ART Condos About The Building – Oleson on Terraces

It was a moment of what you might call architectural narcissism that compelled us to take yet another photo of the almost completed Art Condos building.  After which, we emailed the building’s architect, David Oleson, asking him if he would …

ARTCONDOS: ART WE LOVE JOY by Kai Chan.

We dropped into the nearby David Kaye Gallery the other day to see new work by the celebrated Chinese-Canadian artist Kai Chan.  Chan, who was born in China in 1940 and has lived in Toronto since 1966, is the recipient …

Art we love: Roland Brener’s Swinger

Among the many remarkable works in the current summer exhibition at the Olga Korper Gallery is a piece by the late Roland Brener (1942-2006) called Swinger. Swinger began in 1999, as a hand-built, laminated plywood figure of a standard-issue businessman …

David Oleson on balconies

After speaking about the use of glass in the Art Condos building, we went on to ask David Oleson to share his thoughts about the design and function of balconies in general and the balconies of the Art Condos building …

David Oleson on glass

We spoke recently to architect David Oleson, designer of the Art Condos building. Our first chat was about glass.

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Are smart condos the next step?

Technology is increasingly prevalent in our day-to-day lives. To stay ahead of the curve and provide customers with added value, this is something many industries have to take into account. In our most recent interview with Gary Silverberg, we …

Design we love: Buddha machines

Maybe there ought to be a column in this blog called Design That Simply Catches Our Fancy—a place to explore objects that, while they may not kick the history of design ahead by much, are, nevertheless, attractive and pleasing.

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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.…

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 …