A Curated Collection of Ideas, Adventures, Places and People from around the world.
Learning from the way people live and the environments they inhabit.
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
ESSAYS FROM THE ROAD
Browse through some of my top blog posts, favourite new ideas I’ve learned about and random click bait supported by beautiful photo material. Through my lens you’ll only get to experience the world beyond tourist traps and the all too common must see destinations: real life – no staging, no duck face.
Frank Gehry: The Architect Who Showed Us Movement in Architecture
On losing Frank Gehry, and remembering the decades he spent transforming material, space, and the future of architecture forever. When I woke up today I didn’t plan to write an obituary, I’ve never written one…
The Anti-Mall: How Comuna 13 Outperformed Urban Planners
The Neighbourhood That Rewrote Medellín Cities spend billions trying to “activate” public space. Comuna 13 did it with brick, paint, music, and a set of escalators clawing up a mountainside. Walking into it feels like…
Gran Hotel Ciudad de México: A Hidden Glass Ceiling in the Heart of Centro Histórico
In Search of the World’s Most Beautiful Glass Ceiling Field Reflection: I wasn’t planning to write about an elevator today. But maybe I should’ve seen it coming. Every trip ends with one. As for now,…
LATEST ADVENTURES
Introducitons
Hi! I’m Josh
I am a Canadian with a passion for urban design and a fascination for the world’s rich history. As a part-time world explorer and full-time design enthusiast, I am devoted to discovering and documenting the remarkable architecture that helps tell the story of our past.
For the past decade I worked from my design studio in Toronto, along with my Partner and fellow nomad Stas. Together we’ve created award winning public space experiences, ignited national conversations about accessibility, and championed environmental protection infrastructure projects.
Beginning in 2019 we set out on a multi-year journey around the world to document inspiring design. Explore the world with us and learn about new ideas, the things we are building and how you can make a difference.
Keep in mind, like us, this blog is a work in progress, never perfect, and always changing.
Projects
#SitTO
Public Space
What started as a guerrilla intervention to add public seating around the city evolved into a broader conversation on how we use our public spaces. watch the video.
Vertical Transportation
Elevator Scene is an experimental design studio in the vertical transportation industry working to rethink how people & goods move through cities. learn more.
The Bell Pay Phone Project
Documenting Toronto’s built landscape through photography one pay phone at a time.
view project.
On The Road with 17 North North East
Two Canadian boys dedicated to exploring the world, architectural spaces and the greater natural landscape.… visit the gram
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Travel Log
Climbing Mt Marcy
Aug 11, 2018.
Mount Marcy is the highest point in the State of New York. With an elevation of 1,629 m the mountain is in the heart of the Adirondack High Peaks, a region of mountains that owes much to glaciation and tectonic shifts. Its stature and expansive views make it a popular destination for hikers, who crowd its summit in the summer months. The region contains many alpine lakes and meadows, wetlands, streams, and forests.
Keep in mind, like us, this blog is a work in progress, never perfect, and always changing.
Some Words to Live By
― Kat Lahr,
“Humans have wandered the Earth for thousands of years but never has our capacity to alter the Earth’s ecosystem at a larger scale been more prominent than it is today.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”
― Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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