Architecture
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NO MEAN CITY: Abbey Gardens by Williamson Chong Architects
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture This isn’t a “tour” of a completed building but of a...
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NO MEAN CITY: The architecture of health
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture There’s an interesting panel discussion coming up on Thursday at U of...
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NO MEAN CITY: The genius of walk-up apartments
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Toronto’s housing market may be slowing down, but it’s been incredibly...
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NO MEAN CITY: The waterfront and the generic city
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture I haven’t touched on the waterfront very often this year (I was busy elsewhere...
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NO MEAN CITY: Is Toronto climbing, collapsing or both?
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Recently I met with an American magazine editor who was in town for a...
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LORINC: The Crimes and Misdemeanours of an Unbuilt Toronto
Scanning the fascinating images in Mark Osbaldeston’s second compilation about Toronto’s “alternate history,” — Unbuilt Toronto 2 — I found myself...
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NO MEAN CITY: Tour, Centre for Justice Leadership
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture. Recently the Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards announced this year’s...
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NO MEAN CITY: An idea we should steal from New York
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture. The new architecture critic of the New York Times, Michael Kimmelman, recently...
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On Daniel Libeskind, and what buildings mean
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture I wrote a piece last weekend for The Globe and Mail about Daniel Libeskind’s...
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NO MEAN CITY: Toronto Urban Design Awards
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture A night about design, and it turned into a civic pep rally. That was the...
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NO MEAN CITY: How to invite people into the development process?
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture The always energetic Dave Meslin has noticed a design problem that needs some...
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Park City: Hidden under a highway
Toronto is often called ‘a city within a park,’ a nickname which not only conjures a pretty picture but is a pretty good goal for any city. In some ways...
By Bronwyn Clement