Canada
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First Canadian Place: 40 years on top in Toronto
First Canadian Place has been the tallest skyscraper in Canada for four decades now. At 298.1 metres from sidewalk to rooftop, the brilliant white tower...
By Chris Bateman -
Urban Aperture: Public Space
Editor’s note: This is the eighth post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece features...
By Sonia Ramundi -
Urban Voids as Transcultural Spaces
Editor’s note: This is the seventh post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece features...
By Sonia Ramundi -
Re-linking the Ravine
Editor’s note: This is the sixth post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece features...
By Sonia Ramundi -
Enhancing the Urban Water Experience
Editor’s note: This is the fifth post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece features...
By Sonia Ramundi -
Finding the Ravine: Gateway to Toronto’s Urban Edges
Editor’s note: This is the fourth post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece features...
By Sonia Ramundi -
Rain to River: Storm Water Infrastructure for the People
Editor’s note: This is the third post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece...
By Sonia Ramundi -
Beyond the Big Box
Editor’s note: This is the second post in a series by students at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Each piece...
By Sonia Ramundi -
William Gibson and the Summer of Love — the author’s drug-fuelled days in Yorkville
It’s the summer of 1967. The Summer of Love. Hippie culture is at its height and Yorkville has become one of the biggest hubs for sex, drugs and...
By Adam Bunch -
GREENBERG: 8 steps to change the future of the Gardiner
It now appears that an important threshold has been crossed. With the news that over half of the elevated Gardiner Expressway on both sides of downtown...
By Ken Greenberg -
NO MEAN CITY: ‘tactical urbanism’ and the Green Line
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Architects and urban designers, have a look at this: The Green Line, a new...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Monday’s headlines
CITY HALL Allies’ offices got Mayor Rob Ford’s list of job picks, emails show [Toronto Star] Toronto Mayor Rob Ford defends fire hall closure...
By Jonathan Zettel