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How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? In Part 2 of my conversation with Alex Bulmer, we…

Seen any interesting buildings lately? What if you literally couldn’t see them? What if you could only experience buildings through…

By Peter Coffman It’s hard to find two towns in Canada further apart than Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and Dawson City,…

For four days in June, Michigan’s remote Keweenaw Peninsula hosted architectural historians from across North America. Among them were Carleton…

The Tr’ondek Hwech’in fishing camp of Tr'ochëk once stood on the flat land in the left middle-ground, where the Yukon…

By Peter Coffman Imagine a stream cascading down a mountain, winding through a lush forest of evergreen and deciduous trees,…

Dawson City and the Yukon River. By Peter Coffman During his one and only Klondike winter, writer Jack London (of…

Dawson City, Yukon. By Peter Coffman If I say “Dawson City”, you may think “Gold Rush! Canada’s wild west! The…

St. Anne's Church, Toronto, by Ford Howland (1907). By Peter Coffman I don’t enjoy writing eulogies, and I don’t think…

The Morrisseau Project, led by Carleton University Professor Carmen Robertson and partnering with The MacKenzie Art Gallery (MAG) of Regina,…

The Red Brick School, Elgin, Ontario, from the south-east. By Peter Coffman We live in a time when education seems…

(This blog resumes a discussion of 24 Sussex Drive begun here and continued here.) What if, in spite of all…