The distinction between old and new is sadly often blurred when historic buildings are adapted for new uses. Toronto examples show varying degrees of respect for “heritage ethic.” Here are six.
In an age of malls and online entertainment and shopping, main street businesses with heritage character who know how to adapt (as the Brunswick House did not) can thrive
Architectural Conservancy Ontario is campaigning to preserve a modernist masterpiece, but the school board seems sold on demolition
If she were writing The Death And Life Of Great American Cities today, Jane Jacobs might include 401 Richmond as an example of new ways of working that are transforming Toronto’s former factories into sites of post-industrial innovation. It’s a brilliant experiment born out of the real estate crisis of 20 years ago that is now being threatened by the latest boom.
New silicon-based “industries” are bringing employment, overwhelmingly of young people, into buildings that were once factories
How the Market can survive and thrive in the era of big planning
This year’s Heritage Toronto Awards recognize the traditions embedded in our buildings, neighbourhoods and landscapes by the people who built them with their own hands
Rental spaces for makers and blacksmithing are among the ideas pitched at Architectural Conservancy Ontario’s Next Gen design charette to breathe new life into once flaming bowels of Liberty Village incinerator site
As a last-gasp practice aimed at saving what’s left of our heritage buildings, Toronto has turned to building above, behind and inside them with results that are often bizarre and grotesque
Toronto’s architecture is brimming with facadism – building new structures above, behind or inside the skins of heritage buildings. Here are 16 examples
Is the cultural experience of life on Yonge Street doomed to succumb to gentrification?
If its elegance had been maintained, the Waverly might be considered “boutique” today, but that’s not going to happen in rapidly homogenizing Toronto
