Architecture
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The Centre Cannot Hold
The future is in Scarborough! Our friend’s at the Toronto Free Gallery are opening an exhibition that “poses the question—Is our future...
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Goethe Deconstruction Time Again
If you missed the first panel discussion a month or so ago on Urban Deconstructions currently at the Goethe-Institut (it was very good – they...
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A Toronto “What If?”
Today’s Toronto Star has a great section called “What If?” It is very much like our “History of our Future” issue from last...
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Again with the waterfront…
Spent part of the afternoon wandering along the Windsor waterfront & Detroit River. On the west side — “downriver” — Windsor...
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Architecture is a transformer
The Saturday edition of the Globe and Mail has a few articles on the architectural and culutral renaissance Toronto is undergoing. Lisa Rochon has the...
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Save Otter Loop II: Opponents Speak; You Should Too
(Otter Loop photograph by Richard Leitch) Janice Etter, Chair of the Etobicoke-York Community Preservation Panel, offers this update on the drive to...
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Toronto Gaol
This morning I went on a tour of the Don Jail, or Toronto Gaol. The old part, built in 1860s, closed in 1977. The “new” part is still full of...
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Save Otter Loop?
(Otter loop photograph by Richard Leitch) Adam Sobolak of the Toronto Architecture Conservancy sent me this press release about the group’s desire...
By James Bow -
CN Tower in Utility and Literature
The other day CBC Radio One came to our OCAD “Activate the Park” event to do a live spot for Here and Now. The producer came in a CBC Minivan...
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Absolute Mississauga
Mississauga unveiled the winner of its landmark development Absolute near the city’s civic centre and Square One shopping mall. The jury picked the...
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Developing Vaughan
Today’s development story is not about the waterfront. Its about “downtown” Vaughan. It seems developers like the idea of the Spadina...
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Cinematic City
Unconfirmed rumours are circulating that the plug has been pulled on Atom Egoyan’s Camera Bar-slash-repertory cinema on Queen Street just east of...
By Shawn Micallef