{"id":4798,"date":"2011-01-15T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:24:15","slug":"spacing-saturday-sky-dome-heritage-apartments-and-the-historic-halifax-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/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=\"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><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=\"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>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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