Heritage Matters  contributor

• Economics of heritage
  Buildings and architecture
  Adaptive reuse

One of the greater pleasures of working in architectural conservation in Ontario is the opportunity it provides to work with …

• Buildings and architecture

An undiscovered legacy of work left by landscape architects Charles and Frederick Olmsted Jr. exists in fragments of landscape …

• Buildings and architecture

Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre is an inward-looking building of interior architecture. The exterior, by …

• Buildings and architecture
  Community

Eastern Ontario offers an array of impressive historic houses. Some of these houses – owned and operated by the Ontario …

• Buildings and architecture
  Adaptive reuse

In his 1947 essay titled “The Past in the Future,” architectural historian John Summerson (1904-92) offered this description of …

• Buildings and architecture
  Community

The towering McIntyre Mine Headframe in Timmins. The Clergue Block House and Powder Magazine in Sault Ste Marie. St. Francis of …

• Buildings and architecture
  Environment

Which is more sustainable – an artificial or live Christmas tree? This is an environmentalist’s conundrum, and it illustrates …

• Buildings and architecture

Façade: a word of double-edged meaning. Architecturally, it refers to the face of a building. In literature, …

• Community
  Cultural landscapes

On a windswept summer day in 2005, a small congregation gathered beside a cloverleaf off-ramp at the western fringe of Toronto. …

• Archaeology
  Buildings and architecture
  Cultural objects
  Tools for conservation

Wallpapers first appeared in Canada as early as the mid-17th century. These oldest papers were block-printed, hand-painted or …