History
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STEVE MUNRO: A 1952 view of Toronto’s streetcars
cross-posted from Steve Munro’s blog Back in 1952, the TTC was about to open its first subway line and was contemplating the future of the streetcar...
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Fort York Visitor Centre winning design announced
As we wrote two weeks ago, the For York Visitor’s Centre design competition included four detailed schemes. “Submission A” was chosen...
By Shawn Micallef -
Free vintage streetcar ride on St. Clair Saturday
A PCC streetcar on the Harbourfront line, May 2009 By turning on the power on the overhead wires, the work is now essentially complete on the section of...
By Sean Marshall -
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...
By Shawn Micallef -
Fort York Visitor Centre renderings
If you didn’t get the chance to go to City Hall to look at the proposals of the Fort York Visitor Centre, we’ve compiled the non-technical...
By Matthew Blackett -
JOHN LORINC: It’s more than an architecture fetish
Dear Marcus Gee, In last Thursday’s Globe and Mail, you dismissed as a “fetish” efforts to protect two noteworthy features of...
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Fort York Visitor Centre open house
WHAT: Design Competition launch WHEN: Friday December 4, 2009 12 p.m. WHERE: City Hall, 100 Queen St. W., Committee Room 1 ADDITIONAL VIEWING TIMES...
By Shawn Micallef -
Downsview hangars at risk of demolition
The following is a cross-post of a missive sent out by Lloyd Alter, President of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario late last week. Two hangers at...
By Shawn Micallef -
North York redux: A Leona Drive Project discussion event
It’s a busy week for talking about North York: Last week I wrote about the Leona Drive project in Willowdale, tonight is the North York Modernist...
By Shawn Micallef -
North York Modernist Forum tonight
WHAT: North York Modernist Forum WHEN: tonight, 7:00-9:30pm WHERE: North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge Street HOW MUCH: free E.R.A. Architects, Heritage...
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Bungalow’s last stand in North York — The Leona Drive Project
In this week’s Eye Weekly my Psychogeography column is dedicated to wandering the bungalow and skyscraper skyline of Willowdale in North York but...
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OPPI / CIP Conference: Contemporary Approaches to Heritage Planning
Spacing contributor Ian Malczewski spent September 30 – October 3 in Niagara Falls at a joint conference held by the Ontario Professional Planners...
By Ian Malczewski