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    • Publications
      • Reservoir Dogs Townhouses featured in a new book!
      • Ridge Residence featured on AECCafe.com
      • HBSA Awards Celebrate Best of Hamilton & Burlington Design
      • TCA’s Ridge Residence featured on Australia’s Built Environment Channel
      • Downtown Hamilton Value is Going Up
      • ArchDaily - Selected Works: Ridge Residence
      • Slow and Stealthy in the County
      • New Boutique Hotel expected for Gore Park
      • $6M ‘boutique hotel’ overlooking Gore Park envisioned for downtown
      • Business Link Hamilton Presents TCA Architect Esther Link with 40 Under Forty Award
      • thier + curran architects retirement dwelling in ontario is clad in black corrugated metal
      • The Black Wedge House featured on Dwell
      • New administration building takes shape in Cayuga
      • Hamilton 2058
      • This Dog has its Day
      • Grey Matter Brewpub Opens in Kincardine, Ontario
      • The impressive transformation of the Lakeview Wine Company in Niagara-on-the-Lake
      • TCA Principal Bill Curran Lectures Again at the Universita IUAV di Venezia School of Architecture
      • Neighbours rally against 'speed demons' at Queen and Herkimer crossing
      • Bringing some supercool to North End Hamilton
      • Hamilton, show us how it's done
      • Hamilton celebrates 2017 Architecture & Urban Design Awards
      • 7-9-11 Brock Street Urban Towns Finish Construction
      • Haldimand County Central Administration Building design approved by council
      • TCAs Lakeview Wine Co. Retail & Tasting Pavilion featured on Archilovers
      • A look at the new Lakeview Winery Retail and Tasting Pavilion by TCA
      • Diamond Estates trailer replaced by new tasting, retail centre
      • Lakeview Wine Co. Retail & Tasting Pavilion Grand Opening
      • New tasting centre links to Diamond Estates past, sets stage for ambitious future
      • MERIT Brewing
      • Q&A with Principal Architect Bill Curran
      • Canadian Architect Magazine Spotlight: Richmond Hill Hub
      • Suds Expected to Flow at Downtown Brew Pubs
      • TCA Principal Bill Curran Lectures Again at the Universita IUAV di Venezia School of Architecture
      • North End Free Library Featured in OAA Profiles 2017 Issue
      • Business Link Hamilton Presents TCA Associate Kyle Slote with 40 Under Forty Award
      • From Derelict to Design: 7-9-11 Brock Street
      • Art Gallery of Hamilton Featured in Canadian Architect 49th Annual Awards of Excellence
      • House Hunting in a Maserati: 7-9-11 Brock Street
      • A SoBi tour with Bill Curran
      • Downtown Renewal: Homegrown to be Reborn in Old Windsor Hotel
      • TCA projects profiled in the Summer 2016 issue of Hamilton Magazine.
      • Raise the Hammer - LRT Transit Support
      • Diamond Estates Winery Retail Store and Tasting Pavilion Set for Construction
      • York Region: Community invited to tour, visit The Hub in Richmond Hill
      • Maplewood Cafe opens at St. Peter's Hospital
      • The Ridge Residence in Prince Edward County Nears Completion
      • York Region: Home Base for homeless youth moves into Richmond hill hub
      • York Region Affordable Housing and Youth Centre Complete
      • Meet Your Neighbours
      • North End Free Library and Public Bench Featured on OAA Blog
      • PAUL WILSON: Down in Hamilton's core, Investors Chicken No More
      • York Region: Social Enterprise key part of Richmond Hill's soon-to-open Hub Housing
      • Hamilton's urban design awards celebrate the generous city
      • PARK(ing) Day at Thier and Curran Architects Inc.
      • Design Spotlight: The North End Free Library
      • Hamilton's North End Looming Development
      • North End Free Library and Public Bench Featured in AECCafe
      • TCA's Abena Asomaning Featured in The Hamilton Spectator
      • The North End Free Library Featured in Canadian Architect
      • TCA Principal Bill Curran is profiled in the Spring 2015 issue of Hamilton Magazine.
