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How did those 2015 predictions for 2025 work out?
10 years ago I was amused by two predictions for the future, one about bathrooms and the other about technology.
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NKBA 2025 Kitchen Trends are all about "sustainability and wellness." Really?
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
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The top ten posts of the year
A look back before I take a short seasonal break
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Study: Higher hoods + higher speeds = more death
Yet another study from the IIHS concludes that the design of our vehicles has to change.
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Happy 130th birthday, Wells Coates, an almost unknown Canadian modernist architect
A look at his plan for the Toronto Islands, which would have been amazing.
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Why do open kitchens feel so wrong?
The way we eat has changed; kitchen design should too. The modern kitchen should be small, efficient, and closed.
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How can an aging population shape our cities?
A twelve year old study from the RIBA holds up extremely well.
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Should a RIBA House of the Year have wood stoves?
What ever happened to the concern for sustainability and health?
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In praise of ugly old buildings
A discussion of what some call an ugly pile brings back memories of an ugly duckling I designed.
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The Ship of Theseus sails into in Toronto
A look back at the corner of Queen and Yonge, which has just been magnificently restored by ERA
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Jargon Watch: Qualinesia, or forgetting when things were better in the past
I have written about why things were often better in the past, and so did Vance Packard in his classic, The Waste Makers.
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Jargon Watch: "Optoppen" or "topping up" buildings with mass timber additions
We have seen this movie before, and called it "Aufstockung"
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