{"id":694,"date":"2006-04-15T13:57:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=694"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:43:57","slug":"architecture-is-a-transformer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/04\/15\/architecture-is-a-transformer\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture is a transformer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/readingcities.com\/images\/uploads\/RT-ROM140406.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Saturday edition of the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> has a few articles on the architectural and culutral renaissance Toronto is undergoing. Lisa Rochon <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20060415.BUILDROCHON15\/TPStory\/TPNational\/\">has the best piece<\/a> of the lot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These days, in the city of Toronto, architecture is understood as a major transformer. At times, large-scale urban design has taken on a spectacular dimension, delivered as a jaw-dropping provocation, an object to behold, the latest, stupefying commodity. But public architecture also resides more quietly, enduringly, within the deep folds of a city&#8217;s fabric, in that zone of the glorious in-between. It is found in life-sustaining libraries and in community centres that invite openness and tolerance and a just society. It is there within exquisitely crafted houses set like minimal slivers amid rows of Victorian housing. These are the places of profound city building, where trophy architecture rarely goes but where much of the exalted state of any urban renaissance lies. For the civic art of architecture in Toronto, we owe much to our own talented architects and even the next generation of designers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Find the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/national\/ontario\/\">rest of the articles<\/a> on the <em>Globe<\/em>&#8216;s site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturday edition of the Globe and Mail has a few articles on the architectural and culutral renaissance Toronto is undergoing. Lisa Rochon has the best piece of the lot: These days, in the city of Toronto, architecture is understood as a major transformer. 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