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…
Art & Culture
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…