Category: Articles
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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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The Green Knight
With my background in medieval literature, it was a great pleasure to review David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) for Cinema Scope. Find my review in the Fall issue with Tilda Swinton on the cover. With many thanks to Andrew Tracy, Kate Parkes, and Abby Clinton. Andrew Droz Palermo’s comments thanks to Filmmaker Magazine and…
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Checking in on the Connolly
My Saturday op-ed on the Connolly and James Street Baptist, the partially demolished former church in downtown Hamilton. Print: “Checking in on the Connolly,” February 13, 2021, A17 | online: “Hamilton’s infamous church facade: a check-in on the Connolly,” February 12, 2021 With thanks to Paul Wilson, Lucasz Wywrot, John Wilcox of Vitreous Glassworks, Samantha…
Sarah Sheehan 