{"id":668,"date":"2006-04-03T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T12:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=668"},"modified":"2007-03-06T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T20:40:54","slug":"save-otter-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/04\/03\/save-otter-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Otter Loop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transit.toronto.on.ca\/images\/trolleybus-9110-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" align=\"right\" alt=\"trolleybus-9110-01.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/transit.toronto.on.ca\/images\/trolleybus-9110-01-thumb.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Otter loop photograph by Richard Leitch)<\/p>\n<p>Adam Sobolak of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torarchcons.org\/\">Toronto Architecture Conservancy<\/a> sent me this press release about the group&#8217;s desire to save the distinctive transit shelter in the loop at the corner of Avenue Road and Otter Crescent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Recently, the TTC sold the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Otter Loop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bus turnaround (on Avenue Road at Otter Crescent, south of Lawrence and across from Havergal College) to the City for $1, Thanks to the efforts of Post City Magazines publisher Lorne London, together with the endorsement of Councillors Moscoe &#038; Stintz, it is slated for conversion into \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heart Park\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153North America&#8217;s First &#038; Only Heart-Shaped Urban Park\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), with a call for submissions by July 1, and a prize of $1000 for the winning entry.<\/p>\n<p>While not a proposal for the park per se, may I make a strong recommendation that the existing Otter Loop transit shelter&#8212;perhaps the last of its mid-c20 type remaining in Toronto, neglected and forgotten yet with its integrity remarkably intact&#8212;be accounted for in the proposals.<\/p>\n<p>In the lore of early modern Toronto, the original Yonge Subway of 1954 plays an important part, not least for its station architecture: clean, simple designs reflecting the sensibility of pioneering Toronto Modernist firm John B. Parkin Associates. (Their legend has even survived the 1954 line&#8217;s brutal modernizations of the past generation and continuing.)<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s been virtually forgotten by posterity, though, is that Parkin&#8217;s design consultancy to the TTC predated and encompassed more than just the subway. Influenced by Charles Holden&#8217;s designs for London Transport between the wars, the Parkin firm provided designs for a number of transit loops and shelters in the 1940s. These were, in effect, an aesthetic dress rehearsal for the Yonge line (and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153TTC Modern\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in general).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.torarchcons.org\/\">Toronto Architectural Conservancy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Otter loop photograph by Richard Leitch) Adam Sobolak of the Toronto Architecture Conservancy sent me this press release about the group&#8217;s desire to save the distinctive transit shelter in the loop at the corner of Avenue Road and Otter Crescent: &#8220;Recently, the TTC sold the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Otter Loop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bus turnaround (on Avenue Road at Otter Crescent,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/04\/03\/save-otter-loop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Save Otter Loop?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[22,9],"tags":[1910,1908,1906,1911,1909,1907,19,402,1014,391,1649],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-traffic","tag-adam-sobolak","tag-charles-holden","tag-havergal-college","tag-john-b-parkin-associates","tag-lorne-london","tag-richard-leitch","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-architectural-conservancy","tag-toronto-architecture-conservancy","tag-usd","tag-yonge-subway"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Save Otter Loop? 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