Dave LeBlanc
Dave LeBlanc was born in Toronto and wouldn't have it any other way. At age 8, he remembers jumping for joy when both the CN Tower opened and Toronto finally snatched Montreal's crown to become the biggest city in Canada; he's been an architecture lover and Toronto advocate ever since.
He attended Ryerson for Radio-Television Arts and York University for English. His radio career has included stints at CJEZ, CJAD in Montreal and CFRB, where he currently works (and sometimes speaks about architecture on-air). His budding life as a newspaper writer began in 1997 at the Montreal Gazette and flowered fully with the Globe & Mail in 2003. Since 2004 he has written weekly as "The Architourist" for Globe Real Estate. His work has also appeared in The Toronto Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Concrete Toronto (Coach House, 2007) and international architecture magazines. He has served as a juror for the Ontario Association of Architects and Heritage Toronto.
He lives in a suburban 1960s split-level with his wife and cat.
Time to get to know Uno's Annex
The distinctive 60s architecture of Uno Prii is the subject of a new guided walk
No debate on the merits of an inexpensive reno
Many little gestures refresh a tired old home
Architects in space
Adam and Katja Thom make a living designing other people’s homes. For their own residence, they chose an industrial relic on the gritty backstreets of Corktown
Toronto’s one-and-only Bauhausler
A Hungarian émigré artist’s home by the lake inspired, but also thwarted, his desire for recognition
Elevated parking
Architect David Fujiwara's sculptural carport is high design on a small scale
U of T: A neighbourhood of lecture halls
Former architecture dean Larry Wayne Richards leads a walking tour of the subject of his new book – the University of Toronto
50s styling that's right up to date
An architect of over 900 TD Bank branches started out on his own Oakville home
Don’t fence me in ... unless it looks cool
Torontonians use some awesome – and sometimes awful – things to mark out their territory, from old bikes to old refrigerator doors
A Modernist home is updated and personalized
Rick Armstrong has spent years peeling away the ornamentation added to his 1958 home by successive owners. Along the way, he’s discovered his home’s rich history and made it his own
Aging towers will find new life in new skins
The push to fix up Toronto’s stock of high-rise homes opens the door to great design possibilities