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Even though he denies it, Jeff Low is providing Toronto with a valuable service. In his spare time, Low (or "Mustapha" as he's better known online) recreates vintage photos from the Toronto Archives and then posts the then and now photos at Urban Toronto (a popular Toronto design and architecture forum). Low isn’t the first to recreate Toronto’s vintage photos, or even the best, but his collection is the city’s largest, and since starting in April 2008, he estimates that he’s recreated more than a thousand photos. "Urban Toronto inspired me," Low told Torontoist. "There was already some of that going on on a spotty basis—I decided to make a regularity of it."

A month ago, Torontoist noticed a poster showing an interesting building that was supposed to go up over the Berkeley Church. Sadly (for some), this place was not meant to be. City bylaws got in the way of that stacked behemoth, but have no fear, architecture enthusiasts! The building pictured above has complete city support and will be an undeniably controversial sight at Richmond and Widmer streets on the former lot belonging to Joker Nightclub in the Entertainment District.

Every so often a building is unveiled that causes Torontoist to twitter with preteen enthusiasm: "OMGz!!! WTF is that!? That is sooooo cool!!!" The ROM Crystal is one of them, the AGO is too, and so is the building pictured to the right. That building wasn’t so much unveiled as stumbled upon by Urban Toronto Forum member current, who saw the poster and thought it seemed pretty neat. But wait just one second—where’s the website? Where’s the contact info? Is this for real?

Christopher Hume weighs in on the $20 million design competition run by the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation.

Yesterday we wrote about the destruction of the Inn on the Park, a Modernist landmark that will probably be missed in 20 or 30 years when architectural historians are looking for good examples of Modernism in this city and notice that everything has been torn down. The Star's Christopher Hume was upset about how council dragged its feet on issuing the permit that would've saved the building.

The Toronto blogosphere is abuzz with the Star's "What If" special issue that ran this Sunday. The special issue was a number of think pieces on how the city could be drastically improved.

Torontoist just wrote about how the city is looking for new streetcars this morning. Well we came across this AWESOME video. Kevin, Lori are you watching? In Melbourne, one of the trams was converted in an homage to the W11 line in Karachi. This is sooo much better than the Pizzazz campaign.

Torontoist thinks that Toronto Star writer Andrew Chung was having a bad day when he wrote his lament on the death of Toronto's Chinatown (the one on Spadina) in Sunday's Star.

Observant readers of the Urban Toronto forum pointed out this Aussie ad campaign that asks tourists "Where the bloody hell are you?" We're not sure how the "strong language" will translate in China, Japan, India and Europe where these ads will be translated but in the English speaking world the reception seem to be quite positive.