Tag: Toronto
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Ai Wei Wei – Bicycles Forever at Nuit Blanche Toronto
Nuit Blanche is an evening when the streets of Toronto come alive. From sunset to sunrise, pockets of the city are filled with modern and contemporary art from around the world. This year, my journey thorough the extensive maze began at one end of the city and finished in the center of the action. Video…
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Stretch Your Limits
What does a flea market, concert stage and yoga class have in common? Well, they showcase the diversity of activities that can happen on a single site with the right level of imagination and community engagement. On the last Sunday in September, TAS partnered with Breath Yoga Studio, Best Health Magazine, Smart Water and DUKE Condos to have a mass yoga…
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TIFFing in Toronto
For 10 days in September, Toronto becomes ‘Hollywood North’. Celebrities flock to the city premiering their latest films in hopes of creating some Oscar buzz. For a veteran of the scene, the Toronto International Film Festival is more like a marathon of screenings and epic long lines. With over 40 celebrities in attendance, star gazing…
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Great Day for a Junction Flea
The Junction Flea, located at Dundas Street West and Keele Street, organized by SMASH owner Paul Mercer and Micah Lenahan, is Toronto’s only west end flea market. Held on the second Sunday of every month from 9-4pm, rain or shine, the Junction Flea features a mix of 70 independent vendors selling a range of goods…
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Frank Gehry does it again
“It’s pretty rare to have three buildings at this scale,” says Frank Gehry partner Craig Webb. “It’s something we haven’t done before. The three individual expressions emerge from a cloud-like podium. We don’t want to create another dark glass tower; we want something silky and soft. We want lightness.” Via thestar.com
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Shangri-La Hotel, Toronto
Located in the heart of Toronto is Shangri-La, a luxury hotel based on the legendary land featured in James Hilton‘s 1933 novel, Lost Horizon. The 202 spacious guest rooms are among the largest in Canada, starting at 490 square feet. Incorporated work areas and bedrooms are designed to enhance the sleep experience with generous bathrooms…
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Colour in the Streets
In a city as vibrant as Toronto it seems like the most dynamic elements of public space are hidden away from view.
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One Yonge by Hariri Pontarini Architects
One Yonge by Toronto-based firm Hariri Pontarini Architects will be a mixed-use development that re-defines the typical ration between residential, commercial and retail space within a single city block. Located on the longest street in North America, this proposed landmark will comprise of six new buildings, and the re-cladding and addition of 10 storeys to…
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Les Ailes Noires by +tongtong
Toronto-based studio +tongtong has designed a series of flexible and playful clothing racks. Les Ailes Noires, which is french for black wings, is a series of shapes that play with the sense of spatial and volumetric perception. The geometric welded steel collection features 11 pieces, that includes a full-length mirror, a wall-mounted sideboard with glass…
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Toronto, You’ve Changed!
The facility is undergoing a major redevelopment, opening up to the community just as scads of new high-end retail and restaurants open their doors. It seems like a race to capitalize on sky-rocketing real estate values and reach an increasingly upwardly mobile crowd.
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blackLAB Colours the Details
blackLAB architects use their personal surroundings as inspiration for their working space. The feature wall showcases an endless supply of prismacolor pencils that are readily available to the designers. While the table projects their working habits with their children.
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Igloo combines Work and Play
Igloo Design brings together the worlds of work and play within their container space. A wallpaper background of books creates a grid-like pattern within the room to comment on our digital culture and need for constant information. Alain Courchesne and Anna Abbruzzo of Igloo Design
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Samare Studio Displays Their Process
Samare Studio displays their thought process up on the walls. From images, to markets, snow shoes to set squares, nothing is left on the cutting room floor. Mania Bedikian of Samare Studio
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Joel Loblaw brings the Outside – Inside
Interior landscaping by Joel Loblaw Inc., brings the outside – inside with an artistic installation of painted logs and strategically places branches. Emily Hall of Joel Loblaw Inc.
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Nendo’s Stonegarden for Caesarstone
Stone garden designed by Nendo for Caesarstone. This exclusive collaboration was created for the 2013 Toronto Interior Design Show by Oki Sato. The collection of ‘table-like’ surfaces are clustered together to form a floating landscape resembling a traditional Japanese stone garden. The tables contain a single rod located in the middle of the finished material…
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Oki Sato of Nendo at IDS 2013
Oki Sato is the head designer for Japanese design firm Nendo. Born in Toronto, Oki graduated with a master’s in architecture from Waseda University in Tokyo in 2002. That same year, Oki and some of his classmates formed Nendo and established the company’s Tokyo office. A second office in Milan was established in 2005, and…
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