MOD TORONTO: Three space-age apartment buildings by Uno Prii
WEBJuly 23, 2013. To coincide with the cover section of Spacing’s summer 2013 issue, we bring you a series of posts by local architect Robert Moffatt that examine Modernist buildings in Toronto. In the Swinging ’60s, as Toronto began to emerge from its staid conservatism, architect Uno Prii’s Miami Beach-inspired apartment buildings became ...
Midtown Toronto’s much-loved, largest green space re-opens
WEBNov 23, 2022 · David A. Balfour Park, midtown Toronto’s largest public green space, has finally re-opened after being closed for infrastructure repairs and upgrades since April 2018, shutting off residents from 20 hectares of walking trails, a playground, community garden, and sports field during the height of the Covid pandemic. The park was slated to re-open in AprilContinue reading "Midtown Toronto’s ...
Book Review – The 99% Invisible City: A Field ... - Spacing National
WEBJan 5, 2021 · Authors: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) It is not a stretch to say that most contemporary urbanists have come across the 99% Invisible radio show at some point over the past decade. Since its start in 2010 as a collaborative initiative between the San Francisco public radio station KALW and the American Institute of Architects in San Francisco, the show that ...
First Canadian Place: 40 years on top in Toronto
WEBMay 13, 2015 · First Canadian Place became the tallest office building in Toronto and Canada on January 13, 1975, when steelworker Gerry Deschamps bolted the first horizontal structural beam higher than the roof of Commerce Court. Though construction generally progressed as expected, there were hiccups. A $150,000 …
The end of Yonge Street - Spacing Toronto
WEBApr 13, 2011 · The end of Yonge Street north of Queensville Sideroad One of Toronto’s greatest debates concerns Yonge Street’s controversial claim as “the World’s Longest Street”. Indeed, the Guinness Book of World Records published Yonge Street’s status as the true record until 1999; a bronze art installation in front of the Eaton Centre at Yonge and Dundas hasContinue reading "The end of Yonge ...
Campus Perspectives: Humber College’s Lakeshore and North …
WEBSep 15, 2008 · The mid-fifties style building that looks like a high school was opened in 1958 as the Lakeshore Teacher’s College. One can only assume that the thinking in the 50s focused on giving the teacher trainees experience in a built environment similar to a real high school – even though in those days most teacher trainees went straight from grade 13 to Teacher’s College.
Camera Shy : Downtown Bathurst Street - Spacing Toronto
WEBAug 20, 2021 · Row Housing, 240-246 Bathurst south of Robinson Street. As a documentary photographer of architecture, I take a strictly non-hierarchical approach to recording Toronto’s urban fabric. I see my work as belonging to an important tradition dating from the earliest days of the medium, one that pays …
From the Vaults: Gottingen Street - Spacing Atlantic
WEBNov 12, 2010 · Countess Clans William’s group, relaxing by the tennis courts on the lawn east of Admiralty House, Gottingen Street, ca. 1885. “For many years, Gottingen Street remained a sparsely settled country lane, trailing north to Fort Needham and the nearby Governor’s North Farm. When military property prevented the extension of …
Modernism in Vancouver Part Two: West Coast Modernism
WEBSep 16, 2014 · Easily updated and serving as foundation for much of modern home design, the West Coast Modern ethos continues to be architecturally inspirational in how to embrace the materials, the terrain, and the mindset of the residents in a region. Research: “The Rise and Fall of West Coast Modernism in …
The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room” - Spacing Toronto
WEBJun 9, 2021 · As Toronto begins the process or re-opening the economy for the summer, Spacing will occasionally look at businesses and venues that have either survived or been lost during the pandemic. There is a curious relic in the Annex. A squat building that — when we’re not in a pandemic — hosts music and theatre andContinue reading "The Tranzac Club: “Toronto’s Living Room”"