      • Young Architects of Hamilton - Meghan Galachiuk
      • 95 King Feature in May 2015 Issue of Urbanicity
      • Update on Herkimer and Charlton Bike Lanes
      • TCA's McMaster Family Health Clinic Featured in Healthcare Design Magazine
      • TCA's Halton McMaster Family Health Clinic featured on Canadian Architect
      • Urgent Opportunity on the Waterfront
      • TCA's Halton McMaster Family Health Clinic featured on Archello
      • TCA's Halton McMaster Family Health Clinic featured on Archilovers
      • Gore Park Episode 2 featuring 95 King St. E.
      • Hamilton-Burlington Society of Architects announces Awards of Excellence winners
      • Hamilton- Burlington Society of Architects announces the recipients of the 2014 Architectural Awards of Excellence
      • Society honours architects and their projects
      • Out and About with urbanicity HBSA Celebrate 2014 Gala
      • Ribbon cut to open Halton McMaster Family Health Centre
      • HBSA Celebrate 2014 Gala Feature in Urbanicity
      • Halton McMaster medical centre holds official opening in Burlington
      • The best people want a good-looking place to live
      • Architecture the 'most visible expression of culture'
      • Why an acre of homes generate more taxes than a Home Depot
      • AECCafe Architecture Showcase - 95 King Street East
      • Stage set for downtown studios
      • Arch Daily - Selected Works: 95 King Street East Studios and Lofts
      • A home where artists can thrive
      • Transformed strip club makes room for artists in the core
      • Hamilton creates artist studios, housing in core
      • From strip club to arts centre - a Hamilton transformation story
      • Artists see soul on King Street
      • Senior centre on track for April Opening
      • Invest in Hamilton: 95 King Street East News Clip
      • Hamilton's Thriving Condo Scene
      • Rebirth at 95 King
      • An Artful Existence
      • Thier + Curran Architects transform Hamilton Strip Club to Housing and Cultural Space
      • Renew Hamilton: Economic of Heritage Preservation
      • A City Can't 'Demolish its Way to Success.' Architect Warns
      • Giving Purpose to Old Buildings Makes Sense
      • David Crombie on the Future of Cities in Ontario
      • Well-spoken, respected...this T.O. mayor has polish.
      • Winners of the 2013 Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Award Revealed
      • Winners of the 2013 Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Award
      • New artists' digs waiting for tenants
      • Celebrating Hamilton's best designed projects
      • What's Next: 10 New Ideas to Improve Hamilton as Next Steps in Our Renewal
      • Behind the Big Door, Strippers No More
      • Urban Renewal in Hamilton: Short-Term Fixes and Long-term Plans
      • Renew Hamilton: Bill Curran at the Learning Forum
      • Downtown Hamilton development on the rise
      • Women's Shelter fits seamlessly into the community
      • A midsummer tour with meaning
      • Nature Retreat
      • Five places to visit in Hamilton's trendy James St. North
      • Council committee approves Hub Project
      • Richmond Hill shelter project approved in 7-2 vote
      • Ground-breaking ceremony for Ancaster seniors centre
      • Controversy in Richmond Hill over social housing
      • Unlocked at last - the secret life of architects
      • Congregation back Philpott Church rebuild
      • Vision for Hamilton's waterfront more Halifax than Toronto
      • Philpott parishioners at $13.4-million crossroads.
      • Funding announced for Ancaster senior centre expansion
      • Ancaster seniors centre gets funding for expansion.
      • How about lunch at the Lister?
      • Hamilton thrives while steel industry struggles
      • What's Wrong - and right - about the new stadium design.
      • From Hamilton Strip Club to Art Hub
      • Mac's Digital Brain Trust Hangs Out Shingle
      • McMaster Opens Centre to Bring Research into 21st Century
      • McMaster News - Digital Scholarship Centre will Revolutionize Research
      • Debunking Myths About Social Housing
      • Oldest House in Ancaster Becomes Police Museum
      • Hot Toronto? Say Hello to Cool Hamilton
      • Senior Centre Awaits Funding for Expansion Plan
      • New Buildings 'Ease' Seniors' Affordable Rent Crunch
      • Bigger and Bolder - 118 James North Become a Canvas During Supercrawl
      • Hamilton West Harbour Concept Neighbourhood Plan
      • Quality Affordable Housing is Showing Itself in Hamilton Now
      • Good Shepherd Square Gives People New Life
      • City Will Study Proposal for West Harbour Lands
      • What's This? No Cubicle?
