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The Artful City: Interview with Barbara Astman
Barbara Astman is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Toronto and specializes in photography and new media. Her artworks are in both public and private collections. She is a member of the Royal...
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Book Review – Slow Manifesto | Lebbeus Woods Blog
Edited by Clare Jacobson, Princeton Architectural Press (2015) “The purposes of this website are several – to provide access to my projects and writings that are not published elsewhere, to provide a...
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The modernist Bloor-Danforth line at 50
The Bloor-Danforth line turned 50 today. Five decades ago, on February 25, 1966, the first section of Toronto’s first east-west subway opened between Keele and Woodbine stations. Representatives from...
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LORINC: Airport and Portlands to be transit hubs of activity?
All of a sudden, two glimmering celestial objects have appeared in the night sky above that fantastical dreamscape we sometimes refer to as Greater Toronto’s transit strategy. Way up in the north-west...
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Parks are tools for transforming a city: Q&A with David Escobar-Arango
David Escobar-Arango is the keynote speaker Park People’s 2016 Park Summit taking place on Saturday, March 5th. This interview provides a sneak peek into topics that will be covered in Escobar-Arango’s...
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The Evolution of Public Art Policy in Toronto
By: Jeff Biggar Public art has a storied past in Toronto’s History. The City of Toronto’s public art collection stems back to the late 19th century, with early pieces such as the Canadian Volunteers...
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The creation of Toronto’s first City Hall and market buildings
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was written in 1985 by Stephen Otto for a catalog that was never published to accompany the exhibit “Meeting Places: Toronto’s City Halls,” at the Market Gallery. It is...
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How Exhibition Place got the Googie Dufferin Gate
You can tell a lot about a place by how it greets its visitors. The goofy lights at Honest Ed’s tell customers “there’s no place like this place, anyplace,” Nathan Phillips Square encourages tourists...
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Toronto’s Art Deco legacy celebrated
Facing each other across Spadina Avenue just north of Adelaide, the Tower and Balfour Buildings frame a striking entryway into Toronto’s Fashion District. Previously known as the Garment District, the...
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LORINC: Transit relief is long way down the road
If you have kids or once were one, you may have recognized the tactic that York Region’s politicians attempted last week when they scurried off to Ottawa to ask for their very own $4 billion subway....
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Not In My Front Yard: The controversy of installing sidewalks
McNicoll Avenue at Boxdene Avenue. There’s no sidewalk on the south side of this busy Scarborough road. It might come as a surprise that nearly 25% of all local streets in Toronto don’t have a...
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On the Waterfront: Building public art collections in Toronto’s newest...
By: Rebecca Carbin Previous articles in The Artful City series provide a thorough overview of Toronto’s approach to commissioning public art. In recent years, the proliferation of public art in the...
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MESLIN: Digital megaboard proposed for West Don park corridor
In one of the most audacious attempts to dominate Toronto’s visual landscape, Outfront Media and CP Rail have formally requested permission to build a gargantuan fifteen metre-wide digital billboard...
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LORINC: waiting for the other shoe to drop on inclusionary zoning
In what seemed like one in a series of tactical policy announcements meant to burnish their progressive bone fides, Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals last week anted up a housing reform that could allow...
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A history of developers and holdouts in Toronto
When the Imperial Oil company began assembling land for its new executive offices on St. Clair Ave. W. in the 1952, it didn’t reckon on tangling with local homeowner Isabel Massie. The widower, who was...
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Rob Ford, 1969-2016: A legacy he never intended
If I have to alight on one incident of surpassing significance amidst the mayhem of Rob Ford’s mayoralty, I find myself bypassing the chaos of the scrums outside his office, the humiliations of the...
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Places – Public Architecture: HCMA Architecture + Design
“This book provides a primer for architectural practitioners and the public alike; a portfolio of projects completed by a firm that, over its 40 year history has devoted much of its creative energy to...
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Book Review—Bruno Munari: Square Circle Triangle
Author: Bruno Munari (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) All disciplines are filled with unsung heroes, significant figures who have contributed to their respective fields, and whose memory often...
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Art 24/7: The Legacy of the Toronto Sculpture Garden
By: Rina Greer For over thirty years, the Toronto Sculpture Garden was the site of innovative, temporary, contemporary sculpture installations. This small, urban park in the downtown core served as a...
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Fife and Drum: The day the fort was saved from streetcars
The latest edition of Fife and Drum, the quarterly newsletter produced by the Friends of Fort York, was recently released. As always it’s filled with stories about both Fort York and Toronto history....
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