Architecture
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NO MEAN CITY: Toronto Rising
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Hard to believe that September’s Toronto International Film Festival is...
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Instaflaneur: long lines of the Regent Park aquatic centre
Late night wandering around Regent Park last night passed by the soon to be opened aquatic centre, part of the regeneration of the neighbourhood...
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Instaflaneur: Cornell, the Truman Show movie set village in Markham
Weekend 905 exploration led to Cornell, the New Urbanism development in Markham, planned by Andrés Duany — the man behind Celebration and Seaside Florida...
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Toronto’s next generation of architects
There’s a new group of architects looking up at our city with fresh, bright eyes. They’re interested in changing the way people move through the streets...
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Instaflaneur: mid-century mid-rise magnificence with no melodrama in Etobicoke
Here is a fine mid-century mid-rise specimen from Etobicoke. The MayorBrothers & Doug Holyday seem to like Etobicoke, so I’ve been following...
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Revue Cinema: A century of moving pictures
Occasionally, Spacing editors share content on our blogs that have originally appeared in our print magazine. This is an extended version of an article...
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NO MEAN CITY: Ice-cool office space
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Ice: that’s the theme of this beautiful and conceptually elegant office...
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The condo retail we need
Last week, the mainstream media awoke to the fact that it’s not just knee-jerk NIMBY reactions driving Torontonians to fight new condo developments. It’s...
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NO MEAN CITY: Ossington Avenue, condofication, and the changing city
On Ossington Avenue yesterday, I saw front-end loaders turning an old warehouse into rubble and crumbs. If you’ve been following the news you may...
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NO MEAN CITY: 5468796, Winnipeg’s architecture upstarts
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture I recently wrote a story for the Globe about the Winnipeg...
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Exploring Osgoode Hall
Editor’s note: Spacing was invited by the Law Society of Upper Canada to tour Osgoode Hall and its new exhibit, “Fact or Fiction: Deciphering...
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BLOCKS T.O. brings historical photos to life
Lovers of adventure and scavenger hunts took to the streets of Toronto on Saturday. Armed with cameras and archival photographs of buildings, their...
By Amber Daugherty