My review of Toronto’s new Mass timber tower: a quiet triumph. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

My review of Toronto’s new Mass timber tower: a quiet triumph. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ron Thom’s masterpiece, Massey College (1963).

This is tiresome: a couple builds a 4100 ft.² second home, but reuses materials and so it is supposedly eco-friendly. What’s even greener: - Keeping the existing building - Not having a second home at all

Toronto should charge a lot for parking. Instead it punishes new arrivals and gives a gift to wealthy existing house owners.

Anyone interested in creating better? #PlacesForPeople? Come to this exciting event bring me together thought leaders and creative thinkers on how designed policy design leadership and design ideas can create better places. @alexbozikovic.bsky.social @oaarchitects.bsky.social

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

At Berczy Park. The Dog Fountain keeps winning.

The 1980s in Canada. What a wild time. This is an elevated McDonald's with a gas bar under it somewhere in Barrie.

Toronto, 1842.

A piece in the Star today along with Jonathan English and Narayan Donaldson on fixing the very slow, but very high potential Spadina streetcar. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The Globe and Mail's (@theglobeandmail.com) incredible Opinion team is hiring an editor. Details below, but message me if you have any questions: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...

It’s not like Ford is short on land … every generation of corporation cycling between box and swoop … another Natalie de Blois design disappears

There were many moments in this piece that caught me: not just Love You Forever, but the portrait of dementia: that terrible place where you know it's happening to you, the beautiful moments where memory is somehow still fresh and unaffected. But also, Love You Forever. That one always kills me.

Alexandra Park housing, not long for this world

"everything in the city has to be for me" kind of seems like the whole problem to begin with, doesn't it 🤣 diversity of choices always seems to be the solution, too...

The missing piece of RapidTO.

Progressive crits of “urbanism” can miss the specificity of Canada’s urban history. The big cities 1950-1975 built tons of apartments; that *did* help keep them affordable. Suburban flight was not the whole story. Not even close. iwouldprefernotto.substack.com/p/cities-are...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.

Toronto spent a decade doing nothing with this heavily visited public space. This year, its parks dept needed help from an outside agency to install shade sails.

Leadership. Physical transformation of a big city. Imagine

I saw a delightful lecture today by two up and coming Indigenous designers at Brook McIlroy. They are doing meaningful work for communities that have never seen themselves represented in the built environment. Some things are good! bsky.app/profile/joce...

Forget the puns: public toilets matter. Toronto is getting them wrong. The city could miss a huge opportunity to boost its own design culture. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The world is burning. Anyone want to talk about architecture

Toronto plans to repair and replace more than 125 public bathrooms across the city. It's long-overdue effort to tackle an essential civic problem, but do the new loos have to be ugly? by @alexbozikovic.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

In this spot on column, @alexbozikovic.bsky.social cites the "To the Loo!" design competition we co-sponsored. The winning design and runners up will be featured in our next issue. It would be fantastic if they ended up featured in an actual Toronto park. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Forget the puns: public toilets matter. Toronto is getting them wrong. The city could miss a huge opportunity to boost its own design culture. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

An excellent read. Cars take up all the room.

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“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

Always neat to get a real good opportunity to reup @resnikoff.bsky.social's insights. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

. @novakovicto.bsky.social rounds up the Aga Khan Awards: www.azuremagazine.com/article/the-...

In Ontario, criminal vigilantism works and will influence gov't policy. Keep that in mind.

There’s a very clear signal here that Toronto police do not care about this camera or this crime. If this guy was vandalizing police cars, he would’ve been caught in a week www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is possible. Also Rail Deck, in retrospect, was vaporware and a distraction from the actual public works that the city should’ve been building in boom times.

I was never a big hockey fan, but I had Ken Dryden as a professor at McGill in Canadian Studies. We talked about citizenship and patriotism, and what all of that means. One day, I put up my hand in class. I told him I was Canadian, voted in every election, and considered myself civically engaged. 1/

We praise “culturally responsive” design, even when we know almost nothing about the cultures it’s responding to. Lately, I’ve started to think of architectural criticism as its own type of diaspora. In @azuremagazine.bsky.social, one of my more intimate pieces: www.azuremagazine.com/article/hous...

Important reminder from our @alexbozikovic.bsky.social that the Toronto/Ontario deal for density around transit stations is not yet real and has to make it through council. Would city councillors oppose development right by transit, you ask? Yes, some would www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Honoured to share the stage with Toronto's hottest urbanist tonight.

Will Toronto get more density? It’s complicated. I report on recent transit area changes to planning that could transform the city www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90421fe...

Big cities in the US and Canada chose to choke growth and strangle their housing markets in the 1960s. The consequences continue to stack up

Toronto: It’s good

Exhibition Place is the biggest wasted opportunity in Toronto from an economic, cultural and public space perspective. The Indy is part of the problem. www.thestar.com/sports/auto-...

Will Toronto get more density? It’s complicated. I report on recent transit area changes to planning that could transform the city www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90421fe...

The year is 2010 and I'm reading about opposition to development on Ossington The year is 2025 and I'm reading about opposition to development on Ossington The year is 2040 and

This has been low-hanging fruit for every Toronto mayor and parks director for the past 30 years. Nothing.

Sitting at Ziibiing on a beautiful summer day watching the world go by. This space is so much better used than it was when it was just Hart House Circle. It's hard to tell who is a UofT community member from looks, but I've seen all ages from toddlers to the elderly in just a short half hour.

The state of the Canadian housing discourse. I’ve now been blocked on three social media platforms by Andy Yan, professor @sfuurb.bsky.social, who speaks to “friendly” media all the time.

Coliseum, Exhibition Place, Toronto, 1940s Artist: Nicholas Hornyansky, 1896-1965 Medium: Pencils, & watercolour washes Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library #hornyansky #1940s #architecture #exhibition #coliseum #sketch #torontoart #art #artist #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin