By Shawn Micallef
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New Shawn Micallef Toronto + GTA column every Friday in The Toronto Star
Hi Spacing readers. I’m pleased to announced that while continuing write and edit Spacing things, I’ve just started a new weekly column over...
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Contact Photo video selection: Ritual of the Slaves with archival Toronto film clips
The ongoing Contact photography festival across Toronto includes video installations. This one, called Rituals of the Slaves by Toronto filmmaker James...
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Event: Lecture on Mass Housing by Miles Glendinning Thursday May 3
The Folks at ERA Architects and the TSA are hosting a lecture tomorrow that you’re all invited to. ERA Architects and the Toronto Society of...
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Book Event: Here is Berlin at the German Consulate in Toronto
WHAT: Discussion of Here is Berlin book WHEN Monday, April 16, 2012 at 5:30 pm WHERE: German Consulate General Toronto — 2 Bloor St. E. 25th floor HOW...
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Laneway housing: Communal backyard at Queen and Manning
EDITOR: This is a post in our series looking at the laneway housing projects created in a University of Toronto Architecture Faculty’s Laneway...
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York U Cities Institute free lecture by Shawn Micallef Friday: How to fall in love with your city, while avoiding a culture war
What: Free public lecture hosted by the City Institute of York University Where: York University, Room 140, HNES Building When: Friday, March 30th 2:30PM...
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Laneway Housing: a new series looking at the Toronto-based work created by students in University of Toronto’s laneway studio.
As a Canadian Journalism Fellow at U of T’s Massey College this year, I was able to sit in on a laneway studio led by Toronto architects Brigitte...
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Ideas for Ontario Place
Over the weekend the National Post ran a story collecting the thoughts of nine different architects and planners (including me, a pretend...
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Toronto in Berlin in Toronto: the Andrew poster project continues
I was in Berlin in December for a few weeks wandering around. It’s a good walking city. East. West. Amazing differences and amazing activity going...
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Ontario Place revisited — with John Tory heading up a revitalization of the site, let’s walk around the site now and see what’s worth saving.
With the news that John Tory will be heading up the revitalization of Ontario Place, let’s revisit a piece I wrote 1.5 years ago, exploring the...
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Scenes from today’s Occupy Toronto eviction at St. James Park
At about 11:30AM today, I walked over to St. James Park to see the eviction of Occupy Toronto from the park. Adelaide and Jarvis were closed to traffic...
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Event: Dusan’s “My Toronto” booklaunch Thursday Nov 3
Spacing friend Alfred Holden is the former editor of the Toronto Star‘s Ideas and Insight section. During his tenure he ran a series of columns by...