Architecture
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Ryerson to ‘turn around and face the city’
From the Globe and Mail today: Ryerson University sits smack in the middle of downtown Toronto, with its back turned to the city. That’s about to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Good articles from the Star & NOW
Some recent articles in the Star are worth posting about: 1. The City wants to crack down on vehicles idling. 2. Royson James writes about the need for...
By Matthew Blackett -
When it’s good to look up
Maybe 50-53% of the reason I moved to Toronto was for the tall buildings. If I wanted low I’d have moved to Cornwall and paid less rent. The...
By Shawn Micallef -
Queen West Community Charrette
Cross-posted from the Eye Weekly blog. This Sunday, Active 18 — the Queen West West community group that’s formed to provide a voice for...
By Dale Duncan -
206 Carlton
The recent sentencing of David Irving to three years in prison for holocaust denial got me thinking about the fortified house at 206 Carlton. This was...
By Shawn Micallef -
The news from NOW and Eye
If you haven’t picked up a copy of this week’s NOW you should try to find the few remaining copies that float around coffee shops or burger...
By Matthew Blackett -
Starchitect Landing
Editor’s note: The AGO invited a handful of people and organizations from Toronto’s blogging community to be part of the media launch of Frank...
By Shawn Micallef -
Queen St. West Heritage meeting
The second Public Meeting for the Queen Street West Heritage Conservation District Study will be held on Wednesday February 22, 2006 — 7:30pm at...
By Dylan Reid -
The Hidden City Photo Contest
The Toronto Psychogeography Society was asked to judge a Hidden City photo contest started on Tropolism, a blog about all things urban and architectural...
By Shawn Micallef -
[murmur] vs. Hart House
Our next [murmur] audio documentary project is taking us out of the “true” public spaces of our streets, laneways and parks and into the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Follow-up: French riots and public space
The BBC did a radio program this week following up on the riots in the suburbs of Paris three months ago. At the time, there was some commentary that part...
By Dylan Reid -
Mississauga, Riverdale hospital, delivery trucks downtown, & waterfront money questions
Yesterday, Christopher Hume of the Toronto Star wrote about the international competition for a 52-storey condo tower that will be built on the northeast...
By Matthew Blackett