If you have six million, you can buy this Arthur Erickson
Erickson’s Filberg House, posted here on May 20, is actually for sale. A friend found it online by accident, while idly searching for midcentury modern houses outside Vancouver. (Above photo by...
View ArticleThe “boutique Iliad”, or Smash the State? Or both!
I had a fit of morbid laughter when I saw this redevelopment banner today. The graffiti could be its Greek chorus. Do you think the condo developer actually bothered to read The Iliad before naming a...
View ArticleInterior design and architecture in a world gentrifying at a surreal pace
In case you think that what follows is an exaggeration, please take a quick look at the recent articles listed below. They are only a small selection from a rising wave of articles on gentrification...
View ArticleThe “Non-Partisan” Association, Vancouver’s zombie political party
This post is for Vancouverites who are either new to the city or who are urban or civic politics nerds but may not be acquainted with the early historical roots of the local civic political party...
View ArticleInside job: How a murky system of preferential access skews new condo sales
M City condo development, in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga Above, story on preferential sales to offshore buyers by Westbank, a Vancouver developer who built an outsized condo development in...
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