2009 Heritage Toronto Awards

One of Spacing’s favorite civic events is the Heritage Toronto Awards night at the Carlu. It’s a night when Toronto boosters, architecture preservationists and city builders are honoured. But maybe more importantly there is the visible sign that there are (lots of) others who are quietly working away in their own corners of the city. This year, instead of the traditional William Kilbourn Memorial Lecture, Heritage Toronto is holding The Great Toronto Roast where the roasters will take pokes at T

2009 Heritage Toronto Awards

One of Spacing’s favorite civic events is the Heritage Toronto Awards night at the Carlu. It’s a night when Toronto boosters, architecture preservationists and city builders are honoured. But maybe more importantly there is the visible sign that there are (lots of) others who are quietly working away in their own corners of the city. This year, instead of the traditional William Kilbourn Memorial Lecture, Heritage Toronto is holding The Great Toronto Roast where the roasters will take pokes at T

The man who changed the face of Britain - passionate Pugin

After we posted a mediaeval drawing yesterday, the author of the inspiring A Little Guide for Your Last Days urged us to look at Pugin. Actually we had written about this wonderful artist before, but not all that well. So we pruned and polished the earlier post and added details - Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was the writer and architect who almost single-handedly revived the architecture of Christian mediaeval England. He spearheaded the Gothic revival in Victorian Britain, recons

The Revolution Will Be Illustrated

Early-20th-century artists and designers greatly admired Russian revolutionary posters and typography, and the art movements that sprang from the October Revolution: Constructivism, Suprematism and Productivism. These fostered new forms of painting, sculpture, architecture, advertising and graphic design. Much of this art was not, however, art for art’s sake, but rather a means to propagate the ideology of the state. When it began, the Russian avant-garde was a radical departure from accept

Do Anything 008 by Warren Ellis

008 A section from a list of things that happened to comics on a Phildickian alternate world in 2009: • David Gibbons knighted for services to architecture. “I was fucking robbed,” says Peter Cook, architect and co-founder of Archigram, who realises that without the knighthood he is no longer a loveable eccentric but now simply a crazy man who mutters about strange buildings. • Reissue of Alan Moore’s “Voice Of The Fire” ambient/spoken-word trilogy of albums from 1982-5. Moore continues

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