David Lasker Communications

06/30/2025

Client: +VG Architects – The Ventin Group Ltd.
We procured an important press hit for our PR and photography client +VG Architects: Dave LeBlanc’s widely read Architourist column in The Globe and Mail, devoted to +VG’s 65 Delhi Street Transitional Housing Facility in Guelph, Ontario.
Notice, in the top photo, how we took advantage of the time of day and position of the sun to fill the otherwise boring, empty negative space of the lawn with the dramatic shadows of the tree branches. Evoking thick, masculine intertwining pythons, they counterpoint the delicate, lacy, feminine forms of the actual branches atop the photo. Together, the two masses frame the composition and move the eye toward the subject of the photo. View all our photos from the shoot at https://davidlaskerphotography.com/guelph-transitional....
The ribbon cutting earlier this year signified more than just a lucky break for the 28 adults who will live there for up to three years. Through the adaptive reuse of an esteemed but abandoned historical edifice, the project serves as a best-practices template for simultaneously solving two seemingly intractable municipal issues: repurposing disused or derelict heritage buildings while giving “a life” to homeless people. It is the prototype for a new building type, one with the gravitas and dignity of the original handful of civic institutions that define a community: city hall, courthouse, hospital, library and places of worship.

10/03/2022

10/01/2022

We’re proud to have shot the cover photo for the new, Sep/Oct issue of Retrofit Magazine, featuring the adaptive reuse of the Niagara Parks Power Station in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The cover story, “The pristine powerplant,” is another press hit in the PR campaign by David Lasker Communications with photography by David Lasker Photography. Congratulations to our client, +VG Architects, the project’s architect of record and contract administrator, and to Niagara Parks Commission for this 2021 Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award-winning project. We are grateful to our strategic partner, Johanna Hoffmann of Oomph Group, who we invited to joint venture on the campaign.

07/07/2021

Client: The Ventin Group Architects (+VG).
Building, 2021: “Kingston Pump House Steam Museum: +VG unveils a contextually attuned transformation of Kingston’s historic waterworks.” Images by David Lasker Photography and text by DLC. .of.kingston

03/21/2021

Client: The Ventin Group Architects (+VG).
+VG repurposed our 2020 press hit in Canadian Architect, “Burlington POA Courthouse offers development model for cash-strapped municipalities,” for their Instagram post, exemplifying how the information in a media kit can be used to refresh and update your website and social media. (Left) Page One of the press release by David Lasker Communications. (Right) +VG’s Instagram post, including images by David Lasker Photography published in the story.

03/17/2021

Client: FBM Architecture.
FBM, the largest design firm in Atlantic Canada, repurposed our Marine Drive Academy press-release text for their Instagram post, exemplifying how the information in a media kit can be used to refresh and update your website and social media.

03/14/2021

Client: The Ventin Group Architects (+VG).
Canadian Interiors, 2021: “Cottage design principles from A to Z.”