban Design Award, see page 26 (Sect 1:22) in the linked to pdf, a clip of which appears below.

    “Jury Comment
    Art Condominiums offers a thorough and robust response to current civic …

    Posted: September 19th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Media
  • BAAB [Business is Art/Art is Business]

    Because it mounts up the outside of north wall of the Art Condos building, right beside the building’s loading dock, it may not be much noticed by Art Condos owners or their neighbours.…

    Posted: August 1st, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Art We Love
  • Five great Toronto condos… From The Globe and Mail

     

    See the original article at The Globe and Mail(#5 in the Gallery), or download the printed version below.

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    Architecture Lisa Rochon chooses five buildings that give back to the city

    “ART Condos. Oleson Worland Architects …

    Posted: June 27th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Media, The Building
  • Communicating by Oscar Figueroa

    One of the highlights of Oscar Figueroa’s exhibition Air Plane—now installed in the Art Condos Loading Dock—is this work titled Communicating.

    It seems simple enough. A desk lamp, fitted with a red bulb, is positioned on the floor, near the …

    Posted: June 18th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Art We Love
  • Peony Time

    June is Peony time and nothing will fill your condo with such a sweet, intoxicating fragrance as a big generous bowl of them, lush and lavishly arranged. Poppies, at 1094 Queen street West, will design a bundle of them for …

    Posted: June 18th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Queen Street West
  • Green Desk Inabstracto

    Following the success of their sleek, blue, compact 001 desk—perfectly scaled for condo use– Toronto’s Projector Design has now released a second desk, the handsome green 002 desk, designed by Chris Stevenson and Matt Conacher.

    The desk’s high-gloss sides are …

    Posted: June 18th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Design We Love
  • Olive Bread at Mabel’s


    About the Neighbourhood
    Olive Bread at Mabel’s

    While bread is basic, archetypal food, it’s still not easy to find a good honest loaf of it.

    In an essay called “The Staff of Life” in his book, Remember to Remember, Henry …

    Posted: June 13th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Queen Street West
  • Oscar Figueroa – Art on the Loading Dock

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    Posted: June 10th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: The Building
  • ART CONDOS Loading Dock Exhibition

    This is artist Oscar Figueroa. He is just graduating from OCADU (The Ontario College of Art and Design University).

    He is a bit out of focus–because that’s how artists are sometimes.

    Figueroa will soon be in greatly improved focus, however, …

    Posted: May 29th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Art We Love
  • ART Condos in the news

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    Posted: May 27th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Media
  • Art We Love: Lynne Cohen

    Montreal-based mega-photographer, Lynne Cohen, has built an international reputation making large-scale photographs of the frightening–though sometimes beautiful and inexplicably moving–emptiness and absences of the contemporary urban environment.  Here, in this recent work, her cunning use of mirroring compounds the aridity
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    Posted: May 21st, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Art We Love
  • Queen West Coffee – Rsquared

    We used to enjoy having an early morning coffee at Quaff at 668 Queen Street West, but now we enjoy it even more at Rsquared–which, though it is at the same location, has been extensively redesigned and culinarily reorganized by …

    Posted: May 15th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Palette
  • About the neighbourhood: a favour for our furry friends.

    We were sauntering along Queen Street West a couple of days ago, enjoying the brand-new sunshine, when we noticed–in front of a store called Heel Boy, near Trinity-Bellwoods Park–this delighted little dog, munching happily at the bone-shaped biscuits and lapping …

    Posted: May 6th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Queen Street West
  • The Little Bed That Could.

    Given this expedient age’s tendency to throw everything away and buy new, we think it’s refreshing that TEB Interiors–whose principal, Terry Edward Briceland designed the Art Condos model suites–took on the refurbishing of this elderly settee.  Seeing the object as …

    Posted: April 29th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Art We Love
  • Design We Love – Venice Chairs

    These exquisite, custom-made, classical Venice chairs from Industrial Storm somehow manage to epitomize both modernist severity and economy of line with with a luxurious sense of timeless, old-world comfort. The chairs come in two models (one slightly larger than the …

    Posted: April 18th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Design We Love
  • ART WE LOVE: HWEON 1 by CHUNG-IM KIM

    Hovering somewhere between painting, drawing and sculpture—and between pure visual art and design—Chung-Im Kim’s wall-mounted, hand-stitched felt plaque (which has been silkscreened), is a crisply vibrant work that seems simultaneously static and yet full of spinning, torque-like movement.

    It sells …

    Posted: April 15th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Art We Love
  • MONDO CONDO: Jordan MacLachlan

    CONDO LIVING
    Jordan MacLachlan

    April 11 – May 11, 2013
    Opening reception: April 11, 5 – 8 pm
    80 Spadina Ave. Suite 208

    ArtBarrage is pleased to present Jordan MacLachlan’s Condo Living installation at the ArtBarrage gallery at 80 Spadina …

    Posted: April 9th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: MONDO CONDO
  • Art We Love: Julie Jenkinson – 36 Hours in Uruguay

    Designer Julie Jenkinson runs the micro-shop called Verso, tucked into the rear of Inabstracto on Queen Street
    West.  Last year she spent three months in South America, thirty-six hours of which were spent in Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay.
    It
    …
    Posted: April 4th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Art We Love
  • Photos from Art Condos Parka Party

    ART CONDOS’ Parka Party [in the afternoon of February 23] was the coolest and coldest party in the city. Hope you had a blast!
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    Posted: March 22nd, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Events
  • About the Neighbourhood – TYPE Books.

    In an age in which the book seems always to be under threat, Type Books seems more and more a welcome, even life-saving oasis of literacy.  The wit and charm of Type is exemplified right away in its outdoor sign–an
    …
    Posted: March 19th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Queen Street West, Stores
  • ART Condos Goes Green For St. Patrick’s Day!

    Art Condos–which was designed from the beginning to be a Green building–has now turned temporarily even greener, to serve as a St. Patrick’s Day greeting to all of our Irish friends and to the honorary Irish everywhere– which surely includes …

    Posted: March 15th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Aphorisms
  • ART WE LOVE: Two Door Mats by Gerald Ferguson

    Halifax-based conceptual artist Gerald Ferguson (1937-2009) always did everything he could to avoid making beautiful paintings—but ended by making them anyhow, almost against his will.  One of his ploys was to distance himself as much as possible from the actual …

    Posted: March 5th, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: Art We Love
  • MONDO CONDO: TERRY EDWARD BRICELAND: PILLOW TALK

    Terry Edward Briceland , the young designer who begat the Art Condos model Suites, runs a company called TEB Interiors alongside his business parter,  Matthew Adams. Although they are now launching a line of beds and other ambitious objects, TEB …

    Posted: March 1st, 2013 ˑ 
    Filled under: MONDO CONDO
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