{"id":3764,"date":"2008-11-04T01:59:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T05:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/11\/04\/unbuilt-toronto-launch-tonight\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:52:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:52:20","slug":"unbuilt-toronto-launch-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/11\/04\/unbuilt-toronto-launch-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbuilt Toronto launch tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3041\/3001286809_1b56fec5c0_m.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"240\" width=\"160\" \/>We had a lot of fun putting together our Spring 2005 issue called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spacing\/1195078635\/in\/set-72157601584675600\/\">The History of Our Future<\/a>:&#8221; all about grand plans that didn&#8217;t make it to groundbreaking, but could of have transformed Toronto dramatically. And though not built, many of these plans did shape the city we know it today. Anticipation of something is often as strong a design influence as a built object. Going much further than we did, the Toronto Society of Architects (TSA) is presenting an exhibit at the ROM\u00a0 called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rom.on.ca\/exhibitions\/special\/unbuilt_toronto.php\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Unbuilt Toronto<\/a> that lets us see the Toronto that could have been, and also understand that Toronto that is. A book of the same name is launching tonight as well. While waiting for election results to trickle in from down south, stop by the ROM tonight and check it out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic\" class=\"paragraph_style_1\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px\" class=\"style_1\">The Toronto Society of Architects invited architects and designers to submit projects for a curated exhibition that would become part of a developing dialogue on unrealized architectural, landscape or urban design schemes for the Greater Toronto Area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic\" class=\"paragraph_style_2\">The exhibit showcases juried images of significant unbuilt projects submitted by practicing architects and designers in a competition organized by the TSA. These projects are juxtaposed with historical unrealized building proposals drawn from Mark Osbaldeston&#8217;s new book, Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been, which will also be launched at the opening event. More information about the event is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unbuilttoronto.ca\">the exhibit website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic\" class=\"paragraph_style_4\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px\" class=\"style_2\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">WHEN<\/span>: Tuesday, November 4th, <span style=\"line-height: 18px\" class=\"style_2\">6:30 &#8211; 9:30 pm FREE Admission<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic\" class=\"paragraph_style_4\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px\" class=\"style_2\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">WHERE<\/span>: Second Floor Gallery, Royal Ontario Museum<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px\" class=\"style_2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\" class=\"paragraph_style_2\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Mark Osbaldeston will also present an illustrated lecture at the ROM on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">December 4 at 7p.m<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">. on the topic of &#8220;Unbuilt Toronto.&#8221;\u00a0 Admission for that event is free as well.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lot of fun putting together our Spring 2005 issue called &#8220;The History of Our Future:&#8221; all about grand plans that didn&#8217;t make it to groundbreaking, but could of have transformed Toronto dramatically. 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