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Architect Ron Thom’s Boyd House is for sale

LB — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:02:39 +0000

These photos of Ron Thom’s Boyd House are from the blog Architecture Wanted which provides a good introduction to this house. Also see a great post by Cam McLellan on his Vancouver Lights blog and an article in Western Living by the house’s current owner, Kerry McPhedran.

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When bric-a-brac was part of a revolutionary politics

LB — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:07:59 +0000

Vancouver curator Scott Watson’s essay Urban Renewal: Ghost Traps, Collage, Condos and Squats is part of the impressive and totally compelling Vancouver Art in the Sixties website project.

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Florida House by Gene Leedy

LB — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:13:54 +0000

This midcentury modern house is for sale – or was – according to the Paul Rudolph Foundation website, which links to this great set of photos from ECOHUSET on Flickr.

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More Arthur Erickson – the Keevil House

LB — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:11:22 +0000

The Keevil House, Savary Island, British Columbia. Photos are from arthurerickson.com. Arthur Erickson, 1924-2009.

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The Japanese live comfortably in tiny spaces. Could we?

LB — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:23:22 +0000

In the western world, 750 sq ft apartments can seem really small, even for just two people. The excerpt below is from an interesting article by Nold Egenter, a Swiss architectural anthropologist, on the cultural influences that allow the Japanese to live comfortably in what North Americans would consider small spaces.

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BC Binning house, in photographic works by artist Arni Haraldsson

LB — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:01:44 +0000

Vancouver artist Arni Haraldsson, known for his photographic studies of modernist architecture and his research on Corbusier, produced these three photographs of the house of another artist, BC Binning, in 1994.