Extra, Extra: A Live Eye on the City and a Space-Saving House to Die For
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Extra, Extra: A Live Eye on the City and a Space-Saving House to Die For

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  • Want to pretend you’re gazing out your window from your Liberty Village condo-in-the-sky? The Toronto Skyline Webcam, which launched Wednesday, is an embeddable widget that shows an eastern-looking view of downtown and also includes news, weather, and updates from the #Toronto Twitter feed. According to Eventstream president J. Michael Dawson, it is Toronto’s only live webcam streaming video 24/7. “When we were researching webcams in Toronto we discovered there were none that were live streaming. All of them were just using a refreshing image,” Dawson told us via email. “How can the biggest city in Canada not have a live city webcam?” He also said the company plans to run the webcam indefinitely and might eventually add cameras so viewers can look in other directions.

  • Despite the somewhat anticlimactic unveiling of the iPhone 4S, gadget gobblers across the city couldn’t wait to get their hands on the new smartphone today. At the Toronto Eaton Centre, the lineup began outside the Apple Store at 6 p.m. last night, and from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. this morning, eager customers were forced out of the mall to wait outside in the rain, the Star reported; CTV Toronto talked to one man who flew to Toronto from Brazil to get his hands on the phone.
  • Kudos to architect Reza Aliabadi and the team at rzlbd for proving it’s possible to build a 16-foot-wide house that’s beautiful and spacious-looking. The so-called “Shaft House” is located on a 20-foot infill in East York. Not only is the design brilliant, but it’s built from cost-effective and sustainable materials too. So, um, when can we move in?
  • The Toronto Sculpture Garden celebrated its 30th anniversary last month with the installation of Jed Lind’s Gold, Silver & Lead, an imposing stack of bone-coloured Honda Civics that becomes increasingly skeletal as it rises. It’s not the first intriguing piece to grace the garden since it opened in 1981, as you’ll see in this roundup of installations by Paige Magarrey for Toronto Standard. Stick to reading about the TSG this weekend rather than visiting, however, because according to its website, the park is closed until October 17.

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