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Perth's crystal palace

Seizing an opportunity for architectural recycling and creative community development

by STEWART J
Published in November 2016 - Page 25

What do you do with an obsolete bus mall? If you are the City of Ottawa’s Rideau Street BIA, owners of the former Rideau Street Transit Mall, you tender a demolition contract. However, in the environmental spirit of creative reuse, a small town arts organization addressed the old adage “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure” – creating a community focus as part of their plans for a new theatre. Salvaged portions of the ill-starred

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