Architecture
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Friday’s headlines
• Who said cops are lazy? Well, a Toronto Star reader did and asked the Fixer why, after nine years of amalgamation, the Toronto Police HQ on College...
By Matthew Blackett -
We tear down the good to erect the bad
Toronto skyline, 1931 Christopher Hume had an excellent piece in the Star yesterday. His opening three paragraphs are a reminder of what we’ve let...
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Weekend headlines on public space issues
• Running scared? Why dogs, Gardiner are not election issues [ Toronto Star ] • Ending GTA gridlock tops readers wish list [ Toronto Star ...
By Matthew Blackett -
Get tangled this Sunday
This Sunday, the Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry is coordinating a conversation on entangled territories in the city. Not only will it address...
By Leah Sandals -
The Importance of Everyday Architecture
I’m not always on exactly the same page as the Star‘s architecture/urban critic Christopher Hume when it comes to individual buildings, but I...
By Dylan Reid -
Chicagoland
We arrived in Chicago on Wednesday. Apart from everything being remarkable, big and American, they call the whole thing, suburbs and all, Chicagoland...
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The new suburbia
Robert Ouellette, the editor of Reading Toronto, also writes for the National Post and had a good article in yesterday’s paper about the development...
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SPACING: CN Tower anniversary & the highest free-standing poster
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the CN Tower. For many of us it is just part of the city’s skyline, but it dramatically remade the image of this...
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Fold-Out Guide to Toronto’s Downtown Heritage
The City of Toronto’s Heritage Preservation Services publishes a really attractive fold-out guide map to Toronto’s Downtown Heritage...
By Dylan Reid -
Spirit of ’76: CN Tower is old, but still very sexy
This week in the Airstream I recorded a fellow who was a teen back in ’76 living in an apartment around Eglinton and Weston. He remembered watching...
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Headlines worth following
Here are a few headlines worth following today, and I’d love to hear your comments about: The City of Toronto Act: the new law passed yesterday at...
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Pics of the new Opera House
Spacing was able to get a sneak peak at the new Opera House that is nearing completion at the corner of Queen St. West and University. We sent our man...
By Matthew Blackett