Architecture
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The Brutal Truth
Editor’s Note: This post is the first of what will be an ongoing column exploring various architectural styles in and around Toronto. Spacing writer...
By Thomas Wicks -
ROM tries to move hot dog vendors “blocking Crystal view”
I just returned from a museums conference in Ottawa and was just sorting through my notes to post soon on a few of the surprisingly positive public space...
By Leah Sandals -
Ottawa is 1978
I took the train to Ottawa a few weeks ago, a city I’ve only visited on two other occasions (once to write a story about the G20 Summit in November...
By Shawn Micallef -
Leslie Street Spit Quonset Hut
In today’s Toronto Star Ideas section I wrote about the Quonset Hut found half way out the Leslie Street Spit. It’s a neat architectural...
By Shawn Micallef -
Adaptive reuse — Detroit style
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSV9BPiwzlk[/youtube] Detroit once had nearly a dozen magnificent 1920s theatres in and around Grand Circus Park...
By Shawn Micallef -
The dismantling of Detroit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6m98ZUcH-A[/youtube] The good people of the dETROITfUNK blog have produced a series of videos of their city that...
By Shawn Micallef -
“Building Sustainability” lecture series
A new free lecture and discussion series on “Building Sustainability” is being inaugurated this month by the organization Architecture for...
By Dylan Reid -
The invisible presence of parking
Three of us working on The Impervious P-lot congregated in Montreal to interview Gina Laurel, an architect working on a Communications PhD about water...
By Amber Yared -
New stadium, new space
The University of Toronto’s new, very simple Varsity Stadium at Bloor W. and Bedford has been criticized for not contributing to this rapidly...
By Dylan Reid -
Toronto Reference Library 30th Anniversary
Toronto’s greatest indoor public space is celebrating its 30th Anniversary tomorrow (Friday Nov. 2) with a day long program of events. Two years ago...
By Shawn Micallef -
Concrete Toronto
When I was young the Toronto of my imagination was not Victorian, precious or gingerbread in anyway. It was concrete. Slabs of it. Along the ground, up...
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Slang of Buildings
Wherever buildings meet there are dialogues—I think this is what Galen shows us in these photographs. The framing of his photos directs us to a...
By Amber Yared