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Photos by Arthur Condo
The only known photograph of Arthur Condo, taken by him during one of his frequent visits to the Art Condos building site (the one on Twitter is a fake; it is actually a photo of French Situationist International artist… -
Photos by Arthur Condo
Arthur Condo grew so fond of the crane atop the rising Art Condos building, he found himself (her knew it was absurd) experiencing a moment of real irritation–like a pang of jealousy–whenever “his” crane would appear to enter into…
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Photos by Arthur Condo
Although his partner, Anna Blume, disliked it, Arthur was actually very fond of his Art Condos rubble photograph. “Don’t you think it’s ugly?” Anna asked him. “No,” replied Arthur evenly, “I think it’s stirring, fundamental.”…
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Design We Love: the Solair Chair
We were quite taken—or, I suppose, more accurately, re-taken—by the sight of two of these venerable chairs on the sidewalk outside of INabstracto, on Queen Street West, just a couple of blocks from the Art Condos building.
What…
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Construction Pics From on Site
Right now at the Art Condos site at Queen and Dovercourt, the team is wrapping up concrete work on the third floor and getting started on the fourth floor walls and columns.
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Green Thumb: Anemones
Walking into Demarco-Perpich on Queen street West is like walking straight into an impossibly opulent, floral still life painting by Edouard Manet. The day we were there, the doorway was almost blocked by a spectacular surge of soft…
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Photos by Arthur Condo
Arthur Condo kept dropping off his spare, minimal photographs to us. Each one so far was about the gradually-rising ArtCondos building. It had occurred to us that he might be making a nuisance of himself, hanging around the site,…
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David Oleson of Oleson Worland Architects
David Oleson, of the Toronto firm Oleson Worland Architects, and longtime associate of developer Gary Silverberg, is the designer of the new Art Condos building.
Gary Michael Dault talked to him recently, at his Spadina Avenue office, about the…
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Gary Silverberg: Part I
In this, the first of a series of video interviews, critic and writer Gary Michael Dault talks to Art Condos developer Gary Silverberg, at his home in North Toronto, about the Art Condos concept and the project’s beginnings.
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“Science is a hamper which is being filled with things and more things that no one can manage until Art puts handles on the hamper and takes from it exactly what is necessary to perform the deed.”
Antonio Gaudi