      • Grassroots Group on Track to Take Back West Harbour
      • 150 Photos: Art Gallery of Hamilton
      • AGH Previews its Design Annex
      • Risks and Potential in Waterfront Development
      • City on Track to Reclaim Waterfront
      • Hamilton West Harbour Concept Plan
      • That Rail Yard on the Waterfront - Maybe It's Not Situation Hopeless
      • 118 James: A Mecca for the Arts
      • Lister Reborn
      • The Business Link - Good Shepherd
      • Photos from CBC Hamilton's Unveiling During May 2012 Art Crawl
      • Curious Visitors Flood Revamped Lister Block
      • The Door is Open
      • Gore Park
      • Good Shepherd Square Fitting in Nicely
      • Design Annex Opening Spring / Summer 2012
      • Makeover on James Street
      • CBC Hamilton Honoring the past with an eye to the future
      • Hamilton Police Museum to open in Ancaster
      • Slowly lifting the veil on the new CBC Digital Station
      • CBC Hamilton HQ wins Heritage Award
      • CBC's First Peek at 118 James Street North
      • The CBC arrives on James North
      • Heart of Glass Hidden beneath the skin of 118 James Street North
      • Gore Park 2012
      • Perspective - A Work of Art
      • TCA Office Design Approach Featured in Biz Magazine
      • Funds for Good Shepherd Square halfway there
      • TCA Offices at 118 James North Featured in Canadian Interiors Magazine
      • Steeltown Becomes Artstown
      • Art Sophistication Comes to James Street North
      • AGH to open new downtown digs
      • Shepherding Homes
      • Young Professionals - Kyle Slote, 26
      • Meet three bold locals taking steps toward making our cities more sustainable
      • The Big Build - Mohawk renovating its role in the community as well as the campus
      • Renaissance at Play Today
      • City Gets Grants to Accelerate Growth
      • 25 Good Things
      • Getting its Groove Back
      • School Board Needs Mac's Money to Move
      • Signs of Spring in our Neighbourhood
      • Hamilton Economic Summit View 2008-2010: 100 Stories of Economic Progress in Hamilton
      • Lyons New Media Centre Launch
      • Dreaming Big Pays Off
      • Tom Scott Adds to City's Sax Appeal
      • The Shepherd Watched Over Her
      • State-of-the-art Shelters Open for Women
      • Ambience Abounds at What Next?
      • Thier + Curran Architects Inc.
      • Downtown Driving Dynamic Growth
      • Quick Turnaround
      • School Board Looks to West Harbour
      • Opening up a Typical Victorian
      • Windows to the Future
      • Good Shepherd Square: A Dream Finally Realized
      • Profile Magazine - Urban Design & Architecture Awards 2009
      • Lyons New Media Centre and McMaster Health Forum near completion at Mills Library
      • City of Hamilton Public Art Program Past Rough Sketch Stage
      • The Myth of Declining Services (at least at our sci/eng library)
      • Mac Approves New Primary Care Centre
      • Mac Eyes Med Facility
      • McMaster Health Forum and Lyons New Media Centre coming to Mills Library
      • How to Save a City One Kid at a Time
      • Home Work
      • Garden Olympics
      • Praise for Wentworth Overhaul
      • When Less is More and More is Really More
      • McMaster Times - Our Leading Libraries
      • Granola-Moderne
      • North End gating plan too exclusive
      • City of St. Catharines & McMaster University Partner on Family Health Centre
      • Wet and Wonderful
      • McMaster and City of St. Catharines partner on family health centre
      • Training clinic expected to ease physician shortage
      • Are Trustees OK with HQ in Core?
