Culture
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Ontario Place premieres at TIFF
A documentary about Ontario Place featuring Francesca Bouaoun of Ontario Place For All, as well as Steve Mann and many other members of SwimOP, will have...
By Ian Darragh -
Re-visiting the subway art of ‘Atmospheric Lens’
Inside the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station’s airy concourse, architecturally integrated public artwork, Atmospheric Lens, transforms the mundane...
By Sinead Doherty-Grant -
Remembering the Harriet Tubman Youth Centre On St. Clair West
From November 1, 1972 to September 30, 1975, a Black cultural hub known as the Harriet Tubman Youth Centre operated in a building located at 15 Robina...
By Cheryl Thompson -
The bold, the fleeting, the beautiful
This isn’t your typical house slated for demolition. The lawn isn’t wildly overgrown, and the structure isn’t dilapidated. Instead, 91 Barton Ave. is...
By Trent Weston -
LORINC: The case for adaptive re-use of Ontario Science Centre
Given all the powerful arguments articulated by commentators like Elsa Lam, in Canadian Architect, or Alex Bozikovic, in The Globe and Mail, there’s...
By John Lorinc -
‘I remember where I was when I read that book…’
In the Venn diagram of nerdy pursuits, there is a special place where enthusiasm for public space overlaps with the obsessive and irrational drive to...
By Joseph Wilson -
Book launch of expanded and updated edition of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto
Spacing’s senior editor and co-founder Shawn Micallef has expanded and updated his 2010 book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. The...
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REVIEW: As it is – A precarious moment in the life of Ontario Place
Over a three-day weekend last winter, the last few residents of the retirement home at the west end of our street were quietly moved out. No one really...
By Don Snyder -
How can we make Black history matter?
This piece is co-authored by Dr. Cheryl Thompson and Daysha Loppie Many statues have commemorated white historical figures in Toronto’s public spaces...
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Ten Years of Winter Stations
Amidst a record-breaking spell of winter heat, Winter Stations, the longtime East End project created to enliven the deepest cold snaps, is opening its...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 075, What does change cost?
With the Toronto budget about to be voted on shortly, we talk to crisis worker and homelessness advocate Diana Chan McNally about what the City needs to...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 074, 20 Years of Spacing
Spacing is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. To celebrate, we talk to publisher Matthew Blackett and executive editor Dylan Reid about how the magazine...
By Spacing Radio