Colophon / Editor

Masthead, editor, and the CityPlace postal desk

Who publishes Spadina & Bremner Quarterly: Dr. Henrik Lindqvist, fifteen years on the Railway Lands, a Toronto postal address, and a plain statement of non-affiliation.

My name is Henrik Lindqvist. I am fifty-one. I am an urban historian and architectural writer living in CityPlace, two blocks west of Bremner Boulevard. For fifteen years I have covered the transformation of the Toronto Railway Lands: leftover tracks, the condominium diagram, the stadium, and the slip-form hexagonal core that still reads, from my kitchen, as a surveyor’s mark on the lake. This quarterly is that beat in magazine form, printed for a screen because that is where the research now starts.

I write as an editor of architecture and city culture, not as a tour desk. The 1970s continuous pour, the Y-shaped buttresses that take the lake fetch, the 351-metre revolving dining room and its seventy-two-minute rotation, the 116-storey exterior roof-walk harness system, the aquarium combinations across the plaza — those are civic objects. I will also tell you when the upper cabin is a cloud tax and when Saturday’s elevator lobby is a bad use of a timed slot. The harbour does not care about itineraries. Neither do these pages.

Spadina & Bremner Quarterly is not affiliated with the tower operator or Canada Lands Company. We never sell tickets, take reservations, or handle payments. If a search advertisement made that loud, the remedy is still the official venue website. I keep a modest campaign so people already looking up the Railway Lands can find the notes. That campaign does not put a till on Iceboat Terrace, and it does not make me an agent of the people who run the lifts.

Postal desk

Letters land at a real CityPlace suite I can walk to without crossing the Gardiner:

Dr. Henrik Lindqvist
Spadina & Bremner Quarterly
15 Iceboat Terrace, Suite 408
Toronto, ON M5V 4A5
Canada

Email: [email protected]
Voice: +1 416 555 0194 (weekdays, 11–16 Eastern; I often let it ring if I am on Bremner watching a hold)

Paper is collected a few times a week. Put a return address on it. Email is faster. I will not open attachments from people I do not know. Paste a description: time of day, wind if you have it, whether the upper cabin was a distinct object or a blur. Do not write to ask me to sell you admission or to “partner” on a resale funnel. There is no booking system here, and there will not be one.

If you are a student of harbour-adjacent urbanism, I will point you at archives and at Environment and Climate Change Canada before I point you at my window. The window is anecdotal. The slip-form record, the pour dates, the mechanical period of the dining floor — those are not. This masthead exists so you know who is responsible for the sentences, and so you have a postal address that is not a post-office box in another province.