Trevor Boddy
@trevboddy
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Architecture critic/curator and consulting urban designer Trevor Boddy.
Vancouver BC
Joined May 2012
My tribute to the late architect and a great era of public design:
Architect Raymond Moriyama built bold, big ideas that we must now save from small thinking
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Toon Dreesen's superb critique of a flawed procurement process for the N.C.C.'s new headquarters. RAIC et al should tame this tilt towards timidity in picking design consultants! @RAIC_IRAC @AIBCconnected @AIANational #public architecture #procurement #ncc #ottawa
Our governments try to save pennies by hiring the wrong architects for cheap: this has to change. Cc @brodheadjd
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Credentialist over-reach linking consumables to anything 'Mid-Century Modern' reaches new depths with these faux Eames fibreglass-coloured sneakers! Can Massey College brick-coloured socks be far behind? @AIASeattle @RAIC_IRAC @riba #midcenturymodern @modernshows @midcentury1980
Fiberglass patina in a shoe? Yes please
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Alex is absolutely right--sprawl may be the most important climate change issues in Canada (locking in energy waste for decades), but was seldom talked about in the era of cheap gas/credit for housing. Time to start! @AIBCconnected @RAIC_IRAC #sprawl #conservation #suburbia
Toronto right now, continuing to sprawl. This map is a disaster for the climate and for social mobility.
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Our own Arthur Erickson was the first there with California Plaza (one of the best, and most public-minded complexes there), but the passage you underline is typical Davis, hyperbole mixed with hysteria blunting valid points.
Mike Davis on downtown LA’s Bunker Hill, and maybe a 1970/80s downtown near you: “Their denigration of street landscape, and their confiscation of so much of the vital life activity of the center… fascist obliteration of street frontage”
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I hope Toronto joins Edmonton in doing this--we have long tried in Vancouver, but the idea was shunned by city councilors, planners and developers, all of them thinking a City Architect would diminish their power! @AIBCconnected @RAIC_IRAC @RAICMetroVan #vancouverism
Toronto badly needs this.
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I write about a crucial issue in architecture: who gets hired for public buildings - often the wrong people - and why.
theglobeandmail.com
In Toronto or in most of Canada, we don’t value public architecture, and we aren’t willing to pay for it
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Vancouverism evolving--towers by Kuma, Heatherwick, Scheeren in our emerging 'architectural zoo'! https://t.co/HWTHB1Ait1...
#urbandesign Urban Design Forum #Highrise #CondoLiving #downtown #downtownvancouver RAIC - IRAC RAIC The American Institute of Architects (AIA) RIBA
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TEXT Trevor Boddy For over a century, ‘architectural zoos’ have been permanent collections of architectural animals—one example each from the leading species of designers. The most famous of these is...
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Before that strip tease of demolition, this was one of the first curtain walls and finest modernist office towers on Alberta.
Heartbreaking... Edmonton is a city that eats itself (although this one is all on the Province).
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The "avant garde" font chosen in the 70s for the Oilberta logo was self-consciously masculine and optimistic. Its recent replacement with a cursive font a few years ago is self-consciously feminine and more nuanced/nervous. I have no nostalgia for the avant-garde font/logo.
The Provincial logo of my heart and soul. We need to bring it back.
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Fine design by top Cdn woman makes WORKPLACE SHINE! My review of Transit Garage by Pat Hanson/GH3, set on ruins of hometown's earliest modernism. https://t.co/U9GTrdJi4C
#womeninarchitecture RAIC - IRAC The American Institute of Architects (AIA) #edmontonmade #torontoarchitects
canadianarchitect.com
PROJECT Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage, Edmonton, Alberta ARCHITECTS gh3* (design architect) with Morrison Hershfield (prime consultant) PHOTOS gh3* One of the few lazy diagonals in a hard-working...
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I really hope that Vancouver housing developers do not start using this dreadful precedent from Santa Barbara, one of their favourite winter hiding places!
A donor believes that windowless dorm rooms will get students to interact and collaborate. Unbelievable in 2021 😱 Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
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Only a "problem" Neal? Has Kenney's Oilberta dulled your judgement? "Outrage" or "disgrace" might be more appropriate. @_PIBC @RAICMetroVan
Process matters... @sandyjamesplan details the FC South issue well. I understand the need to work out what can work on the site but dropping a proposed form of development prior to collaborative engagement is a problem.
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Strawberry Hill haunts the mind of every Romantic who ever lived or remains undead! [signed, Trev DeadBoddy] #artsandcrafts #romantism #gothicrevival #goth #punkaesthetics
I watched the 'Wedding' episode of Bramwell recently - and was thrilled to find that the reception was shot in Strawberry Hill! Pioneering Gothic Revival home to Horace Walpole and setting for (parts of) the world's first Gothic novel, it's a place that #OughtToBeHaunted.
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In all the Cinque Terre, I am Positano this is Villa Gillespini, home of il boato motore! @westbank @AIBCconnected @RAICMetroVan #westvancouver
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Ex-UBC Architecture colleague/mentor, Vancouver art world friend, and eternal sparring partner -- ANDREW GRUFT -- has died after a long illness. His finest designs were for the Bennett Dam. This dam architect was a damn fine critic! @RAIC_IRAC @AIBCconnected @AIASeattle @RIBA
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An a-pealing design from a housing whiz.
Inspired by the Arbutus’ distinctive peeling bark, "ARBUTUS" Rental project was recently APPROVED by Urban Design Panel. See project here: https://t.co/l0wi3fZViN...
#rental #yvr #realestate #construction #vancouver #design #architecture #biophilicdesign #sustainability
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Fantastic piece by @JohnLorinc , including @BrentToderian, on the consequences of regressive urban design ideas 1/
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