{"id":9073,"date":"2011-01-15T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T10:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=9073"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:51:32","slug":"spacing-saturday-sky-dome-heritage-apartments-and-the-historic-halifax-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/01\/15\/spacing-saturday-sky-dome-heritage-apartments-and-the-historic-halifax-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Sky Dome, Heritage Apartments, and the Historic Halifax Common"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/45\/151536165_6a78742a78_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ss\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"so\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the completion of the Western Transitway the City of Ottawa now must determine a future for a small, awkwardly shaped piece of land left over, a local community group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/01\/11\/too-small-for-a-park-too-awkward-to-sell-theres-a-community-design-plan-for-that\/\">has a proposa<\/a>l ready.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Steinhauer takes a tour through central Ottawa&#8217;s impressive but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/01\/13\/the-grand-dames-ottawa%E2%80%99s-historic-apartment-buildings\/\">uncelebrated stock<\/a> of beautiful heritage\u00a0apartment\u00a0buildings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lauren Oostveen continues the\u00a0From the Vaults\u00a0series with fascinating look through the rich\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/01\/14\/from-the-vaults-the-north-common\/\">history of the Halifax Common<\/a>, first set aside in 1763.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crystal Melville profiles the community art project\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/01\/13\/events-guide-dartmouth-vision-pavilion\/\">Dartmouth&#8217;s Vision\u00a0Pavilion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On a serious note,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/01\/11\/lorinc-the-new-balancing-act\/\">John Lorinc<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/01\/11\/property-tax-freeze-tax-cut\/\">Dylan Reid<\/a> comment on the fiscal policy thus far of the Ford Administration.<\/p>\n<p>On a lighter note, Spacing\u00a0received\u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/01\/14\/don-cherry-responds-to-our-pinko-buttons\/\">response<\/a> from Don Cherry himself about the enormously successful Pinko buttons. While Sean Micallef comments on a great\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/01\/10\/skydome-construction-in-two-and-a-half-minutes-22-year-old-skyline-flashback\/\">time-lapse video<\/a> of the construction of the Sky Dome.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sm\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Erb comments on the striking beauty of a recently published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/01\/10\/montreal-as-seen-from-space\/\">NASA photo<\/a> of the Montreal region by night.<\/p>\n<p>Guillaume St-Jean continues the Spacing Montreal&#8217;s ongoing<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/01\/10\/photo-du-jour-la-demolition-continue-2\/\"> photo series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photograph by Jodi Green<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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Mike Steinhauer takes a tour<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/01\/15\/spacing-saturday-sky-dome-heritage-apartments-and-the-historic-halifax-common\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday: Sky Dome, Heritage Apartments, and the Historic Halifax Common&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7834],"tags":[4706,468,5825,5945,5949,287,5814,5946,735,5947,2303,5469,5948,125,5934,153,5374,5944,151,152],"class_list":["post-9073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-blog-network","tag-chris-erb","tag-crystal-melville","tag-dartmouths-vision-pavilion","tag-don-cherry","tag-dylan-reid","tag-ford","tag-ford-administration","tag-guillaume-st-jean","tag-jodi-green","tag-john-lorinc","tag-lauren-oostveen","tag-mike-steinhauer","tag-montreal","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-ottawa","tag-sean-micallef","tag-sky-dome","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday: Sky Dome, Heritage Apartments, and the Historic Halifax Common - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/01\/15\/spacing-saturday-sky-dome-heritage-apartments-and-the-historic-halifax-common\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday: Sky Dome, Heritage Apartments, and the Historic Halifax Common - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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