The Slop Factory by Jf Lemay

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If you want to see some beautiful cars, and you happen to be in Washington State, you just have to visit this place: #LeMayMarymount close to Tacoma, south of Seattle.

This is a Tucker, but they have many, many more.
1948 Tucker Sedan
335cid, Flat-6, 166bhp
Number 7 of 50 built
Rear engine, 4 speed with pre-selector like 1936-7Cord
"Step down" design like 1948-Hudson
Cars 1-25 have gas tank in rear, 26-50 in front
Price new $2,450

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Zum Tod von #Kissinger, den viele zu Recht als #Kriegsverbrecher bezeichnen, nur folgendes der Vollständigkeit halber:

Der geistige Vater der Bombardements von Laos und Kambodscha und der zugrunde liegenden Doktrin war übrigens General #LeMay, ein glühender #Antikommunist der z.B. während der #Kuba Krise einen #Atomkrieg gegen die UdSSR vom Zaun brechen wollte.

Zum Tod von #Kissinger, den viele zu Recht als #Kriegsverbrecher bezeichnen, nur folgendes der Vollständigkeit halber:

Der geistige Vater der Bombardements von Laos und Kambodscha und der zugrunde liegenden Doktrin war übrigens General #LeMay, ein glühender #Antikommunist der z.B. während der #Kuba Krise einen #Atomkrieg gegen die UdSSR vom Zaun brechen wollte.

Lemay completes North America's largest indoor skating facility

Lemay has completed a facility dedicated to ice skating in Québec City, enclosing the full-length speed skating track with glass walls.

The Centre de Glaces de Québec was completed in September of 2021, and is the largest indoor skating facility in North America. In addition to its full-size and short-track speed skating tracks, the centre also offers separate rinks for ice hockey and figure skating.

Lemay completed the largest ice skating rink in North America

"This bold ice sports complex of elegant and restrained designs from Lemay is the largest of its kind in North America and the first on the eastern seaboard," said Lemay.

"The new Centre de Glaces is primed to inspire movement in Canadians, aspiring and established athletes alike," the Montreal-based firm added.

The structure has glass along the base

The form of the building resembles the outline of the larger speed skating track, which gives the structure its oval shape.

"The oval structure is composed of fluid and continuous forms that reflect the speed, dynamism, balance, and skill of a skater gliding on the centre’s 13,500 square metres of ice," said Lemay.

Its metal exterior "shines and fades as ice does", according to the architects.

Wood ceilings are over the walkway that encircles the track

The architects also took advantage of this specific layout to include two running tracks, one indoor and another immediately outside the building, allowing athletes to train in all seasons.

"One follows the periphery of the ice indoors and is complimented by a second that encircles the complex with rising and falling mounds, allowing for multiple viewpoints along the building’s outer envelope," said Lemay.

The interior features a simple colour scheme

On the ground level, glass walls let visitors look into the training facility, while also admitting natural light into the space.

"By focusing on absolute transparency, we have decompartmentalized the space to open it up to the community, connecting skaters to the outside world," said Eric Pelletier, architect, senior partner and design principal at Lemay.

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This openness is made possible by spectator areas that are lifted above the ice surface, freeing up the ground floor for windows. Visitors access the upper floor via an angled staircase with a bright blue guardrail.

The centre's interiors feature a monochrome palette. The steel structure, mechanical ducts, and walls are all painted white, with a few accents such as wooden ceilings that help enliven the space.

The building hosts tracks as well as courts for hockey

Lemay was founded in 1957, and is headquartered in Montreal.

Other buildings dedicated to sports include the LeBron James Innovation Center by Olson Kundig, which was recently completed on Nike's campus in Portland, Oregon, and a gymnastics centre in Tokyo by Nikken Sekkei that showcases timber construction.

The photography is byStephane Groleau.

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It's time to forge a "pan-Canadian" design identity based on indigenous values says Andrew King

Architects, designers and policymakers should join forces to write a manifesto for Canadian design that platforms indigenous communities, according to Andrew King of architecture studio Lemay.

A cohesive and inclusive Canadian design identity would help unify the country around shared values, promote local traditions, skills and materials and distinguish the country from its southern neighbour the USA, King said.

So far, he argued, similar efforts have lacked the necessary assertiveness.

"We do it in a very Canadian, muted way," King explained during a live panel talk broadcast on Dezeen. "It's very quiet and humble, whereas we should be a little bit more aggressive."

