Toronto, City of Gas, 1909-1936. As presented in the commercial photography of F.W. Micklethwaite Studio for the Consumers' Gas Company By Peter MacCallum. Once they had been declared functionally obsolete, most of the monumental industrial structures that figured on the skylines of North American cities throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were promptly demolished, with no ...

A city’s arts form an ecosystem. It’s easy to focus on the big features – the trees, as it were – but the true health of the system lies in the understory, in the buzz of life at the ground level, in the shoots springing up and creatures hustling in the earth that supports the larger structures.

Toronto, City of Gas, 1909-1936. As presented in the commercial photography of F.W. Micklethwaite Studio for the Consumers' Gas Company By Peter MacCallum. Once they had been declared functionally obsolete, most of the monumental industrial structures that figured on the skylines of North American cities throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were promptly demolished, with no ...

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Jun 3, 2019 · Author: Kat Holmes (The MIT Press, 2017) The idea of universal design is powerful and (hopefully) prevalent in everything designers do. As I read Kat Holmes’ Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design, however, I realized that too often designers rely on generalizations across many dimensions of design-thinking, ultimately resulting in sterilized solutions befitting of both everyoneContinue ...

Jun 11, 2021 · Street lighting is an important, yet overlooked, part of any city’s standard infrastructure. For over seventy years, Toronto’s streets were lit with an elegant and increasingly unique streetlamp design. But modern standards and a desire for standardization will see this change, just as Toronto’s streetcars and street signs have. Starting in 1949, the CityContinue reading "Shining a light ...

Jun 12, 2015 · Nothing epitomizes space age urbanism quite like the revolving restaurant. Imagine sitting at the top of a modern skyscraper, the lights of the city twinkling below, enjoying a rib eye steak or prawn cocktail served in a wine glass. In the background, there’s light piano music and the faint clink of cutlery over hushed conversation. Out the window, a civilized world ofContinue reading "A ...

Nov 12, 2016 · In 1949, a team of professors and graduate students at the University of Toronto began building a machine no-one in Canada, and few in the world, had ever seen before. The University of Toronto Electronic Computer Mark I—UTEC for short—was to become the first and only functional computer in the country, but first it had to be constructed entirelyContinue reading "The story behind the first ...

Sep 16, 2014 · While mid-century commercial architecture was embracing International Style with its clean-edged steel and glass construction, Modernism in Vancouver’s homes was evolving into something with a more organic sensibility.

May 29, 2020 · I went over to see 888 Dupont Street earlier this month. “I hope you haven’t come to criticize me,” said the old building, aware of the rough face it presents a gentrifying neighbourhood. “Don’t be embarrassed,” I replied, as you do with old friends. The area is not fully chic yet, and we’re family here,Continue reading "888 Dupont: Conversations with an old building"