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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Thomas Wicks

  • ARCHITECTURE FETISH: Regency

    With summer coming to an end and nature’s most colourful season just around the corner, I’m reminded of an architectural style that put as...

  • Architecture Fetish: Longhouses

    Toronto has been inhabited for thousands of years. During those years countless structures were built housing the aboriginal peoples who lived here but...

  • Architecture Fetish: Log(ically) Toronto

    Though I maintain Toronto’s first architectural style was The Georgian, I want to give a more humble form of early architecture its time in the...

  • Architecture Fetish: By George!

      Toronto is a Georgian city. It’s our first architectural style and the basis of our city’s grid plan. There may not be much of it around...

  • Architecture Fetish: A PoMo ProMo

    Postmodern architecture may often be equated with the excess of the 80s and may be derided along with shoulder pads and power suits as an unfortunate...

  • Architecture Fetish: Bungalow Cool

    Toronto is a city of bungalows. Though we’d fancy ourselves as a city of tall and thin Victorians, tightly packed together on narrow streets...

  • Toronto’s French Connection

    Casa Loma may be Toronto’s favourite and best-known castle, but chateaus still abound. The chateau style was used all over the world, most often for...

  • I am (not) lovin’ it

    Another one bites the dust. Not that the potential loss of a McDonald’s restaurant causes me any particular heartache, but this particular...

  • Toronto meets Marrakesh

    Given the winter we’ve been having it would seem impossible to think of Toronto as being in any way exotic, much less to draw comparisons between...

  • Toronto Prairie: Our (almost) missing style

    Toronto is pretty flat, but it’s no prairie. Perhaps that’s why the Prairie style didn’t catch on. While it’s not surprising that...

  • Second Empire? Look Up!

    If you’ve ever tried to distinguish between the myriad of Victorian architectural styles then you know it isn’t always easy. ‘Victorian...

  • Wartime Housing

    Editor’s Note: This post is the second of an ongoing column exploring various architectural styles in and around Toronto. Spacing writer and...