Alex Bozikovic
@alexbozikovic.bsky.social
Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, University of Toronto Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
The federal government has the power of the purse. They just tried to use it to push cities into rezoning, a powerful strategy, and then caved at the first sign of pushback.
Lots of blame to go around.
Lots of blame to go around.
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
The federal government has the power of the purse. They just tried to use it to push cities into rezoning, a powerful strategy, and then caved at the first sign of pushback.
Lots of blame to go around.
Lots of blame to go around.
If septuagenarian Johnny Lucas doesn’t like living in a growing city, *he* should move to Cornwall.
"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street.
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
February 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
If septuagenarian Johnny Lucas doesn’t like living in a growing city, *he* should move to Cornwall.
Renderings of the new med school
wing @utoronto.ca, @mvrdv.bsky.social w @diamondschmitt.bsky.social.
wing @utoronto.ca, @mvrdv.bsky.social w @diamondschmitt.bsky.social.
February 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Renderings of the new med school
wing @utoronto.ca, @mvrdv.bsky.social w @diamondschmitt.bsky.social.
wing @utoronto.ca, @mvrdv.bsky.social w @diamondschmitt.bsky.social.
. @novakovicto.bsky.social returns to the field with a new publication, Expo,
and an excellent essay on diversity in Canadian architefture. www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...
and an excellent essay on diversity in Canadian architefture. www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...
Multiculturalism Shapes Canadian Life. Does it Shape our Architecture? — EXPO the magazine
As the country’s diverse, multi-ethnic population now finds proud expression in arts and culture, the built environment stands at the precipice of a quiet evolution.
www.expothemagazine.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:20 AM
. @novakovicto.bsky.social returns to the field with a new publication, Expo,
and an excellent essay on diversity in Canadian architefture. www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...
and an excellent essay on diversity in Canadian architefture. www.expothemagazine.com/expo-essays/...
This argument from @tylermeredith.bsky.social and Tim Richter is welcome but also very vague.
Major questions remain unanswered: Where exactly should Canada build housing, both affordable and market? In what architectural and urban form?
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Major questions remain unanswered: Where exactly should Canada build housing, both affordable and market? In what architectural and urban form?
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: One grand bargain to fight Canada’s housing crisis
Canada has a narrow but historic window to tackle this crisis and rebuild our housing system
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This argument from @tylermeredith.bsky.social and Tim Richter is welcome but also very vague.
Major questions remain unanswered: Where exactly should Canada build housing, both affordable and market? In what architectural and urban form?
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Major questions remain unanswered: Where exactly should Canada build housing, both affordable and market? In what architectural and urban form?
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
The federal government should be much *more* aggressive with Toronto.
It is the place in Canada that most badly needs and could best deliver more housing.
It is the place in Canada that most badly needs and could best deliver more housing.
At bedtime 6-year-old and I were discussing how libraries and other services we enjoy are funded by taxes. He said, "So if there are more people, then the government can have more money to do stuff." More neighbours please!
honestly the Federal Liberals need to be meaner to municipalities that refuse to upzone and yet ask for HAF funding
more density in toronto means more urban votes
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
more density in toronto means more urban votes
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
January 31, 2026 at 1:10 PM
The federal government should be much *more* aggressive with Toronto.
It is the place in Canada that most badly needs and could best deliver more housing.
It is the place in Canada that most badly needs and could best deliver more housing.
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Just a fundamentally evil, malevolent person. Rotten to the very core.
January 30, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Just a fundamentally evil, malevolent person. Rotten to the very core.
236 homes a year = one midsize apartment building.
People keep claiming that ADUs are going to take off in Toronto, and huge amounts of effort and political capital have been expended on this.
This is the thin edge of the wedge or it's a waste of time.
schoolofcities.github.io/gentle-densi...
People keep claiming that ADUs are going to take off in Toronto, and huge amounts of effort and political capital have been expended on this.
This is the thin edge of the wedge or it's a waste of time.
schoolofcities.github.io/gentle-densi...
Backyard housing in Toronto
Mapping laneway and garden suite development, 2018–2025
schoolofcities.github.io
January 29, 2026 at 4:43 PM
236 homes a year = one midsize apartment building.
People keep claiming that ADUs are going to take off in Toronto, and huge amounts of effort and political capital have been expended on this.
This is the thin edge of the wedge or it's a waste of time.
schoolofcities.github.io/gentle-densi...
People keep claiming that ADUs are going to take off in Toronto, and huge amounts of effort and political capital have been expended on this.
This is the thin edge of the wedge or it's a waste of time.
schoolofcities.github.io/gentle-densi...
@hawthorne.bsky.social visits Arizona's "car-free" neighbourhood: "Culdesac, it turns out, is less a model than a cautionary tale"
www.punchlistmag.com/p/kicking-th...
www.punchlistmag.com/p/kicking-th...
Kicking the tires on car-free living in Arizona
Culdesac Tempe, held up as a model, is closer to a cautionary tale. Plus: a bumper crop of design exhibitions to open the year
www.punchlistmag.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:24 PM
@hawthorne.bsky.social visits Arizona's "car-free" neighbourhood: "Culdesac, it turns out, is less a model than a cautionary tale"
www.punchlistmag.com/p/kicking-th...
www.punchlistmag.com/p/kicking-th...