Sustained investment needed to export Canadian design

Leslie Jen of Toronto practice Superkül agreed that very little is known of Canada's design culture abroad.

"A critical part of that is the lack of government funding we have relative to other countries," she said.

To combat this, King is hoping to work with Jen and architect David Fortin, as well as design firms and schools across the country, to formulate a manifesto for a "pan-Canadian identity".

Top image: Indigenous Peoples Space in Ottawa integrates aboriginal values. Above: Vancouver's Earth Tower is among the timber towers being constructed across Canada

This should be exported around the globe with support from the government, he argued, much like Denmark has made a concerted effort to raise the profile of its firms abroad.

"We have a strong presence of Danish architects right now in Toronto because the Danish government invested millions of dollars in projecting Danish practitioners into the Toronto market," said King, who is chief design officer at architecture firm Lemay.

"And we, in Canada, should be doing that in other places."

Country grappling with its colonial past

Plans for the manifesto were formulated during a live talk featuring King, Jen and Fortin – the first indigenous director of a Canadian architecture school and one of the architects behind the forthcoming Indigenous Peoples Space on Ottawa's Parliament Hill.

The panellists argued that, although it is often conflated with American design, the Canadian approach is distinguished by a more European focus on social design and timber construction while increasingly integrating the country's aboriginal population into the design process.

"There's a cohesive Canadian design culture," King explained. "I think there's an understanding that we exist in a world that has links to Northern Europe and it has increasingly and extremely important links to our indigenous community."

The Woodward's redevelopment by Henriquez Partners exemplifies Canadian social design in Jen's book. Photo is by Paul Warchol

"A strong social agenda drives many of Canada's best architectural practices," agreed Jen, author of Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identity.

"Many projects exhibit an ethos of inclusivity, designed for diverse cultures including immigrant communities and indigenous groups."

According to Fortin, architecture in Canada was historically used as a means of ostracising the country's native peoples after the land was colonised by the English and French at the end of the 15th century – a fact that is still visible in the country's urban fabric today.

"We mostly still live and design in cities that stand as monuments to land dispossession and the attempted genocide of our indigenous peoples," he said.

Until 1961, indigenous architects had to renounce their heritage in order to graduate from university and even today, Fortin estimates there are only around 18 indigenous practitioners in the country, which he said represents "about 0.2 per cent" of architects.

Canadian design community working to uplift indigenous voices

But design schools, including the McEwen School of Architecture in Ontario where Fortin is an associate professor, increasingly have a "huge mandate" to integrate indigenous students and teachings into their curriculum, which advocate a built environment that exists in symbiosis with nature rather than exploiting it.

"I really believe that there's a lot of listening that still needs to take place," Fortin added. "But there's some hope to figure out how indigenous people might actually see themselves in the built environment in future generations."

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With this aim, he said public sector projects across Canada are calling for new buildings to reflect local indigenous communities in their request for proposal (RFP), with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia designed to express Mi'kmaq culture and the Saskatoon Public Library drawing on traditional Métis architecture.

This hyper-local approach reflects not just "the rich diversity of indigenous approaches to design" but also Canada's many diverse landscapes, Fortin said.

"When you get off the plane in Saskatoon, it shouldn't feel like it does in Ontario or in Yellowknife," he said.

Timber construction "knits together" different communities

Expanding on this idea of regionality, Jen argued that timber construction is another key pillar of the Canadian design identity, as forests cover 38 per cent of the country's land area while cities from Vancouver to Toronto are home to some of the tallest timber towers in the world.

"[Timber] is a sustainable and renewable natural resource that can be locally sourced due to its abundance in Canada, reducing the buildings' carbon footprint," Jen explained. "It's reflective of the climate and the natural environment."

"The expression of wood is something that knits us together," King agreed. "It talks about indigenous culture to a certain degree and it has links across to Northern Europe and Scandinavian architecture."

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Prominent industry figures including Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari and designer Julia Watson are increasingly arguing that practitioners should look to tribal communities for insight on how to create buildings that regenerate rather than exploit nature.

"There are so many examples," Watson told Dezeen. "They have increased biodiversity, they're producing food, they're flood mitigating, they're resilient in terms of foreshore conditions, they're cleaning water, they're carbon sequestering."

"They have all of the natural qualities that we're really interested in, in terms of ecosystem services, but they're completely constructed by man."

The top render is by David Fortin Architect, Wanda Dalla Costa, Winnie Pitawanakwat and Eladia Smoke.

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