Category: Articles
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Concrete Futures
I was honoured to be invited to contribute to the Extraction issue of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (JSSAC). Building on my CBC opinion piece on adaptive reuse and the climate crisis, my new article explores questions of materiality, heritage, and modernism in Canada, through the lens of…
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Preaching to the Converted
Highlighted on the cover! I had the privilege of writing about 16 West and other Hamilton-area church reuse projects for HAMILTON CITY Magazine. 16 West is an award-winning project that saw a designated church rapidly and cost-effectively transformed into rental apartments. The Made in Hamilton Issue also includes pieces on two organizations mentioned in my…
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Ghost Landscape: cover story
Exciting news: Ghost Landscape is on the cover of Ground magazine! I wrote about Woodlands Park: Ghost Landscape for the magazine’s Artifact page. The theme for Ground’s Winter 2022 issue is “Neighbours.” With thanks to Glyn Bowerman, Jasper Flores, and Noël Nanton/typotherapy. Ground: Landscape Architect Quarterly (est. 2008) is the magazine of the Ontario Association…
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The last Southam house
For the Victoria Day edition of the Toronto Star, I wrote about keeping Chedoke estate public — and the lost opportunities, including for significant revenue, that can result from privatizing it. Update: Featured in the June edition of ACORN in a Nutshell: The Newsletter of Architectural Conservancy Ontario. Also known as Balfour House, Chedoke is…
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Pucci (Paper) Patterns
I had the pleasure of writing about Emilio Pucci’s licensed commercial sewing patterns for Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America. “Pucci (Paper) Patterns, 1956–73” is online now and will appear in the next print issue of Dress, vol. 48, no. 1, in Spring 2022. Update (May ’22): Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan,…
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Save a building, fight climate change
I wrote a CBC opinion piece on adaptive reuse, the climate crisis, and how we can rethink architectural waste and obsolescence. Online: “Save a building, fight climate change,” January 26, 2022. With thanks to Jim Brown, Chris Wiebe, and Eva Salinas. Mark Thompson Brandt’s comments via the National Trust for Canada’s December 2021 Gathering of…
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