Sign Petition to Protect Kensington Market
Petition to Save Kensington Market at see item below for link http://www.change.org/kensington +read
Sign Petition to Protect Kensington Market
Eti GreenbergMay 13, 2013
Corner of Augusta and Baldwin Street
We just received encouraging news that Loblaws is feeling it in their reputation. They have contacted Councillor Adam Vaughan's office looking for ways that they might co-exist with Kensington Market without harming small food vendors.
Loblaws has suggested they may want to meet with the Kensington... +read
U of Toronto - Plastic Coated Asphalt Or Grass Common
Catherine NasmithMay 09, 2013
What is proposed now
Last week at Urbanspace Gallery several speakers laid out the case for preserving the University of Toronto’s Back Campus field as a publicly accessible common. The issue is the imminent construction of two field hockey courts for the PanAm games, a project that won approval from Governing Cou... +read
Heritage Toronto is excited to announce the launch of its 2013 Tours program!
Heritage TorontoMay 01, 2013
Many Torontonians know how great our walking tours are weve been putting them on for 19 years. Heritage Toronto Tours in 2013 will be a bit different. Its not just walking tours that well be offering - were excited to be expanding our usual walking tour program to include bus, bike, family and... +read
Heritage Canada Foundation National Awards Extends Deadline for Nominations to MAY 10!
Apr 29, 2013
Heritage Canada Foundations National Heritage Leadership Awards celebrate individuals, organizations and corporations whose work gives new life to Canadas historic places. The nomination deadline has been extended to May 10, 2013: - Lieutenant-Governors Award for Heritage Conservation This awar... +read
Toronto Sun:Vaughan Move to Designate Back Campus
aughan spearheads push to designate University of Toronto grass heritage landscape
Don PeatMay 16, 2013
Councillor Adam Vaughan
Councillor Adam Vaughan got the Toronto and East York community council to vote Tuesday to try to designate the grass on the University of Toronto’s back campus as a cultural heritage landscape.
The move could end up blocking U of T’s $9.5-million plan for two artificial turf fi... +read
Toronto Sun: Back Campus- Artificial Turf for Field Hockey No Good for Rugby
U of T's artificial turf plans leave rugby teams homeless
Catherine NasmithMay 16, 2013
U of T rugby coach Paul DiCarmine on the right and Assistant coach, Matt Hodgson on the field that there rugby teams have played for years at the University of Toronto in Toronto on May 15. They are losing the field to field hockey.
TORONTO - The University of Toronto’s $9.2-million plan to put in two synthetic turf fields to replace its out-of-sorts back campus field has left the school’s rugby teams in a tough spot.
The project would be ideal for field hockey and see the two fields installed between University Co... +read
Globe and Mail: New Life for Lorretto Convent, Guelph
Leap of faith gives convent new life in Guelph
Angela KryhulMay 14, 2013
The Sisters of Loretto Convent was never the architectural superstar of Catholic Hill, a collection of 19th century limestone religious and educational buildings perched high above the city of Guelph, Ont. Always a modest contrast to the ornate Church of Our Lady Immaculate, the former convent is no... +read
Atlantic Weekly: New Life for Cities from Old Buildings
How Historic Architecture Can Anchor Economic Development
Kaid BenfieldMay 13, 2013
It’s ridiculously easy to think about the benefits of historic preservation in immensely walkable Providence, Rhode Island. I’m not sure I’ve seen a better collection of downtown historic architecture this side of New Orleans. Elsewhere there are fine smaller historic downtowns, of... +read
The Atlantic Weekly: Sewer Art in Toronto
The Man Who Turns Toronto's Sewers Into Art
Eric JaffeMay 13, 2013
Many city residents prefer not to think about the underground network of dark and dirty pipes that carry their water and waste somewhere … else. Michael Cook isn't one of them. On the contrary, Cook goes out of his way to explore and illuminate all types of drain systems winding below... +read
New York Times: Columbus Indiana- Lets go
An Indiana Town Where Big Names Built
Nancy KriplenMay 13, 2013
Irwin Miller House, Columbus Indiana
Before he helped bring the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen to his hometown to design one of the first contemporary churches in America; before he commissioned Eliel’s son, Eero, to design an elegant midcentury modern house for his young family; and before he turned Columbus, Ind., into a livi... +read
Torontoist: On Ray Moriyama and Ontario Science Centre
Toronto Urban Legends: Raymond Moriyama Makes His Mark on the Ontario Science Centre
Edward BrownMay 13, 2013
In 1964, when Raymond Moriyama received the commission to design what was then known as the Centennial Museum of Science and Technology, the young architect told the Star, “I think it’s important to give every building the personal touch.”
When it came to the first big project of ... +read
Peterborough Examiner: Peterborough Inaugurates Search for Potential HCD's
Many options for heritage districts
Brendan WedleyMay 10, 2013
Catherine Nasmith at Peterborough HCD Workshop
Think of a Peterborough neighbourhood with a unique character that should be preserved.
It didn’t take the roughly 50 participants at a workshop on heritage districts to come up with a long list Tuesday night.
The Avenues just west of the downtown, the Point in East City next to Little Lake ... +read
Chronicle Herald: Sydney Yacht Club Fire
Fire destroys historic Sydney yacht club
Patricia BrooksMay 09, 2013
The beleagured Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club in Sydney was destroyed by fire Friday.
“It’s very extensive, the building will be completely burned down by the looks of it here,” Staff Sgt. Reg Hutchings, a Cape Breton Regional Police watch commander, said in an interview at about 2:... +read
Cape Breton Post: Yacht Club Arson
May 09, 2013
SYDNEY — A bail hearing for a 34-year-old Sydney man charged with arson in relation to the fire that destroyed the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club is now scheduled for today.
