Architecture
-
2009 Heritage Toronto Awards
One of Spacing’s favorite civic events is the Heritage Toronto Awards night at the Carlu. It’s a night when Toronto boosters, architecture...
By Spacing -
ARCHITECTURE FETISH: Regency
With summer coming to an end and nature’s most colourful season just around the corner, I’m reminded of an architectural style that put as...
By Thomas Wicks -
New ways of thinking about cities and policy making
“Every time you do something in the city, don’t just do it, do it beautifully.” A seemingly simple statement made by Joe Berridge at...
By Nicole Bruun-Meyer -
2009 Toronto Urban Design Award winners
On Monday evening, the 2009 Toronto Urban Design Awards were handed out to a variety of winners (the event is held every two years). Submissions to the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Toronto’s new unified zoning bylaw project
I went to an open house at City Hall last night about Toronto’s new zoning bylaw project. It doesn’t sound all that exciting, and the event...
By Dylan Reid -
Copenhagen: N-55 “Spaceframe”
The Danes are famed for their design, and here’s an interesting example. It’s a floating living space in Copenhagen created by an art/design...
By Dylan Reid -
Reading List: City Comforts, by David Sucher
David Sucher’s City Comforts is a little gem of a book. First published in 1995, it’s a collection of the small details that make urban spaces...
By Dylan Reid -
Events Guide: lecture and film screening on the history of Toronto’s movie theatres
WHAT: “Toronto Movie Theatres: Palaces for the People,” lecture by Paul Moore; followed by screening of the documentary, Dreamland: A History...
By Emma Feltes -
Sunnyside — our isolated Riviera
In Today’s Toronto Star Insight section I have an essay on Sunnyside. It’s accompanied by some nice photos by the Star’s Keith Beaty...
By Shawn Micallef -
Council approves Union Station revitalization
Today Council approved plans to make the City the head lessee of all current and future retail spaces in Union Station, including spaces in a new lower...
By Jake Schabas -
Wanted: Your Best Stories About the Don Valley Brick Works
The Don Valley Brick Works has inspired a century of city building in Toronto, employed hundreds of Torontonians and has provided the materials for...
By Lauren Archer -
Help Spacing compile Toronto clock tower list
Spacing is hard at work on our summer-fall 2009 issue, but with the on-going City strike, services like the Toronto Archives and the fine people at...
By Matthew Blackett