Architecture
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Hume: fear of tall buildings silly
Christopher Hume thinks Toronto’s aversion to tall buildings is silly. What can be said of a city that fears growing up? In Toronto’s case...
By Matthew Blackett -
Yeah, but can I build one in Trinity-Bellwoods?
Treehugger reports this morning that Mary Cusato’s Katrina Cottage has won the first ever Cooper-Hewitt People’s Design Award. The cottage...
By Leah Sandals -
Grrr! No passive-aggressive parks allowed!
The Design Exchange is still seeking participants for their Passive Park Design Charette happening October 24 (next Tuesday) at the DX. That’s...
By Leah Sandals -
Toronto’s High Anxiety
High Anxiety: Can We Get the City and Skyline We Deserve? Thursday, October 19. Doors open at 6:30pm. Event begins at 7:00pm. Free. No registration...
By Matthew Blackett -
Building Blocks Exhibition
If you’re ever bored, or hiding from a rainstorm, go to the forth floor of the Toronto Reference Library and page through the city directories and...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Matthew Blackett