      • Makeover time for Mac's Thode
      • Profile Magazine - Urban Design Awards 2007
      • Thinking Big
      • Scime/Curran Residence
      • Hamilton Education Centre: The Dilemma and the Agenda
      • City Plan Includes Education Centre - Hamilton Spectator
      • Novae Res Urbis Article - Hamilton Urban Design Awards
      • Instilling a Healing Feeling
      • Bringing the reading room into the digital age
      • Master Class
      • Smart Growth
      • A threat to lawn order?
      • Power Tables
      • Cultural evolution: Steeltown becomes Artstown
      • Resolution to boycott offered up
      • Architects Boycott Hamilton
      • OAA Letter to Hamilton Mayor Larry di Ianni
      • Mohawk College Launches the e-Library @ Fennell Campus
      • Indoor Water
      • Canadian Architect with a love of ecology
    • Awards
      • HBSA Awards 2018 - Lakeview Wine Co. Retail and Tasting Pavilion
      • HBSA Awards 2018 - Ridge Residence
      • 7-9-11 Brock Street Receives HMHC Heritage Recognition Award for “Adaptive Re‐use of a Heritage
      • COOP Restaurant Receives Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Award of Merit
      • York Region Affordable Housing & Youth Centre LEED Certified
      • HBSA Awards 2016 - North End Free Library and Bench
      • 2016 ONPHA Awards - Innovation Award for the Richmond Hill Hub Affordable Housing & Youth Centre
      • 2015 Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Awards - North End Free Library and Bench
      • 2015 Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Awards - 95 King St. E Arts Centre and Lofts
      • 2015 Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Awards - John Howard Society Landscaping
      • HBSA Celebrate 2014 - 118 James Street North
      • HBSA Celebrate 2014 - 95 King St E Arts Centre & Lofts
      • HBSA Celebrate 2014 - Ancaster Senior Achievement Centre
      • 2014 Building Inspection Recognition of Excellence
      • 2013 Hamilton Heritage Recognition Award
      • 2013 Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Awards - 118 James Street North
      • 2013 Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Awards - Good Shepherd Square Phase II
      • 2013 Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Awards - Tourism Hamilton Visitor Centre
      • 2011 HMHC Heritage Property Conservation Award.
      • Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Awards 2011
      • Hamilton Municipal Heritage Awards 2010
      • Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Awards 2009
      • Hamilton Urban Design and Architecture Awards 2007
      • The A.K. Sculthorpe Award for Advocacy
      • National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Seniors Housing Council
      • AIA/AAHSA Design for Aging Review
  • Happenings
    • Events
      • Bayfront Builders’ Challenge
      • 7-9-11 Brock Street Unveiling
      • Today's Modernism: Art & Architecture Exhibition
      • Young Architects of Hamilton Supercrawl Canstruction
      • HBSA Architecture Crawl
      • Opening of North End Free Library
      • TCA Open for Doors Open 2015
      • YEP Hamilton Roundtable at TCA
      • Architecture Crawl
      • Juno Awards Mural Unveiled on Side of 118 James
      • OAA Architecture + Commerce PechaKucha
      • TCA Sponsors Zeke Moores Supercrawl Art Installation
      • Museum Building in the 21st Century
      • blurMEDIA Photo Shoot in TCA's Office
      • Economics of Heritage Preservation Panel Discussion and Presentation
      • Demystifying Medicine Seminar Series 2013
      • The Future of Cities in Ontario with David Crombie
      • Acro-Yoga Photo Shoot at 118 James
      • CTV show 'The Listener' films an episode in TCA's Offices
      • Participatory Design Charrette Series at Philpott Memorial Church
      • Tourism Hamilton's Grand Opening for the TCA-designed Visitor Centre in the Lister Building
      • CBC Unveils Their TCA-designed Hamilton Studio
    • Trips
      • TCA Travels to Detroit
      • TCA Goes to Miami
      • Philadephia Field Trip
      • TCA Goes to Havana, Cuba
      • TCA Visits Chicago
      • TCA in Buffalo, NY
      • TCA in Pittsburgh
    • Galas
      • Photos from HPO's 'What Next?' Festival held at TCA!
      • TCA's New Office Gala Opening!
      • Young Architects Hamilton Launch Party at TCA
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