Eye Weekly The Grid isn’t the only Toronto publication unveiling a new design today. (We’ll have more on that one in a short while.) Hardcore city geeks have known for a while that Urban Toronto is a great resource for learning more about the shape of development here, and for picking up detailed information about [...]

Last month, Newmarket-born superstar Jim Carrey relaunched his website, which has morphed into a surrealistic, down-the-rabbit-hole affair, as if designed by Terry Gilliam and René Magritte. We were amused to find Toronto playing a cameo role in the “Origins” page, which also features a photo gallery of Carrey’s early days in Newmarket, Burlington, and Toronto. [...]

Remaining virtually unchanged for about a decade, nobody would argue that the TTC’s brutal web site wasn’t in need of a total revamp. We even teamed up with Spacing Wire, Reading Toronto, and blogTO to solicit a fantastic amount of useful feedback, which we then forwarded to the Commission with high hopes. Now the TTC [...]

As far as people’s choice awards for architecture go, the Argyle Authentic Lofts (above, top) were all but a shoo-in. Old and new, pretty but reserved, the project was predictably named the most-loved entrant in this year’s Pug Awards on Wednesday night, with an overwhelming 91.4% of the more than 50,000 voters saying they loved [...]

“City State,” writes Toronto Life‘s Philip Preville in his first post on the magazine’s new blog of that name, “will try to take some of the piss out of this town.” To wit: Here’s another urban riddle for you: Why doesn’t Toronto have a better sense of humour about itself? Wit, pun, snark, cheek and [...]

In an article in last Saturday’s Globe about NOW and Eye‘s dwindling readerships, Eye‘s City Editor Edward Keenan told the Globe that “we keep asking, how do we reinvent ourselves? But maybe we should stop trying to be the best of a dying species.” Keenan’s words felt a bit out of place, coming, as they [...]

The Pug Awards are back! Now in their fourth year, the awards name the best and worst new buildings in Toronto, as determined by visitors who choose whether they love or hate the 21 nominees on the Pug Awards’ website. In the previous three years, Toronto Police Service 51 Division’s building, the National Ballet School, [...]

There’s been much debate in recent days over whether or not the TTC should remodel its crumbling, 50s-era “bathroom tile” subway stations (since now they can). A vocal proponent of the renovation plan has been TTC Commissioner and Councillor Sandra Bussin, who thinks that the common masses aren’t design-savvy enough to hold an opinion of [...]

Photo by Thomas Hawk. Although we know that every resident of Toronto is a huge fan of the “betterer way,” and that not a single one of you has a complaint about the TTC’s long wait times, we recognize that it is sometimes necessary to invest in your own personal motorized vehicle. Aside from the [...]