Communication
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Cities for People — Alexandra Park Design Intervention
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD’s Cities for People summer workshop (click the link to read a bit about what the class is about)...
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Mammoliti the Hypocrite (4/27/10 edition)
“Fascist” is not a word I throw around lightly. But it does tend to be the best one to describe Giorgio Mammoliti’s brand of...
By Jonathan Goldsbie -
City Hall set to erect new “KEEP OUT” sign
Dave Meslin leading City Idol contestants on a tour of City Hall’s second floor in May 2006. Photo by HiMY SYeD. An A+ way to sheepishly admit...
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CBC’s National focuses blame on pedestrians for getting killed
CBC’s The National for Jan. 26 just ran a segment on the wave of pedestrians killed by vehicles in the GTA in the past three weeks. Without...
By Dylan Reid -
A new view on Toronto from atop RBC Dexia
Last week Spacing received word that there was a unique chance for a beautiful view of the city available from the top of the new RBC Dexia tower at...
By Marcus Bowman -
Richard Serra’s King City Shift
High on my long list of Spacing posts I’ve not yet had time to make is one on Richard Serra’s “Shift” sculpture. It sits in a...
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Check out photoXplorers on TV tonight
Toronto’s DK Photo Group are an “urban exploration” photography collective made up of Russell Brohier, Steve Jacobs, and three Spacing...
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JOHN LORINC: Is beauty the ticket?
The BeautifulCity.ca coalition has admirable, but possibly naà¯ve, expectations about the civilizing benefits of public art. The group wants the city to...
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Ad Creep: “Spirit is Everything”
On Friday, I noticed that the sidewalks around the Yonge-Queen intersection have been painted with stenciled ad messages promoting the Toronto Maple...
By Sean Marshall -
WWII damaged buildings being patched up with Lego
Berlin artist Jan Vormann is transforming World War II damaged buildings around Europe with his version of a quick patch job. The project, called...
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The pedestrianization of Times Square
I have to admit that the first time I visited New York, I hit a lot of the tourist must-sees; the Empire State Building observation deck, walking across...
By Sean Marshall -
Seniors redo Christie Gardens murals
New murals are going up on Christie Street’s retaining walls just north of Dupont. While the sunflowers and pastoral scenes emerging on the newly...
By Jake Schabas