Need some help better understanding why we have leap years? Here is a great explanation.
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If you missed it earlier this week, here is a great clip discussing the lack of municipal controls (political and financial) in Canadian cities. Mayor Nenshi of Calgary, featured on the program, does a great job of commenting on the lack of fiscal controls in our increasing ever-growing major cities, and the problems that has caused.
See the linked survey within the article for a detailed breakdown of the compiled statistics for the National Realtor Association.
But with Founder’s Syndrome, the very character assets that yield initial success – stubbornness, charisma, risk-taking – eventually become liabilities. Hostage to old ways of looking at the world, founders fail to see the emergence of new realities and can be blind to recommendations – or, in the case of RIM, demands – for change.
– The diagnosis for Research In Motion: acute Founderitis - The Globe and Mail
‘Ultima’ 32-storey condo proposed for Edmonton. Very excited about the strong design elements, and lack of ‘discount-architecture’ that the city can’t seem to shake otherwise. More renderings can be found here.
Canada, like many countries who benefited from strong economic conditions and government investment during the 1960s and 70s, has a large selection of brutalist structures. Once hated, I’ve come to love many of them for the architectural history and period they represent, rather than their soulless design and lack of pedestrian consideration. The question we’ll be plagued with over the next number of years concerning these structures is the consideration of ‘reimaging’ them when it comes time for major structural repairs. If kept, repaired and preserved, do we retrofit them to repair their shortcomings (pedestrian connectivity, lack of contextual integration, etc.), or do we respect the original intent and design and put up with the technical flaws for the sake of architectural ‘art’?
