Art Condos Blog

How to Replace the Vanity Lights

Gary Marriott — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:14:49 +0000

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Light show a lure at ART Condos

Gary Marriott — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:03:08 +0000

A great write up from the Toronto Star on January 11th 2014, LINK to online article and to Scanned local copy:-

“Andrew Shields knows it’s time to walk his dog when the evening light show begins in the loading …

Great News! ART’s been awarded again

Gary Marriott — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:18:01 +0000

Great News! ART’s been awarded again at the Ontario Concrete Award 2013…

ART Condos Wins Prestigious Urban Design Award

Gary Marriott — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:14:22 +0000

Fantastic new ART Condos has won an Urban Design Award, see page 26 (Sect 1:22) in the linked to pdf, a clip of which appears below.

“Jury Comment
Art Condominiums offers a thorough and robust response to current civic …

BAAB [Business is Art/Art is Business]

Gary Marriott — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:45:05 +0000

Because it mounts up the outside of north wall of the Art Condos building, right beside the building’s loading dock, it may not be much noticed by Art Condos owners or their neighbours. But the fact is, the BAAB mural–made …

2nd Floor Meeting Room Demonstration – Extended Version

Gary Marriott — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:16:11 +0000

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Five great Toronto condos… From The Globe and Mail

Gary Marriott — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:11:27 +0000

See the original article at The Globe and Mail(#5 in the Gallery), or download the printed version below.

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Architecture Lisa Rochon chooses five buildings that give back to the city

“ART Condos. Oleson Worland Architects …

Communicating by Oscar Figueroa

Gary Marriott — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:29:03 +0000

One of the highlights of Oscar Figueroa’s exhibition Air Plane—now installed in the Art Condos Loading Dock—is this work titled Communicating.

It seems simple enough. A desk lamp, fitted with a red bulb, is positioned on the floor, near the …

Peony Time

Gary Marriott — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:15:39 +0000

June is Peony time and nothing will fill your condo with such a sweet, intoxicating fragrance as a big generous bowl of them, lush and lavishly arranged. Poppies, at 1094 Queen street West, will design a bundle of them for …

Green Desk Inabstracto

Gary Marriott — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:00:43 +0000

Following the success of their sleek, blue, compact 001 desk—perfectly scaled for condo use– Toronto’s Projector Design has now released a second desk, the handsome green 002 desk, designed by Chris Stevenson and Matt Conacher.

The desk’s high-gloss sides are …

Olive Bread at Mabel’s

Gary Marriott — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:04:27 +0000

About the Neighbourhood
Olive Bread at Mabel’s

While bread is basic, archetypal food, it’s still not easy to find a good honest loaf of it.

In an essay called “The Staff of Life” in his book, Remember to Remember, Henry …

5th Floor Amenity AV Tutorial

Gary Marriott — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:55:37 +0000

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2nd Floor Meeting Room AV Tutorial – Short Version

Gary Marriott — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:54:31 +0000

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2nd Floor Theatre Room AV Tutorial

Gary Marriott — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:54:39 +0000

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Oscar Figueroa – Art on the Loading Dock

Gary Marriott — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:16:52 +0000

Beginning Tuesday evening, June 11, the Art Condos Loading Dock–not long ago the site of the now historical Art Condos Parka Party–will become a contemporary art gallery, offering an exhibition titled Air Plane by Oscar Figueroa. Curated by artist and …

ART CONDOS Loading Dock Exhibition

administrator — Wed, 29 May 2013 20:11:48 +0000

This is artist Oscar Figueroa. He is just graduating from OCADU (The Ontario College of Art and Design University).

He is a bit out of focus–because that’s how artists are sometimes.

Figueroa will soon be in greatly improved focus, however, …

ART Condos in the news

administrator — Mon, 27 May 2013 20:17:46 +0000

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Art We Love: Lynne Cohen

administrator — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:21:16 +0000

Montreal-based mega-photographer, Lynne Cohen, has built an international reputation making large-scale photographs of the frightening–though sometimes beautiful and inexplicably moving–emptiness and absences of the contemporary urban environment. Here, in this recent work, her cunning use of mirroring compounds the aridity

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Queen West Coffee – Rsquared

administrator — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:50:46 +0000

We used to enjoy having an early morning coffee at Quaff at 668 Queen Street West, but now we enjoy it even more at Rsquared–which, though it is at the same location, has been extensively redesigned and culinarily reorganized by …

ART Condos ‘How To’

administrator — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:01:22 +0000

Considering that we live in entirely technical times, it’s almost amusing to consider how easily befuddled most of us still are by digital tools and their modus operandi.

The new Art Condos building offers its condo-owners a beautiful and extremely …

About the neighbourhood: a favour for our furry friends.

administrator — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:59:03 +0000

We were sauntering along Queen Street West a couple of days ago, enjoying the brand-new sunshine, when we noticed–in front of a store called Heel Boy, near Trinity-Bellwoods Park–this delighted little dog, munching happily at the bone-shaped biscuits and lapping …

The Little Bed That Could.

administrator — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:50:26 +0000

Given this expedient age’s tendency to throw everything away and buy new, we think it’s refreshing that TEB Interiors–whose principal, Terry Edward Briceland designed the Art Condos model suites–took on the refurbishing of this elderly settee. Seeing the object as …

Design We Love – Venice Chairs

administrator — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:38:58 +0000

These exquisite, custom-made, classical Venice chairs from Industrial Storm somehow manage to epitomize both modernist severity and economy of line with with a luxurious sense of timeless, old-world comfort. The chairs come in two models (one slightly larger than the …

ART WE LOVE: HWEON 1 by CHUNG-IM KIM

administrator — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:33:04 +0000

Hovering somewhere between painting, drawing and sculpture—and between pure visual art and design—Chung-Im Kim’s wall-mounted, hand-stitched felt plaque (which has been silkscreened), is a crisply vibrant work that seems simultaneously static and yet full of spinning, torque-like movement.

It sells …

MONDO CONDO: Jordan MacLachlan

administrator — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:14:54 +0000

CONDO LIVING
Jordan MacLachlan

April 11 – May 11, 2013
Opening reception: April 11, 5 – 8 pm
80 Spadina Ave. Suite 208

ArtBarrage is pleased to present Jordan MacLachlan’s Condo Living installation at the ArtBarrage gallery at 80 Spadina …