Have you ever heard of a house that has it’s own hashtag? Architect Agata Mancini’s house does. The #greendoorhouse stands alone as a contemporary splash on a historic street. Agata and her husband To…
Art & Culture
Francis Fougere presents The Carports of Pleasant Valley
Inspired by his childhood home in suburban Montreal, Photographer Francis Fougere is bringing his latest photo series “The Carports of Pleasant Valley” to the Dundas Carnegie Gallery from June 2nd to …
The Quilted Portrait
Meet Quilted Portrait aka Jeff (Fuzzy) Mall; a quiet little guy with a big beard that’s behind an art project called Faces of Hamilton. He’s a self-taught artist that recently moved from Pittsburgh t…
Auchmar Manor House
For nearly 165 years, Auchmar — a pre-Confederation gothic manor — has sat perched upon the Hamilton Mountain, built at a time before Mohawk College and big-box stores populated the neighbourhood. Con…
The Death Of The Fawcett House And A Call To Save Modernity
So long, Fawcett House. A Trevor Garwood-Jones jewel located at the edge of Sydenham Hill in Dundas, with an incredible vista of the valley, has just been demolished. This marks a similar trend happen…
Hamilton Youth Poets – Louder Than A Bomb
With Hamilton’s art, food, and music scenes garnering more and more attention, there’s another incredible art form that’s right there under the radar. Hamilton Youth Poets (HYP) was …
Architecture Crawl 2.0
It has been just over 2 years now since the Hamilton Burlington Society of Architects hosted their first Architecture Crawl (during the OAA Annual General Meeting). Finally, after much anticipation, t…
Q&A with Principal Architect Bill Curran
You went to the University of Waterloo to study architecture. What brought you back to Hamilton? Just serendipity. I never really planned to come back to Hamilton, I never thought there’d be an opport…
Hamilton Public Library – Makerspace
First off, I must admit my bias. I love our libraries. In light of comments Ward 7 Councillor Donna Skelly made during a meeting a few months back, where she questioned a proposed increase to the libr…