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November 29, 2007
Overheard outside the ROM during last night's bomb scare. A small group of friends is standing on the corner of Bloor and University, facing the museum. Guy: You know, if they could figure out a way to destroy just the... [continue]
| November 28, 2007
Urbanist is a photo series that will look at developments, architecture, trends and activities happening in various cities––including our own––to inspire the urbane urbanist at home to make Toronto a better place. December will bring about the demolition of the... [continue]
November 25, 2007
Ever marvel at the architecture of Casa Loma, Osgoode Hall and the Ontario Legislature in Queen's Park? Those lovely red-brick buildings, dear friends, are the legacy of Toronto's vernacular building material—sweet slabs formed from the banks of the Don... [continue]
November 21, 2007
Urbanist is a photo series that will look at developments, architecture, trends and activities happening in various cities––including our own––to inspire the urbane urbanist at home to make Toronto a better place. While Toronto has been making headlines in recent... [continue]
A few months ago, Torontoist wrote about the practice of façadism in the downtown core. Façadism—which refers to the practice of retaining the front face, or "skin," of an old building and affixing it to a newer, usually larger... [continue]
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November 21, 2007
Last week, Maple Leaf Gardens quietly turned 76. When the Gardens was sold to Loblaw in 2004, it appeared that the grocery store chain would fast-track the historic building into a supermarket. Now the projected summer 2007 construction date... [continue]
November 18, 2007
Like it or not, there's no escaping the CN Tower. Views from the building are so ubiquitous that it's hard to find a genuinely interesting shot––to say nothing of shots of the building. Still, plenty of photographers pull off... [continue]
November 9, 2007
London's transit story of the week—if not the year—was Tuesday's re-opening of St. Pancras rail station after £800 million (that's $1.6 billion) of renovations. Not only does the station provide London with a new terminus for a high-speed 300km/h... [continue]