The Globe and Mail

A few years ago, Ontario-born-and-bred architect Alison Brooks decamped for London, and, since then, has not wasted a minute looking over her shoulder. The passion of Alison Brooks Architects these days is designing residential architecture -- single-family and multiple, grand and small. And with 60 million people packed into an area the size of Southern Ontario, all needing somewhere to park their socks, Britain provides one of the most challenging and promising places on earth to do what Ms. Brooks likes to do. I caught up with this versatile architect by telephone the other day at her office on London's Highgate Road.