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Peter Clewes

Architect

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Peter Clewes is an architect.

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Profession: Architect

About Peter Clewes

[Wikidata] Canadian architect... | [Wikipedia] Peter Clewes is a Canadian architect and the principal of the Toronto-based firm architectsAlliance. He has been one of the leading architects in the condo boom that has reshaped Toronto in the first decade of the 21st century. His projects include SP!RE, Casa Condominio Residenza, Murano, Burano, X

Quotes by Peter Clewes

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our…

Contemporary

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I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well…

Care

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We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have…

Architect

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If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions…

Accepting

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When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

Building

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Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

Commentary

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The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people…

Applied arts

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Yesterday is always better than today and the fear of tomorrow. I don't think there's anything absolutely wrong with that, it's just…

Fear

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Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

Art

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