{"id":920,"date":"2006-06-26T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=920"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:13:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:13:04","slug":"spacing-cn-tower-anniversary-the-highest-free-standing-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/26\/spacing-cn-tower-anniversary-the-highest-free-standing-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"SPACING: CN Tower anniversary &#038; the highest free-standing poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/ieee.ca\/millennium\/cntower\/cntower_unfinished.jpg\" \/>Today marks the 30th anniversary of the CN Tower. For many of us it is just part of the city&#8217;s skyline, but it dramatically remade the image of this city when it was finalized (Shawn Micallef had a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=907\">little post<\/a> about today on the Wire a few days back). <strike>To mark the occasion, the same helicopter that put the finishing touches on top of the tower 30 years ago will again hover over top of the world tallest free-standing building. You can watch this with your own eyes starting at 6:45pm<\/strike>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit at 3:15pm:<\/strong> I made a mistake, the helicopter event happened yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Monday morning article<\/strong> (technically it is afternoon now) is fittingly dedicated to the CN Tower. In our Public Art issue (Winter 2006) Shawn Micallef wrote about a poster plastered inside the very top portion of the CN Tower by local artist Rick Simon. <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/archives\/31\/\">Read about the world&#8217;s tallest free-standing poster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/ieee.ca\/millennium\/cntower\/cntower_overview.html\">IEEE Canada<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 30th anniversary of the CN Tower. For many of us it is just part of the city&#8217;s skyline, but it dramatically remade the image of this city when it was finalized (Shawn Micallef had a little post about today on the Wire a few days back). To mark the occasion, the same<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/26\/spacing-cn-tower-anniversary-the-highest-free-standing-poster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;SPACING: CN Tower anniversary &#038; the highest free-standing poster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"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":[22,24,14],"tags":[686,1132,2684,310,29],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-history","category-spacing","tag-cn-tower","tag-local-artist","tag-rick-simon","tag-shawn-micallef","tag-spacingca-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SPACING: CN Tower anniversary &amp; the highest free-standing poster - 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\/2006\/06\/26\/spacing-cn-tower-anniversary-the-highest-free-standing-poster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SPACING: CN Tower anniversary &amp; the highest free-standing poster - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today marks the 30th anniversary of the CN Tower. 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