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Living for the vintage city: Upcycling Bloorcourt and Queen West
Rea McNamara
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Kealan Sullivan spends a lot of time at the local dry cleaners. You could say it's the boardroom of her 69 Vintage Collective empire, where between giant loads of new-old clothes, she's leading Toronto's vintage scene in new directions.
Design
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Sustainability
Queen/King West
The entrepreneurial architect
Heidi McKenzie
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Heather Dubbeldam left the safety of one of Canada's premier architecture firms to follow her own path and start an independent and expanding green design company.
City Building
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Design
Entertainment District
Q&A with Brian Curtner on Toronto's adaptive reuse scene
Bert Archer
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Brian Curtner, a partner with the architecture firm Quadrangle, is one of the leaders of Toronto's adaptive reuse movement. Here he discusses why we should reuse our old buildings instead of tearing them down, and some of the challenges and rewards of doing so.
City Building
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Design
Entertainment District
A bike for Toronto: a Q&A with Curbside's Eric Kamphof
Alexandra Shimo
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Frustrated by the problems and oversight in the bicycle market, an Annex bike store manager designed a bicycle specifically for Toronto's geography and climate, realized he'd found a niche need, and started manufacturing and selling the two-wheeler across North America.
Design
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Sustainability
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Transportation
Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex
Play leads to innovation at Toronto Hacklab
Ivor Tossell
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Part workshop, part tree house, and part revolutionary lair, the Toronto Hacklab is a home for geeks that mixes the urge to create with the ideals of a venerable movement. Also, there's a laser in the bathroom that plays the theme from Super Mario Brothers.
Design
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Research and Innovation
Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal
Locally made and fairly traded.
Carla Lucchetta
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
A Q&A and photo tour of the Fair Trade Jewellery Company where faith, integrity and a family legacy are the forces behind this local ethical business.
Design
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Sustainability
Old fashioned glamour on the Bloor West runway
Rea McNamara
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Lola & Gigi is changing the way we think about fashion and weight while serving a style-savvy niche market.
Design
Bloor West Village
Handsome Clothing
Julia Belluz
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
How young, Toronto-bred entrepreneurs got creative and mastered social media to win a global audience and influence buyers with messages of positivity and peace.
Design
Q&A with Lubo Brezina: Breathing new life into old growth
Paul Gallant
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Furniture-maker Lubo Brezina is busy turning other people's junk into functional art and furniture on Dundas West.
Design
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Sustainability
Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal
Putting Parkdale's artists to work for shelter
Heidi McKenzie
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Design Hope Toronto is raising funds for Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre's new supportive housing complex, Edmond Place, with a grassroots art auction.
City Building
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Design
Parkdale
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