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A long and winding walk through Dublin
Another week spent in mostly sunny and hot Dublin. St. Stephen’s Green was again full of people laying about on the perfect grass. It was observed...
By Shawn Micallef -
MVVA Wins Lower Donlands Design Competition
I just got back from the Leading With Landscape lecture, where it was announced that the the team led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. (MVVA...
By Ian Malczewski -
Lower Donlands Designs: A Closer Look
Last week I went to the see the presentations of the four design teams vying for the opportunity to redevelop the Lower Donlands. A massive amount of...
By Ian Malczewski -
TSA’s Design Matters contest
The city’s Festival of Architecture and Design is happening again this year, which means we are planning another Toronto The Good party (details...
By Matthew Blackett -
Let’s all love movies about hating Toronto and about what terrible gentrifiers we are
Last night, a few Spacing editors had an opportunity to screen two, I would say, very important new documentaries about Toronto: Let’s All Hate...
By Leah Sandals -
This will be the best weekend of the year
A few weeks ago, in the little “God [or] Devil is in the Details” section in Eye Weekly, I wrote about the melting snow leaving behind a...
By Shawn Micallef -
Designs released for Lower Don Lands
The designs for the Lower Don Lands from the 4 shortlisted teams in the “Innovative Design Competition for the Lower Don Lands” being run by...
By Robin Chubb -
Will streetcars return to Montreal?
It used to be that Toronto and Montreal weren’t so different. La Ville reine had spiffy red streetcars; la métropole had cheery yellow and...
By Christopher DeWolf -
City Hall: The beginning of the end for street furniture?
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Rami Tabello the hardworking activist behind the ingenious website illegalsigns.ca is being threatened by outdoor advertising...
By Dale Duncan -
Kingston’s plan for sustainable transportation
On March 22, I attended a great workshop on sustainable transportation put together by local organization Moving the Economy. I am going to post some of...
By Dylan Reid -
Vimy Ridge
An interesting fact about the square kilometer of land surrounding the Canadian National Vimy Memorial found on Hill 145 in the the Pas-de-Calais is that...
By Shawn Micallef -
Where in the GTA?
On a recent Sunday with nothing better to do but drive a car around the GTA we found this perfect land of small town quaintness. Quaint is not a word to...
By Shawn Micallef