How Toronto built the CN Tower - Spacing Toronto
Jun 24, 2016 · The CN Tower under construction on the CN rail lands on August 18, 1973. Image: City of Toronto Archives. Construction on the CN Tower began on the site of a CN railway siding in February, 1973. Gone was the three-tower design unveiled in the 1960s, replaced by the one familiar today, and also gone was Canadian Pacific.
First Canadian Place: 40 years on top in Toronto
May 13, 2015 · First Canadian Place became the tallest office building in Toronto and Canada on January 13, 1975, when steelworker Gerry Deschamps bolted the first horizontal structural beam higher than the roof of Commerce Court. Though construction generally progressed as expected, there were hiccups. A $150,000 shipment of normally crisp white Carrera ...
Spacing | Canadian Urbanism Uncovered
Spacing | Canadian Urbanism Uncovered. Vancouver Architecture. Book Review – The Shape of the Land: Topography & Landscape Architecture. By Erick Villagomez. Editor: Marc Treib (ORO Editions, 2022) Transforming the natural environment is fundamental to our species. Since ancient times, humans have reshaped landscapes for a variety of purposes.
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered - Spacing Vancouver
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Vancouver Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public ...
Spacing Magazine - Spacing Magazine | Spacing Magazine
In open spaces, it travels easily, invisibly and inescapably pervading our experience when we go outside. So it fits right into Spacing’s mandate to explore Toronto’s public realm. In this issue, we look a both the good and the bad of public sound. We hear from people seeking to reduce noise, and people seeking to create opportunities to ...
Robarts Library, an architectural oral history - Spacing Toronto
Nov 30, 2023 · When the University of Toronto’s John P. Robarts Research Library, located at St. George and Harbord streets, opened its doors in 1973, it was the largest academic library building in the world, covering 1,036,000 square feet, housing nearly 3 million volumes and providing space for 4,100 users. Even then, its Brutalist raw concrete aesthetic, massiveContinue reading "Robarts Library, an ...
Poetry in community: Q&A with poet Ronna Bloom - Spacing …
April 12, 2021. Ronna Bloom is former Poet in Residence at Mount Sinai Hospital, now Sinai Health System. Long before face coverings became mandatory on the TTC or line-ups formed outside of pharmacies, Bloom documented in her poetry the exhaustion of expressing emotions behind a medical mask and the anxiety of securing a flu shot.
Book Review: Soft City - Spacing National | Spacing National
Jan 28, 2020 · Author: David Sim (Island Press, 2019) Bringing the soft back to cities Cities are often caricatured as hard and harsh. Concrete, steel, loud noises, crowds and congestion, bright lights, fast speeds, isolated people. With the increasing focus on ‘smart cities’, we are in danger of adding another layer of technocracy to our cities, further …
S101S – Understanding Residential Density: Why is it so Confusing?
Feb 6, 2023 · What is residential density and why is it so confusing? Residential density is critical to urban planning. It refers to the number of people living in a specific area and is significant because it helps us understand how densely populated an area is. It’s also very controversial. In certain folks, increasing density evokes fear aboutContinue reading "S101S – …
Stroll: Don Mills & photos from the Moccasin-Rainbow trail
Dec 6, 2007 · The parkette here on the northeast corner is named after urban planner Macklin Hancock, a local hero. When he was just 27 years old, he took leave from his graduate studies at Harvard to go to work for Toronto tycoon E.P. Taylor, designing Canada’s first planned suburb. Built between 1952 and 1965, Don Mills was, and is, a modern wonderland ...