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Popular Mechanics has 19 of the weirdest houses ever designed.

The (new) Hedge Society

The Hedge Society has been re-launched as a group blog.  It’s a little blog about a lot of things and I will be posting some of the fun stuff from Jordon Cooper Outfitters over there as well as some of the stuff that may or may not end up here.  I’m kind of excited about [...]

Affordable Rental Suites in Winnipeg

For all of the news about affordable housing in Saskatoon, most of the affordable housing units are still over $200,000.  There is still a huge need for low rent units.  A company in Winnipeg is solving both the problem of creating low rent apartments and finding a solution for how to build on narrow abandoned [...]

The New Arrowhead Stadium

Despite being a Denver Broncos fan since I was a kid, I have always loved the look of Arrowhead Stadium (as well as a huge fan of Hank Stram).  While I like to cheer against the Chiefs, I have always wanted to go and see a game there.  Now that I have seen what they [...]

University Website Design

AKMA has a fun graphic on how universities design their websites and how it’s not at all what we want.  The same could be said about churches and many other NGOs.

The Crib by Broadhurst Architects

I posted more about it here.

Katrina Cottages

I just blogged about this over at The Cooper Cabin.  They are Katrina Cottages and are low cost but significant upgrades over the FEMA trailers designed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  As soon as I saw them and some other low impact houses over the years, I can’t help but think of them as [...]

A Review of Regina’s new logo

  Regina’s got a new logo that has generated some international attention. Enough quoting. The R icon is definitely attractive and eye-catching. While there could probably be a few more twists, both literally and metaphorically, in the ribbon to make the dimensionality work a little better, I think it’s a fairly convincing result. I like [...]

Municipal Matters get a new look

While I liked the old version of Sean Shaw’s blog, Municipal Matters, I am really liking the new look and feel to his blog on Saskatoon politics and governance.  If you get a chance, check it out along with a couple other Saskatoon civic blogs that are a lot of fun reading, even when we [...]

My favorite designs from the Cooper Cabin blog

When we bought the cabin, I put up a quick free blog hosted on Blogspot to post photos to so we could show the changes the cabin has gone through.  While we have done that, I have posted a lot of design and architecture links to it as well which has generated a growing amount [...]

Build yourself an igloo

As a kid I remember thinking how cool it would be to live in an igloo (although at the time I couldn’t figure out how a structure built from ice would be warm.  I posted more information over at Jordon Cooper Outfitters.

An Opera House on Wheels?

  It’s not quite the Sydney Opera House on wheels but it is a pop up camper that bears a strong resemblance to it.  I love it when designers totally reinvent a fairly stagnant product and give it fresh life like this.

Review of the renovated Credit Union Centre

I was in (the then Saskatchewan Place) for it’s first game in 1988.  It was a horseshoe configuration with the one end open on top and bottom while the other end was open in the upper bowl only.  Over the years the top bowl was completed on one end and for the World Junior Hockey [...]

Jordon Cooper Outfitters

One of the things that I enjoyed this fall was creating the series of Christmas Gift Idea posts that so many people criticized this fall.  While there was some negative comments, the response was overwhelmingly positive from complete strangers who really enjoyed those features and said it made Christmas shopping a lot easier on them. [...]