![23.55 Handlebar event [2016.12.12]](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/23.55-Handlebar-event-2016.12.12-1500x600.png)
Opening set for Join Us EIR in the Park at Super-Jet International
Five-to-Midnight live-to-podcast performance #6
OPENING: Join Us EIR in the Park
November 16th to 30th: Super-Jet International Coffee Shop, Toronto
![23.55 performance #5 text [2016.09.18]](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/23.55-performance-session-5-2016.09.18-664x410.jpg)
#BechdelBill ’16, 18 September 2016 at The Station
Five-to-Midnight live-to-podcast performance #5
Practice Session #29
23.55 live mixing session podcast
Practice Session #27
23.55 live mixing session podcast
![The craft neon legibility of Filmores Hotel: a varicoloured beacon from Toronto’s manufacturing age. Today, a fantastic wayfinding landmark. [Idlewild, 17 May 2008]](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008.05.17-Filmores-Neon-take-2-sk-664x410.jpg)
Neon mnemotechny on film, Toronto
Filmores Hotel
![Figure 10. Pending condo development at 50 Wellesley Street East, August 2008, with visible remnants of a just-demolished, four-storey brick office building. As of 2012 2015, this development is not yet built. Branded both as “Plaza” and “50 Wellesley East”, its developers still have a positive opportunity to inscribe the “Plaza” (or “Plaza at 50 Wellesley”) name permanently to the tower and to enhance legibility of the streetscape along Wellesley. Owing to its extended presence for at least four seven years, the “Plaza” name serves already as an effective, if ephemeral, toponym. [Idlewild]](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008.08.08-DSCF3168a-664x410.jpg)
Conclusion of “Mnemotechny in Toronto”
Ephemeral toponyms, streetscape illegibility, and gendering the territories of condo development
![Figure 9. One St. Thomas Street, built 2007–08, is an exceptional case where a new-build condo tower not only preserved a visible toponym as a permanent fixture, but also utilized a cut stone façade reminiscent of early 20th century American architectures, setting its presence apart from its glass box contemporaries. Its only drawback is that St. Thomas Street is not an arterial, and the condo’s permanent awning is only visible by those who find themselves wilfully on the hidden side-street. [Idlewild]](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/DSCF3973a-664x410.jpg)
Discussion on “Mnemotechny in Toronto”
Ephemeral toponyms, streetscape illegibility, and gendering the territories of condo development
![Figure 8. Beyond the glass towers of One Bedford at Bloor and Museumhouse, a third condo tower called “Exhibit” is, as of March 2012, slated for construction. It would be sited next to Museumhouse. There is no indication that this condo tower, whose features negligibly vary from its neighbours, will display its name to the streetscape once construction is complete. If so, it would render this stretch of the Bloor streetscape even more illegible, alien, and hostile to denizens and visitors. [Idlewild]](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/DSCF3971a-664x410.jpg)