History
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MOD TORONTO: Three space-age apartment buildings by Uno Prii
To coincide with the cover section of Spacing’s summer 2013 issue, we bring you a series of posts by local architect Robert Moffatt that examine...
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Mirvish Village, circa 1982
One of the current ironies being played out in the Honest Ed’s for sale saga is that the creation of Mirvish Village happened by accident. In the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Good reads: latest issue of Fort York’s free newsletter, Fife and Drum, is out
The June issue of the Friends of Fort York’s quarterly newsletter, Fife and Drum, is out. The articles include: An essay on the creation of the Cult of...
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MOD TORONTO: Ontario Science Centre, Raymond Moriyama’s temple of technology
To coincide with the cover section of Spacing’s summer 2013 issue, we bring you a series of posts by local architect Robert Moffatt that examine...
By Robert Moffatt -
Toronto Flood 2013: The revenge of Garrison Creek
It’s no coincidence that places like Christie Pits, Trinity Bellwoods Park, and the train bridge underpass at King and Atlantic streets were all affected...
By Todd Harrison -
A bird’s-eye tour of Toronto in the early 1930s
The late 1920s and early 1930s were an important time in the building of Toronto. Many of the city’s most beautiful landmarks opened in those few...
By Adam Bunch -
MOD TORONTO: Imperial Oil’s Parthenon of petroleum
To coincide with the cover section of Spacing’s summer 2013 issue, we bring you a series of posts by local architect Robert Moffatt that examine...
By Robert Moffatt -
Ford Fest Scarborough — Revisiting Bendale circa 2004
Tonight is the Ford Brother’s Scarborough “Ford Fest” at Thomson Park in the Bendale neighbourhood. If the party is anything like the...
By Shawn Micallef -
MOD TORONTO: Art and architecture on the Spadina subway
To coincide with the cover section of Spacing’s summer 2013 issue, we bring you a series of posts by local architect Robert Moffatt that examine...
By Robert Moffatt -
What would Toronto money look like?
This feature appears in the current print edition of Spacing magazine, summer 2013. Buy it on newsstands now. There has been the occasional chatter of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Toronto Pride 1988 — new archival video of an earlier version of Pride and Toronto
Toronto editor and videographer/artist James Leahy has been mining his archive of late and just put together this fantastic 22 minute document of the 1988...
By Shawn Micallef -
How the first black hole ever discovered was discovered at the University of Toronto
This is a photo of a star called HDE226868. It’s a blue supergiant, more than 20 times as big and hundreds of thousands of times as bright as the...
By Adam Bunch