Dismantling the crane

Tuesday May 29 was an important–and poignant–day in the life of the Art Condos building. For this was the day the mobile crane showed up to begin the exacting process of dismantling the big construction crane that has been perched…

As Andrea Branzi writes in his book, Learning from Milan, ”we live in a megasystem of furnishings and fittings, within a gigantic lightscape, in a wired-up territory in which an infinity of terminals are linked together, like an all-embracing interface, artificially ventilated and

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Design we love: Industrial Storm’s cracked coffee table

This lean, noble table–Industrial Storm‘s Cracked Coffee Table–is visually powerful enough to be regarded as both furniture and sculpture. Described by Industrial Storm’s Hanson Tan as “Asian inspired with a contemporary sensibility,” the table features a top that…

Introducing WORLDFinger

WORLDFfinger is an entertainment communications system by which the user can control any number of  computers, TVs, sound systems, DVD players, gaming systems and the like–all from one, simple-to-use control tablet.  The elegant WORLDfinger concept was developed by Gary…

Design we love: Freitag messenger bags

The Swiss design firm Freitag has been creating its unique, ecologically impeccable line of bags since 1993. They are made of recycled truck tarpaulins, unraveled seat belts, old bicycle inner tubes and recycled airbags. The company’s Top Cat bag is…

Photos By Arthur Condo

Last week Arthur Condo brought us four more photographs of the soon-to-be-completed Art Condos building–the building he was shortly to move into. He was extremely excited by the building’s progress. “It really looks like…well, like architecture!” he told us. “It’s…

According to Italian architect and designer, Andrea Branzi, the city is “a permanent contradiction,” a “stable chaos.”

Christina Zeidler of The Gladstone Hotel

There are two venerable cultural landmarks–institutions, really– on Queen Street West. One is the self-consciously glamorous Drake Hotel (about which we’ll be posting material here shortly) and the other is the no less glamorous but possibly more culturally earnest…

The art of mate drinking

The graceful and sociable art of drinking Mate — the traditional South American infused tea made from steeped leaves and twigs of the yerba mate plant — is so complex, one really needs instruction of what is actually a whole…

WORLDFinger in four questions

We talked recently, at the Art Condos Testing Centre in Toronto, with Art Condos developer Gary Silverberg about his cutting-edge WORLDFinger media control system.

WORLDFinger—which is an elegant, highly sophisticated tool for managing all your media devices from one…