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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 …
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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 …
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Olive Bread at Mabel’s
About the Neighbourhood
Olive Bread at Mabel’sWhile 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 …
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Oscar Figueroa – Art on the Loading Dock
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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 …
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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… -
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 …
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About the Neighbourhood – “Taking A Stand” On Queen West
This caught our eye the other day. It struck us as arresting that in the simple act of putting a chair on top of a table,you could rob both objects of their original function and turn the whole structure… -
Art Condos ABOUT THE NEIGHBOURHOOD:
Just taking a stroll around the Art Condos neighbourhood, here’s our take on life in lovely West Queen West!You’ve Changed? So have we. So has the neighbourhood. So has everything.A cityscape of sunlight igniting the walls of the… -
Art Condos About the Neighborhood
Art Condos took a quick walk through the neighbourhood to check out some “found art”.
Graffiti grows up. This slickly professional-quality portrait graces the outside north wall (a few feet down the alley) ofthe David Kaye Gallery at… -
Around the Neighbourhood.
A baroque refuse container outside the Gladstone Hotel
A Queen Street Greeting
Cabbages and Kings
The Art of Street Life
Last Roses of Summer…
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David Oleson receives an Award for his design of the village of Yorkville Park
…Art Condos would like to congratulate architect David Oleson, designer of the Art Condos building on being awarded the Landmark Award for his design of the Village of Yorkville Park. The park is a hub around which downtown Toronto
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David Oleson on Art Condos Facade Design
For our previous two chats with Art Condos architect David Oleson, we discussed a few basic design issues pertaining to the new building. Topics covered include overall design decisions, the building’s use of glass, ideas about the look …
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Mabel’s bakery finds a new home on Queen West
Mabel’s Bakery at 323 Roncesvalles Avenue has been an oasis of great baked goods and specialty foods for about four years now. About six weeks ago, owner Lorraine Hawley opened a second Mabel’s–at 1156 Queen street West. It will be …
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Design we love: Lotte lamps at INabstracto
We dropped in to INabstracto a few days ago to chat with owner Kate Eisen, and it was only when we were leaving that we noticed the delicious still-life she had made from grouping five Lotte lamps together on a …
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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 …
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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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Design we love: Julie Jenkinson of Verso
Designer Julie Jenkinson has just opened her own small and charming design shop at the rear of Kate Eisen’s INabstracto. The place is wittily called Verso (as in “what is on the other side of the page?”). We spoke …
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Design we love: Kate Eisen of INabstracto
Kate Eisen’s store, INabstracto: Mid Century Modern Furniture & Design, is as much a design museum and gallery as it is a retail outlet for historically significant design objects. We talked to her a few days ago about what INabstracto …
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Art we love: Peak Gallery owner Zack Pospieszynski
We consider Zack Pospieszynski–owner-director of Peak Gallery–to be a man of discriminating taste and lucid opinions, and so we dropped by the gallery the other day to ask him about his current likes and dislikes in contemporary art. The …
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Art we love: ceramics by Robert Archambeau
We’ve not always been big fans of ceramics–a lot of it seems artsy and sentimental– but we’ll always make an exception for the exquisite stoneware pieces of veteran ceramics artist Robert Archambeau. Archambeau, who won the Governor General’s Award in …
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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 Silverberg, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
