Azure asks an important question

Azure, the magazine about art, architecture, design and interiors, tackles a touchy subject that should set the chattering classes abuzz: a cover story in its September issue by John Bentley Mays, asks pointedly about the Daniel Liebskind-designed Michael Lee-Chin Crystal addition to the venerable Royal Ontario Museum.

Easy to hate, impossible to simply like, does the Crystal show the future or simply mirror our showbizzy present?

Small but provocative, little magazines sparked debate about architecture

Nice piece in the Sunday Toronto Star by Toronto freelancer Ryan Bigge about little architecture and design magazines. The article is focussed on a show at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. It's called Clip/Stamp/Fold 2: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X — 197X and runs until Sept. 9. It's a travelling exhibition that originated at Princeton University; its also on view in Kassel, Germany.

The exhibit features about 70 little magazines that were published in the 60s and 70s to provoke debate about architecture and design. Original copies of the magazines are available for viewing, and complete facsimiles for browsing.