Getting in on the ground floor: Where a building connects to the city
byWe may think we’re looking for things we buy when we go shopping, but what we really want is an experience. So says Rob…
We may think we’re looking for things we buy when we go shopping, but what we really want is an experience. So says Rob…
Until recently, we thought of the city as a place. Now we are starting to see it as a process. That’s why landscape architecture…
Today Christopher Hume talks to 680 News about the story he wrote on Google’s Quayside. Click here to listen. Click here for the full story.
Editor’s note: Christopher Hume creates a fictitious, futuristic look into what Toronto could be, 30 years from now, with Google’s ambitious Quayside, a high-tech,…
Canada’s most celebrated city planner, Larry Beasley, is adamant. The most important prerequisite for success, he insists, is optimism. Without it, Beasley says, planners…
Of all the problems Toronto faces, the most worrisome may be those posed by its own success. The city has become so desirable, and…
At a time when the typical response to heritage is to tear it down as quickly and quietly as possible — preferably early on…
In one of the most buzzed-about events of the summer, Toronto’s leading architects came together for a fascinating roundtable discussion to talk about the…
Nowhere is the reclamation of Toronto unfolding more dramatically than on the waterfront. Whole swaths of what was long a neglected industrial wasteland are…
Lately, it seems a walk in the park has become a lot more interesting here in Toronto. In recent weeks, no fewer than three…