Architecture
S101 Series: Introduction and Call
By Erick Villagomez
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: cities are complex. But that doesn’t mean they need to be complicated... Read More
LORINC: Can the Ontario Science Centre save Ontario Place?
By John Lorinc
Here’s a strange little detail about the 20-car pile-up that is the Ontario Place redevelopment scheme: Shortly before... Read More
Book Review: The Ecologies of The Building Envelope – A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces
By Erick Villagomez
Author: Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Jeffrey S. Anderson (Actar Publishers, 2021) Given the number of books I read and review every... Read More
As is: Photographs of Ontario Place, 2021- 2022
By Steven Evans
In advance of Spacing’s upcoming issue focused on Ontario Place, we are sharing some of photographer Steven Evans’s images... Read More
Book Review: Ron Thom Architect – The Life of a Creative Modernist
By Sean Ruthen
Author: Adele Weder (Greystone Publishing, 2022) Drawing on extensive archival research and over one hundred interviews, this... Read More
Photographing Toronto’s suburban strip malls
By Peter MacCallum
With an essay by Orly Linovski. A documentary project focused exclusively on the architecture of suburban strip malls: this idea... Read More
Will Bill 23 kill heritage protections?
By Michael McClelland
The Ontario government has proposed new legislation called the More Homes, Built Faster Act (Bill 23). But I’d prefer an act called... Read More
The Blue Cabin: A Dream of Home in Uncertain Times
By irisleung
Amidst widespread housing instability, many feel that we may never again be able to dream of a home to call our own. There’s a deep... Read More
Book Review – When Eero Met His Match: Aline Loucheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect
By Sean Ruthen
Author: Eva Hagberg (Princeton University Press, 2022) Today, I think about Aline’s contributions to the field, and to the practice... Read More
Broadway & Vancouver Plans: A Rejection of Core Vancouver Planning Principles?
By Spacing
Author: Ralph Segal With the City’s current Zoning Map as an initial regulatory reference, Vancouver’s contemporary approach to... Read More