The Toronto Star's architecture critic looks ahead at 2005 and likes what he sees.
In this piece, Christopher Hume opines that while Toronto may still remain "a bastion of architectural mediocrity", the completion of a number of significant projects will make 2005 a key year in Toronto's cultural renaissance. These include the first phase of Daniel Libeskind's makeover of the Royal Ontario Museum, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg's expansion of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Sir Norman Foster's pharmaceutical building at the University of Toronto, and Behnisch and Behnisch's cellular and biomolecular research centre on College Street. As a result of the projects, and others that are in the pipeline for 2006, "the next few years should be the most exciting in decades" for architecture in Toronto.
Thanks to Geoffrey Singer
Read the full story: In 2005, Toronto building for the future
Planetizen Federal Action Tracker
A weekly monitor of how Trump’s orders and actions are impacting planners and planning in America.
Amtrak, CN end decades-long dispute with eight-year agreement
The new operating agreement establishes an updated framework for the companies to work together, including processes to resolve disputes.
Judges permit Denver to divert 77,000 acre feet from the Colorado River for reservoir expansion
Overuse and climate change have caused the Colorado River’s water levels to plummet.
Boston has spent millions making the Green Line more accessible — and there’s no end in sight
While the city has invested millions into expanding and adding platforms to the Green Line to make it more accessible, new train cars set to arrive next year will be too tall for disabled passengers to board without raising the current platforms.
Idaho may see an 18% drop in federal surface transit funding — the largest estimated cut in the US
Transit systems in rural communities are much more reliant on federal funding to provide their services.
How ‘post-disaster gentrification’ alters neighborhoods after natural calamities
After hurricanes, fires or other calamities, the original residents of a community are often replaced by younger, wealthier residents.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello