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Book Review: Velotopia

Author: Steven Fleming (nai010 publishers, 2017) “No one would say Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin did good for the world, but we can learn so much from his logical process. If Le Corbusier were alive now,...

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Book Review: Glacier Skywalk

Written by Clea Sturgess, Trevor Boddy, and Jeremy Sturgess – Figure 1 Publishing (2017)  The Glacier Skywalk construction process had to be carefully planned to be as efficient as possible on a fixed...

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Book Review – Los Angeles Boulevard: Eight X-Rays of the Body Public

Author: Doug Suisman (ORO Editions, 2014) As an urban design instructor, practitioner and bibliophile, it is a rare pleasure to discover lesser known, critical and insightful books on urban structure....

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Book Review: Binning House

Author: Matthew Soules (ORO Editions, 2017) Spending time in the Binning House is like being enveloped in a gentle super-reality, not a parallel reality, but a simple amplification or re-positioning of...

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Book Review – You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

Author: Wendy Lesser (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) When I was completing the final project of my Interior Design degree, I started the project off by buying a monograph of well-known modern...

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Call for Entries: Urbanarium’s 2017 Missing Middle Housing Competition

What would it take to solve Vancouver’s housing crisis? The not-for-profit organization Urbanarium has issued an invitation to talented designers from around the world to develop and present...

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Book Review – Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability

Author: Eyal Weizman (MIT Press, 2017) I was as surprised as anybody: consoling a number of design students in the foyer of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) after spending three hours...

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Book Review – Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson

Author: Hugh Howard (Bloomsbury Press, 2016) In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867-1959) began it...

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Film Review: BIG Time

Director: Kaspar Astrup Schröder Not often does Spacing have the opportunity to review a movie receiving its North American premier, including an interview with the film’s director, but such has been...

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Book Review: The Visual Biography of Color

Author: Frank Jacobus (ORO Editions, 2016) Like so many wonderful facets of world that permeate our lives, colour is often taken for granted. More than a visual phenomenon, its references penetrate...

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The Robbie collection of Expo 67 objects

Rod Robbie is a Canadian architecture legend, but to Caroline, Angus, Karen, and Nicola ­— the keepers of Rod’s vast archives — he was just a dad with a cool job and a pack-rat tendency. Torontonians...

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Sustainability infrastructure and the pursuit of global city status: a look...

This post by Ryan Anders Whitney is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Ryan is an urban sustainability planner and current PhD...

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Book Review – Villages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal...

Editor: Stefan Al (University of Hawai’i Press, 2014) Although writing and research on informal settlements has increased significantly over the past decades, works that attempt to accurately capture...

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Book Review: Friedman House

Written by Richard Cavell, ORO Editions (2017) UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series Following Dr. Friedman’s passing, the fate of the house was uncertain, and an attempt to acquire a heritage...

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Notes from Italy

“To make this course of action clear to my French readers, I must explain that in Italy, a country very far away from us, people are still driven to despair by love.” Stendahl Stendahl Syndrome can be...

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By: Denis

Any hints at to who made these? They are gorgeous! Maybe it points the way to some long lost treasure… or a Masonic lodge or something! Who says dreaming is only for kids? =0)

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By: LE GROS

J’aime le dinosaure! WRAAAAARRRHHH!!!

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By: Factotum

Well done, Anonymous!

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By: Bolm

Ça pourrait être de “Rocky”, qui a fait un projet similaire à Toronto probablement en ’99. Le sujet des images avait comme focus “Prison Justice Day”, un mouvement commencé dans les prisons...

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By: Bolm

Quoi que ça pourrait être de quelqu’un d’autre aussi, qui s’appelle Lali, je ne me souviens plus de son nom de famille. C’est une artiste, et peut-être elle vie encore dans le Mile-End. Je la trouve...

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