Waterfront
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Megalandscape: A counter-proposal for Ontario Place
The Ontario government’s proposal to cannibalize Ontario Place by building a monstrous, for-profit spa on public land will destroy a waterfront ecology...
By Catherine Howell, Ramsey Leung, and Joe Loreto -
Reimagining under the Gardiner
Toronto’s journey towards urban renewal could witness a new stage unfold with plans to transform overlooked areas beneath the Gardiner Expressway between...
By Nicole Capogna -
LORINC: Can the Ontario Science Centre save Ontario Place?
Here’s a strange little detail about the 20-car pile-up that is the Ontario Place redevelopment scheme: Shortly before Christmas, the province...
By John Lorinc -
As is: Photographs of Ontario Place, 2021- 2022
In advance of Spacing’s upcoming issue focused on Ontario Place, we are sharing some of photographer Steven Evans’s images of the site. See...
By Steven Evans -
Rexdale deserves a spa: An invitation to Therme
Therme Canada’s proposal for a spa is better suited for Woodbine Entertainment’s renewal plan, and would allow the City of Toronto and the...
By Chloe Brown -
LORINC: 10 questions about the Ontario Place redevelopment
At some point this week, City officials will upload the Ford government’s zoning bylaw amendment application for the Ontario Place redevelopment to...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Paul Bedford on what happens next with the Ontario Place redevelopment
In the days immediately following the municipal election, the second round of public consultations on the revitalization, so-called, of Ontario Place. A...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Who is behind the Therme Group, the spa company redeveloping Ontario Place?
When Sidewalk Labs rolled into Toronto in 2017, there was no ambiguity about the corporate family tree. Sidewalk officials repeatedly said the smart city...
By John Lorinc -
RENZETTI: What we lose when we lose Ontario Place
On a gusty warm Sunday in September, I enjoyed a bit of paradise at the edge of Toronto. I know: Toronto and paradise, not exactly synonymous, right...
By Elizabeth Renzetti -
LORINC: Clear-cutting Michael Hough’s landscaping at Ontario Place
Toronto, arguably, is in the midst of what the city may look back on as a golden age of landscape architecture and design. In the past 15 years...
By John Lorinc -
Ontario Place re-development: Paving over paradise
Looking out to Lake Ontario in late March, when the ground is still thawing from winter, a daring aerialist deftly skims the water’s surface, its...
By Francesca Bouaoun -
LORINC: The slow boats to Centre Island
After the dock collision on the weekend that injured more than a dozen people and has reduced ferry service to the Toronto Islands for the rest of the...
By John Lorinc