{"id":21728,"date":"2011-08-02T09:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=21728"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:35:50","slug":"no-mean-city-architects-names-carved-in-stone-or-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/08\/02\/no-mean-city-architects-names-carved-in-stone-or-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"NO MEAN CITY: Architects’ names carved in stone (or concrete..)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cross-posted from <\/em>No Mean City,<\/em><\/a> Alex’s personal blog on architecture<\/em><\/p>\n

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Along with all of the insanity at Toronto City Council’s meetings this month was a small and happy move. The city adopted a new policy<\/a> that will give some credit to the designers of buildings.<\/p>\n

All new buildings of 1,000 square metres (about 11,000 square feet) will now have to have the name of the main design architect, or architect of record “affixed or inscribed on the building at a location near the main entry or prominent fa\u00e7ade of the structure.”<\/p>\n

The results could look like the carving on the Four Seasons Centre, above.<\/p>\n

This is an excellent idea. It’ll raise public awareness of the architects who are making our city better. Though since the best-known designers of condo towers already have their names trumpeted by marketing material, this could have more effect at the other end of the spectrum. The people who put their signatures on poorly detailed, shoddily built architecture really ought to own up to it. And now they’ll have to.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Isidoros Kyrlangitses of Urban Toronto for pointing me<\/a> to this proposal back in June.<\/p>\n

Photo by Paul French, courtesy of Diamond Schmitt Architects<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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