It's worth noting that an old, much-deteriorated Patterson neon rooftop sign remained atop the west service wing (replaced by the condo addition) well into the 70s and perhaps even into the 80s--maybe long enough for nascent Queen Street "arts types"...
Also worth considering is the poetic appropriateness of 8 Spadina's tenancy by then, given the long association of the Olivetti name with sleek modern design. And speaking of modernism, one has to be nudged to realize that Scotiabank's curtain wall...
Of course, rightly or (all but probably) wrongly, I can't get those au courant thoughts of Rob Ford out of my mind re Sam McBride's raucousness. Incidentally, McBride was dead by the marked September 21, 1937 date for the middle...
Wasn't 105 Adelaide built for North American Life? (The present Lombard Place, it was built in 1962, became a holdout in the FCP land assemblage, and underwent a Postmodern makeover in 1991 after NAL moved to Yonge + Finch. Correct...
"Maybe it has to do with the 'banalization' of psychogeography: Guy Debord didn't intend for this concept to let people wonder around a city and simply 'notice' things - there's an explicit politics to it (namely, to wrest the 'power'...
Re Campbell House, it's debatable whether "it's better off where it is now than where it was"--at most, we're "used to it". But I reckon that these days, by far the stronger heritage argument would be to keep Campbell in...
Maybe it's a measure of Mount Dennis's backwaterdom, but I find it odd that Tipper's place hasn't been discernably "discovered" by the usual urban-hipster suspects thus far--once you go in, you can *tell* it's someplace special......
I suspect this is a case where if the threat of demolition happened just a millimetre later, it would have been far more of a public protest-and-petition cause celebre--like the Shell/Bulova Tower, only a decade earlier. As it was, the...
Which side's gonna sway'em: the Torontoist piece, or Svend? I rest my case. (Or at least consider that those who'd be swayed by Svend are more likely to be the jerkwater types who think Edgewater-style EIFS jobs are "urban improvements".)...
Rohan, going back to "It's not as though many people thought the sign was nice to look at." look at it this way--when it comes to the bigger picture, those who do (or at least "see the potential"), matter. Because...
