2021

• Ottawa’s City Budget Fails to Reflect Our Policy Goals
• Why the New Civic Hospital Site Is the Wrong Choice for Ottawa
• Improving Procurement For Architectural Services
• Infrastructure should be more than functional. It should be beautiful.
• Reducing our carbon footprint by investing in architecture.
• Ottawa’s Porsche dealership debacle shows there’s a better way to incentivize desirable urban developments.
• Letter to the Editor: Contract Fairness
• Permission for Fun
• Investing in ethics: Why unpaid interns need to be subjected to professional standards.
• Putting Ottawa’s Public Properties To Better Use
• How To Achieve A Fair Procurement Process
• Build Us Up: Embracing Social Infrastructure
• How Public Washrooms Make For A More Welcoming City

2020

• Architecture is for the people
• The ByWard Market Public Realm Plan: An opinion piece by architect Toon Dreessen
• Support for the ByWard Market Public Realm Plan.
• Holding out for Heritage: Preserving Ottawa’s Alexandra Bridge in the name of sustainability and history.
• 2020 TTMAC Hardsurface Award, Delta Hotel Pool
• Comments and observations on V5 Energy Evolution Strategy
• Building Trust: The foundation of respect is see-through.
• Social Infrastructure and the Role Architects Play
• A Conversation With City Councillor Catherine McKenney
• A Conversation With City Councillor Shawn Menard
• Cognitive dissonance creeps into Ottawa’s planning and design decisions
• Beyond Functionality: How enhancing our built environment with beauty can help strengthen our sense of place.
• Designing 15-minute neighbourhoods in a post-COVID Ottawa
• Creating forward motion by working in place
• Toon Featured on The Big Story
• Holding on to Heritage: Revitalizing our communities by repurposing abandoned buildings
• Building Forward: What architects need from government to make it through COVID-19
• Straying from the path: How COVID19 will change the design of our cities.
• Plan. Do. Check. Act. – How an ISO 9001 Certification Means Quality

2019

• Eliminating Eyesores
• Canada’s broken procurement system is a threat to the public interest
• Are our roofs a wasted resource?
• “Five Big Moves” of Ottawa’s new Official Plan
• Volunteering and Advocacy
• Creative Mornings
• There Should Be A Rule About That!
• Let’s Normalize Equity in Design
• Climate Change is Everywhere
• Awards: The Echo Chamber of the Mainstream
• Accessibility in the Built Environment | CBC Ottawa Morning
• Conference Characters
• The Common Sink: A layman’s view (not an architect)
• Diving In
• Making intensification work in Ottawa
• LRT – A discussion on Public Interest and P3
• Long-Term Planning, Not Band-Aid Solutions
• The CEO: The Modern Day Housekeeper
• China and Canada: Wood Trading
• Size Matters
• Travelling to Understanding
• The Future of Architecture: Valuing and Expanding on our Heritage

2018

• Expect the Unexpected
• OAA Annual General Meeting: Spring 2018
• Support Local – From Food to Architecture
• Making Byward Market more pedestrian friendly
• Architect’s plan for ByWard Market curbs street parking
• Ottawa architect promotes plan to make major ByWard Market streets car-free
• Local architect pitches dream vision for ByWard Market with more focus on pedestrians
• PEDESTRIANS FIRST: Architect pitches ByWard Market dream vision
• Create a Better ByWard Market
• Success is Continuous Learning
• The Beauty of the Humble Cubicle
• What Robert Venturi Taught Me
• Resilience
• Thank You DCA
• Coolest Job in Parliament: Dominion Sculptor
• The Future of Malls
• Transit as a tourist
• Concrete has issues. What can we do about it?
• Zoning and ROI
• DCA In the media
• Food and shelter: Local and national organizations helping communities in a big way
• The economic case for retrofitting buildings
• Architectural Lessons From an Ottawa Valley Laboratory
• May is Bike to Work Month
• Panel Discussions: Focus on the table skirt not the woman’s skirt
• The problem with public-private partnerships: mediocre buildings
• From Sears-Simpsons, to Sears Canada, to no more Sears
• Let’s Value Architecture Like We Do Music and Art
• Terrazzo Flooring – A Trip Down Memory Lane
• China and Canada: Wood Trading
• Making Infrastructure Green
• WOONERF
• Statistics and Building Science
• Social media or architecture business?
• Architects talking to everyone, not just architects
• Architect Toon Dreessen’s recipe for success
• Architect Toon Dreessen: Pushing the envelope
• Where’s the profession of architecture headed
• Back to Work
• An Architectural Experience of a Lifetime
• Canadian architecture needs the support of a national policy

2017

• Modern Ottawa offices changing how companies work
• Ontario Association of Architects Council: Toon Signing Off
• Charity of Choice
• DCA Monthly Round-Up: The Urban Realm
• Buying better buildings: How governments should hire architects
• A small wonder or wonderfully small
• Making Sustainable Architecture That Works
• The Neighbourhood Fabric
• ISO 9001:2015 Certification
• Ontario condo buyers grapple with monthly fees amid slow rollout of new rules
• Surfing Today’s Online Design Feeds
• Good Design Matters
• The Sharing Economy
• In Layman’s Terms (A Non-Architect’s Point of View)
• Exploring Design Trends: What’s Up Next? The Linen Look  
• A walk down Wellington Street: Exploring Ottawa’s contentious communism memorial
• Does Architecture Tell a Story?
• The Harriet Brooks Canadian Nuclear Lab
• The economic case for retrofitting buildings
• Signing Off As OAA President
• Smarter Buildings Can Help Canada Hit Its Climate Goals
• Project: Synapcity

2016

• Time Flies
• Ottawa Hospital – A Compromise Solution at Best
• The Way We Weave
• ARCHITECTURE vs. ENTERTAINMENT
• Designing Bicycle Storage for Small Spaces
• 2016 World Architecture Day
• Emerging Architectural Trends
• Why bother?
• The Architect’s Role in Climate Change – Now and Then
• Architects and City Building: Westboro Brainery Presentation
• June, So Far
• RAIC: Who is, and who isn’t
• 2016 RAIC Fellows
• Urbanism: How Public Transit is Shaping our City
• Project Spotlight: 360 Lofts
• Serene, pristine, modern’: St. Mary’s Ukrainian Church a landmark for Ontario architects
• Creating Secure Environments
• Be an Informed Consumer
• Architecture as Artistic Expression
• Farrow Dreessen Architects Inc becomes Dreessen Cardinal Architects Inc

2015

• On the threshold, ready to run
• A New Home for FDAI
• Sketching our Town
• THE SOUND OF EXCELLENCE
• Windsor rife for development of community hubs
• How Architecture Can Bring Communities Together
• Design Excellence: what does it mean?
• President’s Message

2014

• Design enthusiasts drawn to Glebe house tour
• More ‘good’ architecture can bring new energy to Ottawa

2012

• Wood Works Awards Press Release
• Announcing new Merger

2009

• COOL & Contemporary