In the climate crisis, how do we make the case for older buildings?
We are coming late to grasping the grave threat that climate change poses to our economy, our society and our safety.
We are coming late to grasping the grave threat that climate change poses to our economy, our society and our safety.
What Ever Happened to Building Stories?
Editor’s note: I am happy to welcome another special guest (who also happens to be my friend and near-neighbour) to OHA+M. Â
The long-delayed changes to the Ontario Heritage Act will — finally — take effect on July 1.Â
Demolition: Fix the Building Code not the Heritage System!
Dominion Foundry Complex   Vik Pahwa Photo
How do you stop a demolition?
That of course is the perennial question for built heritage advocates.
Remembering Parks Canada’s Historic Places Initiative
London Doorways — Celebrating a Unique Feature of London’s Heritage
Just when we thought the status of Heritage Conservation Districts — and their pre-2005 and post-2005 HCD plans — was settled1, along comes an Ontario Municipal Board decision that seems to throw a wrench in the works.
Yes, it’s the OMB, in 2017 actually, when the metamorphosis to Local Planning Appeal Tribunal was still underway. It’s an obscure decision no one much had ever heard of. Too bad it didn’t stay that way.