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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'torontolifesquare'

March 22, 2008

Ever wander past Yonge and Dundas, and wonder what in the world is going on inside that big building constructed of towering TV screens, covered in abnormally-sized ads and lacquered with logos? Starting this weekend, AMC allows Torontonians a sneak peek at the secret—or rather, all twenty-four of them. Known for inventing the cupholder armrest that is the cinema standard today, and setting the standard for the future with their "Digital Theatre Distribution System"—screens......

Continue Reading "A Reel Deal"

January 29, 2008

Behold what might eventually become of Sniderman's Corner: an attractive first rendering of the Ryerson Student Learning Centre. To be built at Yonge and Gould on the former sites of Sam The Record Man and the freshly-vacated Future Shop, the building represents Ryerson's desperately coveted access to the Yonge Street strip. To be designed by critical darlings KPMB Architects and Daoust Lestage, the institutionally glassy building will incorporate the historically designated Sam's marquee, which......

Continue Reading "Classing Up The Joint"

November 26, 2007

Contributor Tony Makepeace is taking us for some spins around our city with his fantastic VR panoramas. You can look up, down, side to side, in and out—pretty much every direction but back at yourself, which would be kind of creepy. Say hello to Panoramaist: the Toronto shoe-gazer's worst enemy. Click on the preview image above to launch the QuickTime VR panorama in a new window. Panoramaist is best viewed on a fast computer.......

Continue Reading "Panoramaist: Toronto Life Square"

November 16, 2007

The arrival of Toronto Life in the mailbox each month is something to look forward to, except for one thing: the ridiculous payload of advertising that comes with it. Now, we understand that magazines generally lose money on subscriptions, and Toronto Life's $24 annual fee is worth every penny, but we think that Toronto Life is starting to look more like Toronto Life Square. Subscription card "blow-ins" and heavy-stock ad inserts are extremely unpopular......

Continue Reading "Quick! Spot The Magazine"

October 23, 2007

After decades of being situated as an icon of Queen Street West, it has been revealed that Citytv will be moving to a new high-profile location: Dundas Square. Since Rogers Communications announced plans to acquire Citytv, there has been much speculation about what would happen to the legendary Queen Street studios. The solution became the former Olympic Spirit complex at the south-east corner of Dundas Square. Built for $42 million in 2004, the building......

Continue Reading "City In The Square"

May 22, 2007

Welcome to Torontoist's new weekly Lit. Listings of all things bookish, wordy, and between the covers. We want to highlight the "lit" in Toronto's literary scene: as you, dear reader, may have noticed, a lot of writing about writing is dull, and could be improved with a bit of light. We are living in a time when major newspapers are folding their books sections, and even alternative weeklies forget their literary pages once in......

Continue Reading "LitTO: May22–May 28"

April 11, 2007

With rights being awarded right and left to rename every sports facility and theatre, this is one of the strangest yet, and despite our general aversion to runaway corporate whoring, dare we say we actually kinda like it? The long-awaited and troubled Metropolis complex finally rising over Yonge and Dundas is to be renamed Toronto Life Square, after the popular magazine owned by St. Joseph Communications. Not only is it ironically highbrow to dub......

Continue Reading "Metropolis Naming Rights Awarded"

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