Architecture
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Spacing’s ‘Remnants of Mid-Century Toronto’ book wins Lt. Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award
Spacing is proud to announce that our book, Remnants of Mid-Century Toronto, has won the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in...
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From Sunlight Park to East Harbour (Part 1 of 2)
In July, 2021, the developer Cadillac Fairview introduced a revised plan for the transformation of the former Unilever soap manufacturing site in the...
By Peter MacCallum -
Growing up in Eb Zeidler’s Toronto
For the record, I did not attend the infamous Teenage Head concert in June 1980, which turned into a melee, which became an excuse to shut down the...
By John Lorinc -
The fading of the garment district factories: McGregor Socks, Spadina Avenue, 2003
In 2003 I began a two part documentary photography project featuring the McGregor Socks knitting mill on Spadina Avenue, and the Korex soap and detergent...
By Peter MacCallum -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 062, The PATH ahead for Toronto’s underground
With many people still working from home, the future of Toronto’s PATH system — the underground mall serving the financial towers above — is in...
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Achtung! Go for a German Walk T.O.
Over the summer and fall I was happy to work with a team put together by the German Consulate in Toronto on a series of audio walks exploring...
By Shawn Micallef -
Modest Hopes: The story of Anne O’Rourke of Corktown
This is an excerpt from Modest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto’s Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s — by Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy — which...
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Indigenous youth help redefine landscape architecture
It’s impossible to teach someone how to build a deer-skin drum over Zoom. “Just feel the string,” says Oshkabewis (Anishnaabemowin: helper), Healer and...
By Joseph Wilson -
Camera Shy : Downtown Bathurst Street
As a documentary photographer of architecture, I take a strictly non-hierarchical approach to recording Toronto’s urban fabric. I see my work as belonging...
By Peter MacCallum -
Recording Hart Massey’s Factory and Concert Hall
In 1986, I photographed the historic, sprawling Massey Ferguson farm machinery plant in Toronto just as demolition work was getting underway. Staying one...
By Peter MacCallum -
Urban space as a catalyst for improving mental health care
This article is published in conjunction with the upcoming issue of Spacing, which is focused on the theme of public health. In these early months of...
By Will Zahn, Dr. Catherine Zahn, and Bruce Kuwabara -
OP-ED: Why we have to save the first parliament site
Recent reports that the Queen’s Park may expropriate the First Parliament site, at Parliament and Front Streets, for construction of the Metrolinx Ontario...
By Rollo Myers and Ron Williamson