History
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Cities for People — the Niagara Street neighbourhood
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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St. Lawrence Market North Building design announced
The final design for the St. Lawrence Market North building was announced this morning, and the main component? Glass, and lots of it. The indoor atrium...
By Nicole McIsaac -
John Street Roundhouse Park now home to Railway Heritage Museum
Just in time for Doors Open this weekend, the John Street Roundhouse Park National Railway and Heritage Centre staged its grand opening today. The 17-acre...
By Nicole McIsaac -
Lost villages: Pickering’s Peculiar Predicament
Pickering Village, at the corner of Kingston Road and Church Street in Durham Region is a great example of a village hidden in plain sight. Thousands of...
By Sean Marshall -
Building Storeys — The Canada Linseed Oil Mills buildings & Sorauren Park
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on their ongoing Building Storeys exhibit at the Gladstone Hotel that has been...
By Spacing -
Remember the hoarding: R.E.M. on Yonge Street
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XFMCgeI7c[/youtube] In May of 2001 R.E.M. played a free concert in the rain at Yonge and Dundas. That’s...
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The Toronto Museum Project goes online
Toronto has edged a little closer to the goal of creating a civic museum with the recent launch of the Toronto Museum Project online.The fantastic new...
By Marcus Bowman -
Toronto’s Market Buildings and First City Hall of 1831
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was written in 1985 by Stephen Otto for a catalog that was never published to accompany the exhibit “Meeting Places...
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Brantford’s downtown destruction
Brantford city council recently voted to demolish three blocks of heritage buildings in the city’s downtown. Guest columnist Nigel Terpstra, of...
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Brougham: A “lost village” in the making
Brougham, a small village at the corner of Highway 7 and Brock Road in Pickering, doesn’t quite make the usual criteria for a “lost...
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Building Storeys — Architect Unveiled: T.C. Pomphrey and the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on their ongoing Building Storeys exhibit at the Gladstone Hotel that has been...
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GTA’s lost villages: Churchville
Only a mere two kilometres north of Meadowvale, in Brampton, is another “lost” village, Churchville. Both communities share a lot in common...
By Sean Marshall