Architecture
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NO MEAN CITY: Macy Dubois’s 45 Charles, RIP
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture The modernist architecture of the mid-20th century is now historic. And one...
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What is your favourite bridge in Toronto?
During my coast-to-coast road trip this summer (I’ll have more posts on the trip over the coming weeks) I crossed over a wide variety of bridges...
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NO MEAN CITY: Architects’ names carved in stone (or concrete..)
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Along with all of the insanity at Toronto City Council’s meetings this...
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NO MEAN CITY: The Globe and Mail’s new home
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture. Some development news yesterday – the Globe and Mail officially...
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NO MEAN CITY: Interior Flash at Corus Quay
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture. Here’s a story I wrote for Metropolis Magazine about the interiors at...
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NO MEAN CITY: At U of T, updating Eric Arthur
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture If the name No Mean City sounds vaguely familiar to you, that’s because...
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Calgary’s residential modernist mix
Photo by ecstaticist. Western cities are built in this neat way where the downtown parts, middle parts (say, streetcar suburbs) and farther-out parts...
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NO MEAN CITY: At the AZ Awards
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Last fall, Azure magazine made the brave step of creating a new set of...
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The Fort York Bridge: how I learned to stop worrying and love that Toronto sucks
This is a stupid old story that we’re all bored with, but you know when people mumble “Toronto sucks” or “Toronto isn’t...
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Street Stories: Bloor Street
Synonymous with both subways and shopping but most recently with streetscaping construction woes, Bloor Street has joined St. Clair as an example of the...
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NO MEAN CITY: Native Child and Family Services
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture To make a good building, it takes a good architect and also a good client...
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Heritage developer Paul Oberman dies in plane crash
News broke earlier this afternoon that Paul Oberman, the developer behind the restoration of prominent Toronto heritage properties including the Gooderham...
By Todd Harrison