{"id":1402,"date":"2006-12-20T19:14:59","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T23:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2006-12-20T19:20:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T23:20:45","slug":"better-know-a-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/12\/20\/better-know-a-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Know a Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/HeaderTOBuilt.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To add to the long and growing list of individuals working on Toronto projects close to their hearts that benefit the rest of us, here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobuilt.ca\/\">TOBuilt<\/a>. Local urban-things and architecture enthusiast Bob Krawczyk has painstakingly rode his bike around the city (the whole megacity, not just ye old Toronto) taking photographs of buildings and structures and cataloging them with whatever information he can dig up. This amazing database covers most of Toronto&#8217;s tall buildings, many heritage properties and lots of other structures &#8212; but it&#8217;s a work in progress, and buildings and new information are always being added. As of last week, there are 7871 structures on TOBuilt. Some of these include proposed but never built buildings, as well as things demolished.<\/p>\n<p>So when you&#8217;re at the computer and wonder what the Downsview Central Heating Plant looks like or when the St. Lawrence Centre was built, this website is for you. Remember to click on each picture for more information and bigger photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To add to the long and growing list of individuals working on Toronto projects close to their hearts that benefit the rest of us, here is TOBuilt. 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