Architecture
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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 -
Inside the belly of the General Motors headquarters
With the possible evaporation of the automobile industry — and especially GM’s near bankruptcy — a shot of the GM headquarters in...
By Shawn Micallef -
AGO Transformation transforms our views of Toronto
Spacing’s Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog in anticipation of the grand re-opening...
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AGO Transformation: Press preview day
Spacing editor Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog in anticipation of the grand re-opening...
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Transformation AGO: Twittering and TVO’s The Agenda
Twitter by day… Today (Thursday) is the press preview of the new AGO. Architect Frank Gehry along with the AGO’s Matthew Teitelbaum will be...
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CANstructing for a good cause
Teams of Toronto university students joined professional architecture, engineering, and design firms on Tuesday night at the annual event CANstruction to...
By Megan Hall -
Transformation AGO in the Saturday papers
Spacing Associate editor Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog in anticipation of the grand...
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AGO Transformation: Alien views and the Toronto look
ED: For the next few weeks Spacing Associate editor Shawn Micallef will be the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog...
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Unbuilt Toronto launch tonight
We had a lot of fun putting together our Spring 2005 issue called “The History of Our Future:” all about grand plans that didn’t make it...
By Shawn Micallef