Spaces By Rohan
Spaces By Rohan
Delayed until next week the follow up from part 3 – “How might we bring elements of comfort and luxury back to the architecture of survival and necessity? In other words, how might we raise the level of conscious art/process into the seemingly mundane world of necessity inhabited by the majority? Should we? Could we?” In the meantime something relevant…
Let me apologize in advance … YES and NO!! In my opinion there are 4 types of design in architecture: 1) Architecture of Survival 2) Architecture of Necessity 3) Architecture of Comfort 4) Architecture of Luxury, i.e., idiosyncratic design So we will live under trees, in caves and caverns, covered parking garages, stairwells, under tarps, under fallen rocks, sleep under…
Continued from last week: I was invited for an absolutely fabulous meal tonight. The food was creative. It had been chosen and cooked with care. Beautifully smoked chicken, mini cucumber and blue berry salad with a rice wine vinegar dressing. The desert was goats cheese-milk sweetened sorbet with mango chunks. A meal is architecture. A meal like this sews the…
I was sitting in the office of a lawyer the other day. He was going over a contract that I had been sent from a prospective suitor for my services. I am a designer of buildings and integrator of concepts that involve buildings.I am a designer of small buildings and homes as I am licensed through the province on a…
I had the privilege of having the Architourist, David LeBlanc and the Globe and Mail Newspaper take an interest in my work. Here it is. Home on a parking spot – [People Before Cars] DAVE LEBLANC Special to The Globe and Mail Last updated Thursday, Jun. 20 2013, 11:18 AM EDT ‘I love a challenge,” Rohan Walters says with a laugh as he…
Jennifer Scaife, the realtor who sold 157 Coxwell Avenue, received this request in her email yesterday and copied me on it. I will, of course, not interfere with the desire and response by its present owner. It is nice to still receive indications of interest. The last HGTV (Home and Garden Television) interview I did was program called – “LOOK…
This Post is from our Community organization Residents for A Quiet Ride: https://www.facebook.com/residentsforaquietride The Handsome TTC inspector at College Street and Lansdowne Avenue, Thursday June 13, 2013 in the afternoon. I’m riding home after a morning meeting and a trip to my bank. As I am passing Brock Avenue heading west I see and unusual sight, a streetcar driver heading…
Although Art Wood (an owner) and Todd Irvine (the arborist) forgot to mention Spaces By Rohan Inc. on the Jane’s Walk Tour of 1 Crown Park Avenue in the Beach the other weekend, Alan Hall (the other owner who was out of town that weekend) was kind enough to send me the link from the community paper. I hired Todd…
I have not physically been to Nottingham however I did grow up in this Euro-Western culture reading and watching plays, movies and the like about the sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood. One of my favourite tales for many reasons. Somehow in my mind Toronto/Ontario Bureaucracy evokes images of the sheriff of Nottingham for me. So many of use just…
Is Architecture Dead … In Toronto … takes a pause for this week in honour of Travon Martin. Travon Martin … a beauty that makes me a little more reflective than usual this week.
This will be short. In this lifetime I was born into the body of a black male. I have had the privilege of living each day after being maliciously attacked at a playground in Toronto at the age of 6 by many white kids most older than me. I was bloodied and bruised. It felt as though I was going…