Spacing Toronto

Montreal Monday: Griffintown phase two, transit use up, snow battle royale on Mount Royal

Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and...

By Melissa Iwankewycz

Architecture

Building Storeys: Little House in the Valley

Milne House (2008), photographed by Olena Sullivan ED: Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema will be making a series of posts on structures around the...

By Gary Miedema

Headlines

Monday’s headlines

• TTC loads up on consultants [ National Post ] • Councillors split on proposed pay freeze [ Globe & Mail ] • York strike may last...

By Chloe Ellingson

Features

Architecture Fetish: Log(ically) Toronto

Though I maintain Toronto’s first architectural style was The Georgian, I want to give a more humble form of early architecture its time in the...

By Thomas Wicks

Architecture

Event Guide: Opening tonight: Building on History at Harbourfront

WHAT: Building on History WHERE: Harbourfront Centre WHEN: Jan 23 – June 14, 2009 OPENING: Tonight: Friday Fri Jan 23, 6-10PM The map above is a...

By Shawn Micallef

Architecture

Take note Toronto: Amsterdam Central Library

Editor’s Note: Fred Sztabinski is a Spacing contributor and former project coordinator of TCAT who recently relocated to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He...

By Fred Sztabinski

Headlines

Friday’s Headlines

• Councillors face salary freeze [ Toronto Star ] • Home Depot pays $11.5M to kill Queen West store [ National Post ] • Observatory owners...

By Chloe Ellingson

Media

Twitter, Toronto, the TTC, & Me (and you)

The first topic in my rebooted biweekly column at Eye Weekly is about Twittering in Toronto. I’ve written a few times about Twitter here, mostly...

By Shawn Micallef

Urban Design

Home Depot pulls out of Queen-Bathurst development

Spacing reader Darwin O’Connor pointed us towards a developing story on development: Home Depot has pulled out of the Queen-Portland construction...

By Matthew Blackett

Green Space

Ban smoking at sports fields, too

Toronto’s Board of Health and Parks and Environment Committee are recommending [PDF] City Council ban smoking within nine meters of Toronto...

By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler

Events

Event Guide: Examined Life at the Royal

WHAT: Toronto premiere of the film Examined Life WHEN: January 23-29, various times (details here) WHERE: Royal Cinema (608 College St. West) If you were...

By Spacing

Architecture

Stories of a sandstone giant at Old City Hall

Workers replacing Old City Hall’s roof pose by a gargoyle overlooking Terauly St (now Bay), 1920. In the 1890’s, long trains loaded down with...

By Mathew Borrett