Spaces By Rohan
Spaces By Rohan
1294 College Street – The Driveway House. So skip forward 6-8 years: I find myself recently divorced as well as completing 157 Coxwell – the house on Stilts in Toronto – as well as completing a very luxury condominium interior as well spending almost every lunch hour with my senior kindergarden age daughter at school. I would also spend…
‘The Driveway House’ is another representation of the architecture of hope. Many people have hope for architecture and good design. We will all express that hope in many ways, every month or year of our existence. Why a driveway in the middle of downtown Nottingham? Did I or do I not have bigger ambitions? Who could live in something so…
The evolution of the driveway house is part of my personal journey of hope. By hope I mean; finding or making hope in unexpected places, in unexpected ways while working with the skills and sensibilities of the people of the community in which I gratefully live. Now some of you think that would be easy and I wish it were,…
Hi Folks it has been a very very busy week for me and I’m grateful to Nottingham (a.k.a. Toronto) for the work. In the next few weeks I will be writing on the genesis of the Driveway House, otherwise known as 1294 College Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In the meantime let me start off with a few pictures professionally down by…
This morning I was listening to Michael Enright of the CBC Radio interview Mary Pratt – Artist and wife of Christopher Pratt. Mary had raised 4 kids with Christopher and allowed him to be the main breadwinner and light for the family. Although quite talented and gifted Mary dimmed her light and drive back in the day to give that…
Part of an older blog from Aug. 25th, 2013: Is Architecture Dead? … in Toronto … Part 7 About 3 or 4 years ago, I had the privilege of introducing this project to several building code city engineers for their opinions and to discuss the possibility of this Water House proposal as it related to building code. By and large,…
Is Architecture Dead … in Toronto? Part 6 1. The architecture of Survival is alive. 2. The architecture of Utility is alive. (Reactive Utilitarianism) 3. The architecture of comfort is dead. (For all intents and purposes) 4. The architecture of luxury is dead. (For all intents and purposes) What are some of the steps that might bring life back to…
Is Architecture Dead … in Toronto? Part 6 This week I’m going to take I had to take a bit of a break from writing due to the fact of having my home/studio be filmed by HGTV Extreme homes – a collaboration between the London England office and the Nashville U.S.A office. (http://www.hgtv.ca/extremehomes/). I had to do a very large…
Our provincial government is in the process of choosing if the design our public light Rail stations will be done by individual architects or will a large design-build consortium be used to design the chain of them instead of local architects? The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) is frightened because large national or international firms would likely control the process…
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