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2023/AUG/21
Lowell Lo
This older townhouse development is located in the suburbs of Don Mills, Toronto, and was built around the early 1960s. It is one of the most utopian social-housing-like typologies in the city, having...
My quick watercolour and pencil crayon sketches demonstrate a low-cost method for shading apartment units, particularly for west-facing facades. The planters can be DIY sub-irrigated reservoir...
2022/AUG/03
Scadding Court Community Centre at Chinatown (above). I connected with several recent Art Collage graduates during the pandemic. We were eager to meet to 'en plein air' sketch. I brought my...