The city says that it has reached an agreement with the Ontario government about the redevelopment of a listed heritage site in Toronto’s East Don Lands after a sudden move to demolish buildings on the site earlier this year raised an outcry from community activists.
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Hidden Toronto: The Foundry buildings
The 100-year-old historic complex that used to be a manufacturing hub railway parts will be reimagined as a new development By Enzo DiMatteo
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The Dominion Wheel and Foundries Company site, the largest concentration of heritage buildings in the 40-hectare West Don Lands precinct
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Why you should check it out
Urbanist Jane Jacobs coined the concept that new ideas need old buildings. It’s true. Cities where heritage buildings have been preserved actually enjoy higher density, more diversity and entrepreneurial spirit.
In recent years, Toronto has seen many buildings from its industrial past reimagined and repurposed. The Toronto Carpet Factory, 401 Richmond, the former Spadina Hotel and Canadian General Electric building on Wallace Avenue are just a few examples where re-use has inspired artistic and technological innovation.
Attached to the Detached: South House, Mississauga, Ontario
Attached to the Detached: South House, Mississauga, Ontario
A bold blue addition transforms a suburban bungalow into a series of unconventional spaces for family living.
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A minimal addition clad in blue siding gives an usual presence to architect Joey Giaimo’s family home in suburban Mississauga. Photo by doublespace photography
PROJECT South House, Mississauga, Ontario
ARCHITECT Giaimo
PHOTOS doublespace photography
As you travel down Third Street in Lakeview, Mississauga a neighbourhood just west of Toronto a monolithic volume on a corner lot stands out for being unlike anything else in the suburban residential area. Neighbours have nicknamed it “the blue house,” and from certain angles, the blue-faced block looks like an entirely new construction, rather than an addition to an existing home. It has no windows and minimal details. An inset cedar door and an exaggerated scupper are the only hints of
Research Road Redux
Elevation view of south facade, 20 Research Road, 2017.
During the Second World War, my mother, Louise MacCallum, was among the 7,500 employees of Research Enterprises Limited (REL), a top-secret government-owned manufacturing facility in Leaside that produced optical equipment and radar sets for the military.
Women made up half the workforce at REL. My mother remembered being paid $15 a week for assembly line work, which was below the average wage for women employed in war industries. The plant functioned on a two-shift schedule, each shift initially 60 hours per week, but later reduced to 45 hours.
An REL employee tests artillery gunsights in the summer of 1943. From Wikipedia.