Bruce Stonehouse

Visual artist with interest in family, community development, art, architecture, classical music, sailing, yoga and the best of barley and rich hops.

[rue yi @ruebytwo]

Shimsutcliffe also did wong dai shin temple in north york/markham. Very cool to see it right on Steeles

[Ron Jenkins @RonAJenkins]

Read this Substack for an accurate analysis of the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport jet expansion issues, framed from the point of view of an epidemiologist.

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

Tulip Garden, Hokkaido, Japan🇯🇵

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

Hippo Table by Derek Pearce — a playful design that turns a coffee table into the illusion of a hippopotamus disappearing beneath the water’s surface.

[Bruce Stonehouse @bcstonehouse]

Clever and appetizing:

[Irena Buzarewicz @IrenaBuzarewicz]

April 6

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Remarkable:

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

The restored bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

[Historic Hub @HistoricHub]

This elegant 1928 Art Deco chandelier by renowned French glassmaster Jacques Simon illuminates the Carnegie Library in Reims, France

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948, the V.C. Morris Gift Shop turns its back on the street—offering only a solid brick façade and a single arched entrance. Step inside, and it reveals a completely different world: a spiraling interior that later inspired the Guggenheim Museum.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

The Art Deco peacock doors, from the 1900s, Chicago.

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PLEASE REPOST

[Notforlong 🇨🇦🍁 @Notforlong84235]

Excellent piece. Thank you. By-elections in two TO ridings that will be impacted significantly by the changes proposed. My LPC candidate is not willing to stand up and say no to this.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Please read and retweet the tweet below. It says it all.

Think of it this way: anything can be destructive at the wrong scale.

If you replace your residential street with a four-lane highway, you destroy your neighbourhood.

If you put a wrong-sized airport on a waterfront, you destroy it as a place for gathering, respite, and connection.

Ford’s expansion plan must be stopped. It’s another assault on the livability of our city, driven by someone settling old scores, who doesn’t care about the city as a thriving urban place.

We’re building a dense, urban, walkable city, and this airport expansion isn’t necessary. And it conflicts with that goal.

“This tiny speck of ecological paradise provides critical respite from our dense and urban concrete jungle and is vital for mental health, community, and happiness.”

[Hugh Sturdy 🇨🇦 @SturdyHugh]

A very long post but very worth the read.
#NoJetsTorontoIslandAirport #SaveOurWaterfront

[Meredith Heron🇨🇦 @meredithheron]

Cc @EvanLSolomon @kristynwongtam @stevenmackinnon

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A bank facade, designed like jewelry.

Completed in 1914, Louis Sullivan’s Merchants’ National Bank in Grinnell, Iowa is one of his famous “jewel-box” banks—small in scale, but lavish in detail. The circular stained-glass opening and richly layered ornament turn an ordinary street corner into one of the most distinctive bank fronts in American architecture.

[Bruce Stonehouse @bcstonehouse]

Education, worthwhile reading:

[Steve Fleck @stevefleck]

Thank you @NeilPasricha EVERYONE in my feed please RT this to the moon and back. cc @MarkJCarney #onpoli #cdnpoli

[Theoni Rogersen @RogersenTh49909]

Universal paintings! Harvest day! Beautiful art 🖼️! Thanks 🙏

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Amazing doorway

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The Stairs of Knowledge at the University of Balamand in Lebanon

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In 2018, the former St. Lambertus Church in Immerath, western Germany, was demolished to make way for the expansion of the Garzweiler II open-pit coal mine.

Often called the “Immerath Cathedral,” the late 19th-century church had already been deconsecrated after residents were resettled years earlier. Its destruction became one of the most widely shared images of the clash between industrial extraction and built heritage in modern Germany.