The renovation of the Bank of Canada headquarters in Ottawa was bound to be controversial, altering, as it did, a building by one of Canada's darlings of architecture (and for good reason), Arthur Erickson. Adding to or updating an iconic structure is always a daunting task, as it requires landing deftly...

I find it curious that Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the paragons of modern architecture, was approached for comment on the matter of Toronto's new city hall. Toronto then was still a parochial, industrial town in which the already minimal focus on the built form was pointed predominantly at infrastructure...