Great night celebrating Impossible Toronto. Featuring (from right) @graiguens.bsky.social, Marc Ryan, Aleris Rodgers of VAARO and Elizabeth Pagliacolo.
January 29, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Great night celebrating Impossible Toronto. Featuring (from right) @graiguens.bsky.social, Marc Ryan, Aleris Rodgers of VAARO and Elizabeth Pagliacolo.
Reposted by Alex Bozikovic
My review of a public building that brings joy.
January 27, 2026 at 12:28 AM
My review of a public building that brings joy.
My review of a public building that brings joy.
January 27, 2026 at 12:28 AM
My review of a public building that brings joy.
Reposted by Alex Bozikovic
Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
Alex Pretti RIP.
January 25, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Alex Pretti RIP.
The $113-million mess of a community centre I wrote about this week is 100% funded from “development charges.” It is going in a neighbourhood with zero population growth.
In part, these charges are a tax on newcomers to subsidize existing wealthy homeowners.
globalnews.ca/news/1163476...
In part, these charges are a tax on newcomers to subsidize existing wealthy homeowners.
globalnews.ca/news/1163476...
Toronto may cancel new community centres, libraries if development funding dries up - Toronto | Globalnews.ca
The city's chief financial officer reiterated that roughly $300 million had been deferred as revenue from development charges dries up, adding that some projects may be cancelled.
globalnews.ca
January 25, 2026 at 12:16 AM
The $113-million mess of a community centre I wrote about this week is 100% funded from “development charges.” It is going in a neighbourhood with zero population growth.
In part, these charges are a tax on newcomers to subsidize existing wealthy homeowners.
globalnews.ca/news/1163476...
In part, these charges are a tax on newcomers to subsidize existing wealthy homeowners.
globalnews.ca/news/1163476...
Reposted by Alex Bozikovic
This Post article on the Cohen Federal Building is great in making the case for the importance of these works by Guston, Shahn, and more. At the core of the threat is an impoverished vision of the world that prioritizes short-term financial gain over collective cultural benefit. wapo.st/4a5NCsq
The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal
Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.
wapo.st
January 22, 2026 at 4:47 PM
This Post article on the Cohen Federal Building is great in making the case for the importance of these works by Guston, Shahn, and more. At the core of the threat is an impoverished vision of the world that prioritizes short-term financial gain over collective cultural benefit. wapo.st/4a5NCsq
Reposted by Alex Bozikovic
We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
What is the cost of consultation?
Toronto recreation centre that started as $40-million project in 2016 has ballooned to nearly $113-million before construction even starts
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
What is the cost of consultation?
Toronto recreation centre that started as $40-million project in 2016 has ballooned to nearly $113-million before construction even starts
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
The substance of this piece by Bravo and Perks is correct… But the framing is a problem. 2/3 of all new housing is city-supported? That is not a victory. It is a sign of a housing market in collapse.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
This is the only way Toronto will ever truly tackle its homelessness problem
Without federal and provincial support, Toronto can only do so much.
www.thestar.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:26 PM
The substance of this piece by Bravo and Perks is correct… But the framing is a problem. 2/3 of all new housing is city-supported? That is not a victory. It is a sign of a housing market in collapse.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Reposted by Alex Bozikovic
Our piece on single stair: a crucial change that is slowly coming to Canadian cities
By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social
By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Our piece on single stair: a crucial change that is slowly coming to Canadian cities
By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social
By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social
"A regional director of the NLRB accused Snohetta of illegally dismissing eight employees because they supported the union..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/b...
Prominent Architecture Firm Is Accused of Illegally Ousting Employees
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:54 PM
"A regional director of the NLRB accused Snohetta of illegally dismissing eight employees because they supported the union..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/b...
Reposted by Alex Bozikovic
Reposted by Alex Bozikovic
Early review here of the design concept for the new RFK Stadium, and how it seem to thread the needle between homage to the 1961 original and the “classical” push (that honestly pre-dates the current admin)
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Can Trump Take Credit for Washington’s New NFL Stadium Design?
Plus: A Fed renovation explainer
www.bloomberg.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Early review here of the design concept for the new RFK Stadium, and how it seem to thread the needle between homage to the 1961 original and the “classical” push (that honestly pre-dates the current admin)
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Our piece on single stair: a crucial change that is slowly coming to Canadian cities
By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social
By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Our piece on single stair: a crucial change that is slowly coming to Canadian cities
By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social
By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social
The young, educated, ambitious people who want to live in Toronto and Vancouver are being forced out by high prices.
We could build more housing for them, but we prefer our cities to become stagnant retirement communities.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
We could build more housing for them, but we prefer our cities to become stagnant retirement communities.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
The immigration shift away from Canada’s three biggest cities
Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal combined now account for less than half of new immigrants
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The young, educated, ambitious people who want to live in Toronto and Vancouver are being forced out by high prices.
We could build more housing for them, but we prefer our cities to become stagnant retirement communities.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
We could build more housing for them, but we prefer our cities to become stagnant retirement communities.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...