Latest articles by Hadani Ditmars
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Explore the Perry Estate, a lesser-known Arthur Erickson project in Canada
The Perry estate – a residence and studio built for sculptor Frank Perry and often visited by his friend Bill Reid – is now on the market in North Vancouver
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Tour this Bel Vista house by Albert Frey, restored to its former glory in Palm Springs
An Albert Frey Bel Vista house has been restored and praised for its revival - just in time for the 2025 Palm Springs Modernism Week Preview
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Arthur Erickson's Museum of Anthropology at UBC has been given a new lease of life in Vancouver
After an extensive renovation, The Museum of Anthropology is part Shinto shrine, part cathedral, part longhouse – and a temple to learning
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Join the West Coast Modern Week's Home Tour 2024 for modernist architecture and more
West Coast Modern Week 2024 comes with its annual home tour courtesy of the West Vancouver Art Museum, offering an extensive, immersive showcase of Canada's modernist architecture
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Downs House II inspires West Coast Modern campaign in Vancouver
Downs House II, currently on the market in Vancouver, inspires a West Coast Modern campaign to save the modernist landmark
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In memoriam: architect Antoine Predock (1936-2024)
The late Antoine Predock has left a lasting, international architectural legacy and portfolio, from residential designs to art museums
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This Walter S White house in Indio is given a new lease of life
This Walter S White house in Indio, California, has been redesigned for the 21st century by Sean Gaston
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Art Dubai 2024 considers community and belonging
What to see at Art Dubai 2024 this weekend, an oasis of art, design and ideas
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Dallas' new Hôtel Swexan caters to old souls and the young at heart
Hôtel Swexan is a new classic character in the cultural history of Texas
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Discover Dyde House, a lesser known Arthur Erickson gem
Dyde House by modernist architect Arthur Erickson is celebrated in a new film, premiered in Canada
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Omer Arbel’s 75.9 house in Vancouver is timeless yet extraterrestrial
Bocci creative director Omer Arbel’s latest house, in the Canadian Pacific Northwest, makes use of columnar roof forms and the local landscape to create a hidden gem
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In memoriam: Rifat Chadirji (1926 – 2020)
We look back to the life and work of prominent Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji, considered by many the father of modern Iraqi architecture, who has passed away aged 93
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Paul Rudolph’s Walker House replica in Palm Springs is up for auction
This year's Palm Springs Modernism Week presents the last chance to see the iconic midcentury modern Walker Guest House designed by Paul Rudolph in the 1950s ahead of its sale at the end of the month through Heritage Auctions
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Battersby Howat creates bold geometry for a ravine-hugging home in North Vancouver
Challenging topography and a triangular lot inspired this modernist mountainside retreat designed for an entrepreneur
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Beaux arts and brutalism reimagined on the Ottawa architecture scene
Canada’s national capital is a theatrical set piece of symbolic real estate, with Parliament Hill, Confederation Square and the Senate all within a few hundred metres of each other. Here architecture is a performative act.
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Imagining a new Thames pedestrian bridge in East London
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Vancouver House by BIG gears up for completion
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Scale meets ambition in Vancouver’s architectural future
The latest instalment in our ‘Letter from...' series journeys through the urban future of Canada's ‘most liveable city’
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Arthur Mudry’s midcentury modern house in West Vancouver is a paean to the Pacific forest
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Join our tour of Freiburg, the German city leading the way in sustainable architecture
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Ones to watch on Canada’s west coast design scene
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Tour West Vancouver’s considerable cache of midcentury modernist homes
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Vancouver exhibition celebrates mid-century architecture photographer Selwyn Pullan
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Landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on why it should be easier to be green
A version of this article originally appeared in the May 2018 issue of Wallpaper* (W*230)
