I approve of the ideas presented in this blogTO report about one future potential use for Old City Hall.

Toronto's Old City Hall is undeniably beautiful. The Romanesque Revival building at Queen and Bay currently houses the Ontario Court of Justice and City of Toronto Court Services. But the city's looking to repurpose it ( Read more... )

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Torontoist's Erica Ngao makes the case for making Old City Hall a Toronto museum, of Toronto.

As the fourth-largest city in North America and one of the most multicultural cities in the world, Toronto is a place of many stories, with a history that spans 11,000 years. Bringing its collective story together isn’t easy. Current mainstream narratives ( Read more... )

In 2009, I took the below photo of the Old City Hall Cenotaph, sharing it on A Bit More Detail.


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Spacing Toronto's Chris Bateman writes in "How the Eaton Centre nearly wrecked Old City Hall" about Old City Hall's close call.

Old City Hall was completed in 1899 to plans by architect E. J. Lennox. Romanesque Revival design was popular at the time, and so Lennox included an array of arches, columns, and decorative brickwork typical of the style ( Read more... )

Vjosa Isal's report caught my attention.

In at least five years, visitors at Toronto’s Old City Hall could be greeted not by metal detectors at a security screening checkpoint, but shiny new storefronts. The former city hall building could be transformed into a mall, according to a city staff report ( Read more... )

Crowds were skating on the reflecting pond and people wandering about on a very spring-like day.


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What the subject line says.


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