Design We Love: the GT Rocker

We were struck by the clean, classic beauty of this modernist rocking chair at STYLEGARAGE on Queen Street West. We grew even more impressed when we found the sleek—and almost absurdly comfortable chair—was designed and built right on the premises.…

Green Thumb: the Air Plant

Growing houseplants in a condo—which, one supposes, would make them condoplants—is not as easy as all that for the simple reasons that a) condos are not known to be as tropically moist as greenhouses, and b) condo owners are busy…

Art We Love: Tabletop DNA by Bradley Harms

We think this large (77 by 54 inches) acrylic by Winnipeg-born, Vancouver-based painter Bradley Harms is really pretty hot. It’s titled Tabletop DNA.

This airy, open-hearted painting, as absorbing and as intimately inspectable as a game-board, is something of a…

“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house [or condo!], I should say the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”

Gaston Bachelard, from The Poetics of…

Rebecca and the Crane

It was an aerial adventure of epic proportions.

It began when the crane was installed in the huge crater out of which – with the crane’s aid- would rise the handsome ART Condos building.

As ART Condos Developer Gary Silverberg…

Construction Pics From on Site