Jarvis Street, circa 1910. (City of Toronto Archives) Torontonians should be ashamed at what happened to Jarvis Street. The city's first paved road was once the grandest tree-lined boulevard around, bracketed by the mansions of some of Toronto's wealthiest movers and shakers. Then, in the 1940s, the stately Jarvis boulevard was transformed: trees were pulled down and sidewalks ripped up to make way for the automobile. Jarvis Street was turned from a gorgeous historical......

One day Pamela Anderson stood in the centre turn lane of a highway, clad only in a Canadian flag...picturing it? Welcome to the lead photo for the "Best of Canada" edition of SNAP!. Now in its seventh year, SNAP! combines a juried competition for established and emerging photographers with a gala fundraiser on March 2 at the National Ballet School. Organizers predict that the works offered in live and silent auctions will raise $140,000......

The verdict is in, and the umbrellas are going up! Following an invited competition to design a new public space for the Jarvis Slip, Waterfront Toronto has revealed the winner, unanimously chosen by the design jury: Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagistes Inc. As outlined in our competition coverage, the Cormier plan—dubbed "Sugar Beach"—will bring an HtO Park-style "urban beach" to the foot of Jarvis Street, dotted with charming steel umbrellas and Muskoka chairs. The sandy......

Moving insect legs! A dazzling shimmer wall! Faux beach, part deux! Waterfront Toronto has selected three proposals for the redevelopment of the Jarvis Street slip area, which currently features a dumpy, underutilized parking lot and not much else. Already part of the greater Waterfront Revitalization Plan, Lower Jarvis and Queen's Quay will soon be home to some new architecture (namely First Waterfront Place, the headquarters and studios of Corus Entertainment) and will be the......

A massive fire at a townhouse complex on Jarvis Street near Mutual resulted in the death of an unidentified victim on Saturday night. Construction on the townhouses had been abandoned for ten months and the building was being inhabited by squatters, says a resident at the adjacent Radio City condo tower. Novelist Norman Mailer died this weekend. Kim Ruehl at Seattlest has a nice eulogy: "He was, as most great novelists are, a complete......

Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. Photo by gbalogh from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Previously on A City Intersected, we visited Front Street East & Jarvis Street, one of......

Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. Photo by Metrix X from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. A short walk east of Union Station will take you to one of Toronto’s......

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! Power outages plagued the downtown core when a hydro panel in a buried electrical vault outside the Eaton Centre caught fire. With the system on a network, it initially seemed to have only affected the south side of the......

The Christmas tree that a judge banished from the Jarvis Street courthouse lobby was mysteriously moved back to the lobby yesterday morning, then back to the hallway, and apparently will now be returned to the lobby at the orders of the Attorney-General. Little Cindy Lou Who was quoted as saying “it’s a Christmas miracle.” The debate over the pay raise for Ontario MPPs is set to close, in spite of NDP members complaining that......

Another scholastic year has come to an end, and the design students at Seneca's School of Fashion and Merchandising will hope to redefine our image of what fashion in Canada truly is. With their wholly student-produced "Redefining Design" exhibit, the School of Fashion hopes to celebrate the work of students graduating from Seneca’s intensive three-year Fashion Arts diploma program. The show will also showcase the work of the school's Make-Up and Esthetics students and Visual......

With the city in a frenzied upsurge of residential architecture, and everyone from Harry Stinson (with his, er, quietly tasteful Sapphire Tower design) to the Donald (having hard-balled the City into allowing his Trump Tower to jump from 68 to 70 stories) leaping for a piece of the pie, Torontoist can’t help but wonder the fate of our dreaded waterfront. Whether for better or worse, its transformation will represent the biggest architectural development of our......