Showing posts with label London Ontario buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London Ontario buildings. Show all posts
Sunday, December 1, 2024

A North London Estate

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A London city staff report supports a property owner's bid to remove an 1870s house from the city's heritage registry. If approved, ...
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Saturday, February 10, 2024

Redevelopment Fit For a Princess

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  Domus Developments would like to renovate 300 and 306 Princess Avenue, above, into nine-unit apartment buildings. Each old home would be d...
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Thursday, July 6, 2023

What are London Doorways? A new book about London, Ontario's unique entranceway

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ACO London has produced another attractive and informative book about London, Ontario architecture. It's called London Doorways: An Expa...
Friday, May 27, 2022

London Buildings: Georgian

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Symmetry is one of the oldest continuously-used principles in architecture. It's about harmony and balance, components mirroring each ot...
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Sunday, April 10, 2022

My 10 Least Favourite London, Ontario Buildings

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Ever since I listed my favourite London buildings  here , I've been trying to decide what I'd put on a list of my least favourite. I...
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Monday, May 31, 2021

London Buildings: Double Houses

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Midway between  terrace housing  and the detached home is the double house - that is, a house divided vertically by a common wall, designed ...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

London Buildings: Terrace housing

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A 19th-century term for row housing, terrace housing refers to identical or mirror-image houses sharing side walls. Such terraces were a t...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

London Buildings: Ontario Cottage

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One of the most common home styles in London is the Ontario cottage, popular from the early days of settlement right through to the early 2...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

London Buildings: Italianate

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A walk through London's older neighbourhoods provides fans of Victorian buildings with some true architectural delights. One of the more...
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