MEDIA

On Market Square:

"Market Square is the quintessential new urban building."

- Roger Kemble in The Canadian City, St. John's to Victoria

"This firm has a reputation for thoughtful, handsome housing solutions."

- Patricia McHugh in Toronto Architecture, A City Guide

"The Market Square condominiums are perhaps the most attractive and sensitive urban project by this developer."

- William Dendy and William Killbourn in Toronto Observed, Its Architecture, Patrons and History

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On Humber Arboretum Orientation Centre:

"The building's silhouette is delicate but adventurous. The layered wooden slats that curve above the semi-circular piece of the building, and are repeated in the covered walkway to the main door, strongly suggest the tactics and construction techniques invented by birds."

- Adele Freedman in the Globe & Mail

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On True Davidson Acres:

"The architect has sensitively planned and detailed the place to a gentle scale. This community of the elderly is a sweet haven."

- Leon Whiteson in Modern Canadian Architecture

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On the Frederick Horsman Varley Art Gallery of Markham:

"Markson Borooah Hodgson Architects have created a minor masterpiece of a building."

- Pamela Young in the Globe & Mail

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On the Central Toronto Community Health Centre:

"Markson's quiet mastery makes him one of the rare architects who creates cities while designing buildings. Too often the truth is exactly opposite."

- Christopher Hume in the Toronto Star

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On Markson's weekend home:

"We have tried in our presentation to convey what's important to us. My family wanted to feel cozy and comfortable.a place that's easy to keep up - walk in, spend some time, go back in town - no fussing."

- Jerome Markson to Derek Mok of the Toronto Real Estate Board from the Design Exchange Exhibit, "The Architect's Dwelling: A Self Portrait"

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On Jerome Markson:

"Markson's strong devotion to the vernacular architectures of many parts of the world is well known in his circle of admirers. In the most successful of his projects these qualities of intense materiality rank Markson's underrated work with the best that has been accomplished in Canada in the past two decades."

- George Baird in Contemporary Architects, Muriel Emanuel Editor