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A Raw Cedar Bath Tub for Relaxing In
A suite at Amsterdam’s Volkshotel puts the bathroom front and centre with a Japanese tub made of raw cedar. Hanna Maring’s Bathing Bikou suite at Amsterdam’s Volkshotel is one of nine rooms in the trendy hotel that have been created by different designers, architects –
A Raw Cedar Bath Tub for Relaxing In
A suite at Amsterdam’s Volkshotel puts the bathroom front and centre with a Japanese tub made of raw cedar. Hanna Maring’s Bathing Bikou suite at Amsterdam’s Volkshotel is one of nine rooms in the trendy hotel that have been created by different designers, architects –
Traveling Collector: Border Crossing
A strong U.S. dollar is reason enough to visit Montreal. Montreal is French at heart, but street level it’s a modern-day Babylon– decadent, hedonistic and multi-lingual. About 60 percent of Montrealers are Francophones, but they find themselves awash in a
Traveling Collector: Border Crossing
A strong U.S. dollar is reason enough to visit Montreal. Montreal is French at heart, but street level it’s a modern-day Babylon– decadent, hedonistic and multi-lingual. About 60 percent of Montrealers are Francophones, but they find themselves awash in a
Good to the last drop
The corporatization of McGill University continues unabated, threatening the future of the successful student-run architecture café. In the early ’90s, for a senior studio course entitled Design and Construction, graduating McGill architecture students installed the furnishings for a café in
Good to the last drop
The corporatization of McGill University continues unabated, threatening the future of the successful student-run architecture café. In the early ’90s, for a senior studio course entitled Design and Construction, graduating McGill architecture students installed the furnishings for a café in
Bar Italia
The modern, minimalist decor and 20-something regulars milling around the bar may seem intimidating at first, but don’t let that stop you from venturing past the scrum into the large main-floor dining room. The staff, as hip as the hipsters
Bar Italia
The modern, minimalist decor and 20-something regulars milling around the bar may seem intimidating at first, but don’t let that stop you from venturing past the scrum into the large main-floor dining room. The staff, as hip as the hipsters
Court of appeal
Ruscio Studio transforms a typically less-than-appetizing mall food court–in Chicoutimi, Que.– from drab to fab. It doesn’t take a big city restaurant critic to note that most shopping mall food courts are the pits of possible dining experiences. They are
Court of appeal
Ruscio Studio transforms a typically less-than-appetizing mall food court–in Chicoutimi, Que.– from drab to fab. It doesn’t take a big city restaurant critic to note that most shopping mall food courts are the pits of possible dining experiences. They are
Saving the Metropolitan Bible Church (and was it really worth it?)
Built in 1933, smack in the middle of the Great Depression, Ottawa’s Metropolitan Bible Church looks the part of a pious movie palace. It’s no coincidence. The financiers demanded that the church be built as a venue for moving picture
Saving the Metropolitan Bible Church (and was it really worth it?)
Built in 1933, smack in the middle of the Great Depression, Ottawa’s Metropolitan Bible Church looks the part of a pious movie palace. It’s no coincidence. The financiers demanded that the church be built as a venue for moving picture
Café Pleiade
You can be too thin–as demonstrated by this nearly inconspicuous spot squeezed among Mount Pleasant’s bric-a-brac and antique shops. Inside, its Lilliputian dimensions become a virtue: the space is intimate and homey (crisps linens notwithstanding), with an air of casual
Café Pleiade
You can be too thin–as demonstrated by this nearly inconspicuous spot squeezed among Mount Pleasant’s bric-a-brac and antique shops. Inside, its Lilliputian dimensions become a virtue: the space is intimate and homey (crisps linens notwithstanding), with an air of casual
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