Architecture
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Looking forward to Toronto the Good 2009
This coming May will mark our fifth installment of the Toronto The Good party. Back in 2005, Spacing teamed up with ERA Architects and murmur to produce...
By Matthew Blackett -
Mississauga has a skyline!
Don’t be alarmed but Mississauga has developed a skyline! (I took this photo from my west-facing balcony this morning). What’s great is that...
By Matthew Blackett -
Building Storeys: Long Live the Guild
The Guild Inn, 2008, by Olena Sullivan. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema final post in his series on at-risk heritage...
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Event Guide: The Toronto Trilogy — Architecture for Humanity lecture series
Architecture for Humanity Toronto (a4hTO) is presenting its 2009 Lecture Series starting next Monday. This year the lectures are hosted by the Design...
By Dylan Reid -
Building Storeys: George Street’s deteriorating past
295 George Street, 2008, by Olena Sullivan EDITOR’S NOTE: Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema will be making a series of posts on structures...
By Gary Miedema -
Building Storeys: Little House in the Valley
Milne House (2008), photographed by Olena Sullivan ED: Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema will be making a series of posts on structures around the...
By Gary Miedema -
Event Guide: Opening tonight: Building on History at Harbourfront
WHAT: Building on History WHERE: Harbourfront Centre WHEN: Jan 23 – June 14, 2009 OPENING: Tonight: Friday Fri Jan 23, 6-10PM The map above is a...
By Shawn Micallef -
Take note Toronto: Amsterdam Central Library
Editor’s Note: Fred Sztabinski is a Spacing contributor and former project coordinator of TCAT who recently relocated to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He...
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Stories of a sandstone giant at Old City Hall
Workers replacing Old City Hall’s roof pose by a gargoyle overlooking Terauly St (now Bay), 1920. In the 1890’s, long trains loaded down with...
By Mathew Borrett -
Saving a suburban supermarket
The Metro grocery store at Parkway Mall at Ellesmere and Victoria Park in Scarborough (Google Map |MSN Live Search Map) was just nominated for historical...
By Sean Marshall -
Losing a sense of “place”
I’ve been clearing out my old files, and I came across an article given to my me a couple of years ago by walking activist Helen Riley...
By Dylan Reid -
Architecture Fetish: By George!
Toronto is a Georgian city. It’s our first architectural style and the basis of our city’s grid plan. There may not be much of it around...
By Thomas Wicks