At the Wellington Street entrance of the CBC Broadcast Centre, visitors of a certain age are met with some familiar sights from their childhoods: the treehouse from Mr. Dressup, a gang of puppets from Sesame Park, and the ratty but iconic Rusty and Jerome figures from The Friendly Giant. Now, the family of the Giant aren't feeling too friendly following a comedic skit shown during this year's Gemini Awards, and they are demanding the removal......

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 years for its investment in artistic institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum, and the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Ottawa has been in the spotlight of late because......

A collection of façades on BCE Place on Wellington Street. As a follow-up to Torontoist's previous article on façadism in architecture, we sought the expertise of Alec Keefer, president of Toronto Architectural Conservancy. He took us on a tour of some examples of façadism around the city. He chose to focus on the downtown core because of its volatile nature; as both the oldest part of the city—with dozens of heritage sites—and the financial......