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…
Hume with a View
Designing the landscape of Toronto’s unpredictable future
byUntil recently, we thought of the city as a place. Now we are starting to see it as a process. That’s why landscape architecture…
Christopher Hume talks to 680 News
byToday 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.
When The Future Came To Toronto: Welcome To The Year 2037
byEditor’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,…
Toronto could lose role as world city, says urban planner
byCanada’s most celebrated city planner, Larry Beasley, is adamant. The most important prerequisite for success, he insists, is optimism. Without it, Beasley says, planners…
Toronto’s urban renaissance lurching along
byOf all the problems Toronto faces, the most worrisome may be those posed by its own success. The city has become so desirable, and…
Bringing Toronto’s heritage to life
byAt a time when the typical response to heritage is to tear it down as quickly and quietly as possible — preferably early on…
Sell-out crowd for Toronto Storeys’ Evening of Architecture
byIn 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…
Toronto moves on with Gardiner off-ramp
byNowhere is the reclamation of Toronto unfolding more dramatically than on the waterfront. Whole swaths of what was long a neglected industrial wasteland are…
Toronto hits it out of the park with new greenspaces
byLately, it seems a walk in the park has become a lot more interesting here in Toronto. In recent weeks, no fewer than three…