Category: Alice
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unexpected encounters #4: winter
The western portion of the railway (built 1881-1885) was designed to link British Columbia with the rest of the country and improve trade and commerce between Eastern and Western Canada. Andrew Onderdonk, head contractor of the CPR, promised that he would hire white workers for the project … almost immediately, however, many of the white…
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almost all right
“Is not Main Street almost all right?” asked Robert Venturi in his 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. With his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown (who was scandalously overlooked when Robert was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honor, on the basis of their joint work), he went on to write Learning…
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