Derrick Joseph Harris, 34, of Victoria Road was scheduled to have a bail hearing Wednesday but the hearing was adjourned ... +read
Heritage Lottery Fund Study: New Ideas and New Growth in Heritage Buildings
New ideas need old buildings
May 06, 2013
Historic buildings and the historic quarters of our major towns and cities are the very places where new ideas and new growth are most likely to happen.
The research we publish in this report shows that the commercial businesses based in the historic buildings of our major cities are more productiv... +read
Peterborough Examiner: Heritage conservation is "good business
Rob McCormickMay 06, 2013
Erik Hanson and Debra Soule of the city Arts and Heritage division, chat opposite the Henthorn block Wednesday at the northeast intersection of George and Hunter Streets downtown. Clifford Skarstedt/Peterborough Examiner/QMI Agency
For Erik Hanson, Peterborough’s heritage resources co-ordinator, buildings aren’t just buildings. They’re living entities that help shape the human experience, and he has spent his career trying to preserve them.
His latest project will launch Tuesday night, when the city holds a ... +read
CBC News: Steel to Steel - 4 final ideas from Pittsburgh to Hamilton
Pittsburgh's strengths sound familiar, hospitals, universities, history and location
Samantha CraggsMay 03, 2013
"There's a resilience and persistence of people who have grown up in these industrial cities," says Don Carter, an urban renewal expert at Carnegie Mellon University. He encourages Hamilton and Pittsburgh to embrace their natural personalities. (Samantha
Pittsburgh and Hamilton, two Steeltowns, two cities forced to struggle with decline of their traditional manufacturing economies, two cities trying to find a new way. Pittsburgh is frequently held up as a model of economic redevelopment. Three major magazines have named it America's most livable cit... +read
CBC News: Community plan transformed the 'drive-by capital' of Pittsburgh
East Liberty went from being a crime hub to a place of pride. Part 3 of Steel to Steel: Bright ideas from Pittsburgh to Hamilton
Samantha CraggsMay 03, 2013
Bill Peduto, city councillor and candidate in this month's Pittsburgh mayoral race, says East Liberty's turnaround came from a detailed neighbourhood plan. (Samantha Craggs/CBC)
Pittsburgh and Hamilton, two Steeltowns, two cities forced to struggle with decline of their traditional manufacturing economies, two cities trying to find a new way. Pittsburgh is frequently held up as a model of economic redevelopment. Three major magazines have named it America's most livable cit... +read
Toronto Star: Online Toronto maps
Project puts the history of familiar streets a click away
Brian BellMay 02, 2013
OurDigitalWorld (http://ourdigitalworld.org), a Canadian non-profit, public service organization with user/members both in Canada and the United States. We provide a web-based service that enables organizations, especially non-profit community groups such as libraries, museums, historical and geneal... +read
CBC News: Pittsburgh foundation saves and flips old buildings
Group of concerned residents formed a non-profit organization 50 years ago. Part 2 of Steel to Steel: Bright ideas from Pittsburgh to Hamilton
Samantha CraggsMay 02, 2013
Station Square is one of the big successes of the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation. (PHLF)
Pittsburgh and Hamilton, two Steeltowns, two cities forced to struggle with decline of their traditional manufacturing economies, two cities trying to find a new way. Pittsburgh is frequently held up as a model of economic redevelopment. Three major magazines have named it America's most liv... +read
CBC News: Steel to Steel: Bright ideas from Pittsburgh
An abandoned warehouse has a new life in the Mattress Factory, a world-class art museum with installations from artists around the world. Part 1 of a 3-part series
ntha CraggsMay 02, 2013
Barbara Luderowski and Michael Olijnyk stand in Written Room, one of the latest installations at the Mattress Factory. The art museum is an economic driver in Pittsburgh. Local arts advocates say it could work here too. (Samantha Craggs/CBC)
Pittsburgh and Hamilton, two Steeltowns, two cities forced to struggle with decline of their traditional manufacturing economies, two cities trying to find a new way. Pittsburgh is frequently held up as a model of economic redevelopment. Three major magazines have named it America's most livable cit... +read
Enterprise Bulletin, Plans for 6 storey building scaled back to two.
Plans for Admiral scaled back
Ian Adams, Richard LexMay 01, 2013
COLLINGWOOD - The developers of Admiral Collingwood will revamp their plans for their project at the corner of Hume and Hurontario, opting to move ahead with a two-storey commercial building. The developer - Charis Developments, owned by local businessman Steve Assaff - had intended to build a six-... +read
Toronto Star: Leaside Centennial Celebrations
Stephen Harper cracked jokes with Premier Kathleen Wynne at a glitzy gala in a self-storage facility
Richard LautensApr 29, 2013
Stephen Harper cracked jokes with Premier Kathleen Wynne at a glitzy gala in a self-storage facility.
RICHARD LAUTENS / TORONTO STAR
Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks about his childhood in Leaside during a gala event marking the 100th anniversary of the area.
The Prime Minister waxed nostalgic... +read
Toronto Star: Why Keep Heritage Buildings
Why developers should heed the lesson of Union Station
Christopher HumeApr 29, 2013
Even now we are too quick to demolish, rather than respect and adapt our architectural heritage.By: Christopher
Buildings may not change, but attitudes do. What one generation can’t wait to tear down, the next is in a rush to save.
First came the mass demolitions of the 1950s, ’6... +read
