10 x 10
10x10 A not-comprehensive list of highlights from the past 10 years of Block.
Block Magazine
Creativity has its place
Fall/Winter 2023 (Issue 27)
10 Years of Artist’s Block
Artist’s Block Each issue, we ask an artist to create a block using the medium and approach of their choice.
2023-09-27 15:11 EST
The Moment Cheryl Catterall is all smiles, her hand movements agile as she ties the laces of her steel-toe boots and her eyes deliberate as they meet the large construction site before her.
By Katherine Lam
Fill In The Blank Katherine Lam’s urban infill.
City Rhythms
The Conversation In an endeavour she calls “food rescue,” Lourdes Juan, an urban planner and the founder of Calgary-based Hive Developments, launched a tech start-up called Knead
Starting Block - The 10th anniversary of Block
Starting Block If you are an avid reader and consumer of Block magazine, first, thank you, and second, you may notice this issue is a bit different than the rest.
Deus Exurban Machina
Rethink People in the city always want to move. To a bigger apartment. To a house with a yard. Downtown. Uptown. Or out of the city entirely.
Back to the Future
Now & Then How Vancouver’s first skyscraper attained movie-star status.
Heroic Efforts
Make room for the arts In an environment designed for cars, in downtown Edmonton, a new mural enlivens the intersection of 104 Street NW and 103 Avenue NW.
Now & Then x 10
Now & Then Each Allied property is a unique alchemy of forms, uses and stories, accruing value and history over time. For 10 years, Now & Then has been capturing those stories.
The Inkmaker
The Creator In an urban environment, where foraging isn’t on local activity guides, Jason Logan finds colour.
Contributors
ILLUSTRATIONS BY KAGAN MCLEOD
Hannah Macready is a Vancouver-based writer and journalist focused on business and technology (Rethink, p. 39). She is happiest when playing with her two dogs, Soup and Salad.
Sydney Loney (Now & Then, p. 37) is a writer, editor and journalism instructor. She has written for The Walrus, Maclean’s and The Globe and Mail and is currently the editorial director of Range magazine.
This issue’s Artist’s Block and cover art are by Camille Jodoin-Eng, a Toronto-based artist who combines materials and elements like ink, discarded trash and light to create physical manifestations of the internal world.
Luis Mora is an artist and commercial photographer based in Toronto. He was born in Colombia and raised in the U.S. and Canada. His first self-published photo book is Say It With Flowers. He photographed (and foraged with) Jason Logan for The Creator (p. 24).
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Kristina Ljubanovic
CREATIVE DIRECTORS
Yasemin Emory, Whitney Geller, Jacqueline Lane
MANAGING EDITOR
Claire Reis
COMMISSIONING EDITOR
Mélanie Ritchot
PHOTO & ILLUSTRATION EDITOR
Catherine Dean
ASSISTANT PHOTO & ILLUSTRATION EDITOR
Michael Nyarkoh
DESIGNERS
Julie MacKinnon
TRANSLATOR
Catherine Connes
COPY EDITORS - PROOFREADERS
Suzanne Aubin, Jane Fielding, Lesley Fraser
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