{"id":32149,"date":"2012-07-25T13:43:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=32149"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:18:02","slug":"instaflaneur-mid-century-mid-rise-magnificence-with-no-melodrama-in-etobicoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/07\/25\/instaflaneur-mid-century-mid-rise-magnificence-with-no-melodrama-in-etobicoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Instaflaneur: mid-century mid-rise magnificence with no melodrama in Etobicoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m7j5xuaNK01r2gi9to1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/07\/25\/instaflaneur-mid-century-mid-rise-magnificence-with-no-melodrama-in-etobicoke\/feature-flaneur-600-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32153\" title=\"Flaneur\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/07\/feature-flaneur-6002.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a fine mid-century mid-rise specimen from Etobicoke. The MayorBrothers &amp; Doug Holyday seem to like Etobicoke, so I&#8217;ve been following their leadership and spending a lot of time there. There are loads of great mid-rise buildings peppered throughout genteel single-family-home neighbourhoods, and everybody seems to get along just fine. <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/07\/12\/no-mean-city-ossington-avenue-condofication-and-the-changing-city\/\">Lessons for downtown from Etobicoke<\/a>, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>This five-storey beauty is not in deep Etobicoke as it&#8217;s the first building welcoming you to Fordlandia as you pass the Humber River on Bloor (across from Old Mill station). It makes use of the embankment it&#8217;s built into and goes down an additional two storeys, while the parking lot contains passages down into the Humber River Park. A penthouse on the roof, not so visible here, has a robust garden, making this building seem a bit like a Chia Pet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here is a fine mid-century mid-rise specimen from Etobicoke. The MayorBrothers &amp; Doug Holyday seem to like Etobicoke, so I&#8217;ve been following their leadership and spending a lot of time there. There are loads of great mid-rise buildings peppered throughout genteel single-family-home neighbourhoods, and everybody seems to get along just fine. Lessons for downtown<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/07\/25\/instaflaneur-mid-century-mid-rise-magnificence-with-no-melodrama-in-etobicoke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Instaflaneur: mid-century mid-rise magnificence with no melodrama in Etobicoke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21759],"tags":[949,2520,257,20651],"class_list":["post-32149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-features","tag-doug-holyday","tag-humber-river","tag-instaflaneur","tag-old-mill-station"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Instaflaneur: mid-century mid-rise magnificence with no melodrama in Etobicoke - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/07\/25\/instaflaneur-mid-century-mid-rise-magnificence-with-no-melodrama-in-etobicoke\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Instaflaneur: mid-century mid-rise magnificence with no melodrama in Etobicoke - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Here is a fine mid-century mid-rise specimen from Etobicoke. 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