Queen's Park, Toronto

Back in my Globe and Mail Fashion and Design Editor days, I assigned a feature story, “Capitol Fellow,” about the pioneering adaptive reuse architect Carlos Ventin’s conservation of Queen’s Park, a.k.a. the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, that lugubrious Richardsonian Romanesque pile crowning University Avenue, Toronto's processional axis. My relationship with Carlos and his successor firm, +VG Architects – The Ventin Group Ltd., has proven to be an enduring and rewarding one, as most of our posts here attest. On behalf of +VG, we recently photographed the firm’s handiwork on the historic building’s exterior.