Architecture
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Pedestrianizing charrette of Huron & Willcocks at U of T
HURON-WILLCOCKS PEDESTRIANIZATION CHARRETTE WHEN: May 8 & 29, 2008 TEAM BRIEFING: May 8, 3:30 pm, University of Toronto WHERE: Room 1017, Wilson...
By Matthew Blackett -
Jane’s Walk Guide: Queen Street End to End
The second annual Jane’s Walk will be held on May 3 and 4. In anticipation of the event, Spacing will be highlighting some of the unique walks...
By Patricia Simoes -
Heritage Toronto walking tours begin Saturday
Spacing Magazine is pleased to announce the commencement of this season’s Heritage Toronto walking tours. The first tour begins this Saturday, April...
By Shawn Micallef -
Searching for York
This past week’s Eye Weekly Stroll column had me climbing around the hills of York, the unsung city that once existed as part of Metropolitian...
By Shawn Micallef -
Presenting: Spacing Magazine Hut
Spacing magazine is pleased to announce we have obtained the naming rights to the Leslie Street Spit Quonset Hut. Months of negotiations with the Toronto...
By Shawn Micallef -
Ballenford: Death of a great bookstore
Earlier this week Ballenford Books sent out a distressed email announcing their intention to close after twenty-nine years as a Toronto institution. In...
By Shawn Micallef -
Let’s build the Bathurst Bridge Toronto deserves
There is going to be a new bridge in town, and Toronto has a rare opportunity to build something great because the Bathurst Street Bridge is about to...
By Shawn Micallef -
Toronto’s French Connection
Casa Loma may be Toronto’s favourite and best-known castle, but chateaus still abound. The chateau style was used all over the world, most often for...
By Thomas Wicks -
TTC station heritage threatened
Accessibility activist and TTC signage guru Joe Clark has informed Spacing about a new TTC plan for the “diversification” of 63 of the 69...
By Sean Marshall -
I am (not) lovin’ it
Another one bites the dust. Not that the potential loss of a McDonald’s restaurant causes me any particular heartache, but this particular...
By Thomas Wicks -
Toronto meets Marrakesh
Given the winter we’ve been having it would seem impossible to think of Toronto as being in any way exotic, much less to draw comparisons between...
By Thomas Wicks -
Architecture Prix de Rome for Emerging Practitioners
The venerable Canadian Council for the Arts recently announced the winner of this years Prix de Rome for Emerging Practitioners. This years winner is...
By Duncan Patterson