Spacing Toronto

NO MEAN CITY: AKB’s Notan House

Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture In today’s Globe is my story about Notan House by Atelier Kastelic Buffey. This...

By Alex Bozikovic

Features

STREET SCENE: Snowed In Bike

Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.

By Jerry Waese

Bikes

Junkyard cars recycled into working bicycles

Watch the above video about a bicycle that is manufactured from a variety of junkyard car parts. The frame is welded together from various car metals, the...

By Jonathan Zettel

Communication

Vintage-style posters capture modern Toronto

Vintage flair mixed with a hint of city life and paired with a flare of nostalgia can tell you the history of a city. Rob Croxford was born in London...

By Kayla-Jane Barrie

Headlines

Friday’s headlines

BIKING BY-LAW Stintz targets bylaw forcing cyclists to ride single file [Toronto Sun] Cycling bylaw: Stintz wants to dump bylaw requiring single-file...

By Julie Fish

Politics

TODERIAN: Canada needs a federal ministry of cities

Richard Florida called last week for President Obama to create a national US department of cities. When the author of The Rise of the Creative Class and...

By Brent Toderian

Headlines

Thursday’s headlines

NEW TORONTO AREA CODE New area code coming to Toronto [Toronto Sun] New area codes coming for Toronto and GTA phones [Toronto Star] GTA to get two new...

By Mairin Piccinin

Maps

Hand drawn map of Japan’s intricate rail system

Artist Wyton Cho has hand drawn Japan’s rail system. The colourful lines intersect and meet at stations, and present an immediate sense of how vast...

By Jonathan Zettel

Architecture

IN THIS ISSUE: Tiny House Society of Craven Rd.

This article appears in the current issue of Spacing available on newsstands across Canada In the east end of Toronto, between Coxwell and Greenwood...

By Amber Daugherty