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Event Guide: Building Storeys 2010
Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on the Building Storeys exhibit, opening tomorrow (Thursday). After the success of our 2009...
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GTA’s Lost Villages: Meadowvale
The latest installment in this series brings us to Meadowvale Village, a well-preserved rural settlement that is now all but lost in Mississauga’s...
By Sean Marshall -
Building Storeys – the Canadian Northern Railway Eastern Lines Locomotive Shop
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing is pleased to again partner with Heritage Toronto on their upcoming Building Storeys exhibit at the Gladstone Hotel that runs...
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Inside the Downsview hangars
Spacing readers are probably aware of the controversy surrounding the historic wartime era hangars at Downsview Airport. Relics from the abandoned Forces...
By Marcus Bowman -
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...
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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...
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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